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The White House announced the 10 charities where President Obama will donate the winnings from his Nobel Peace Prize. Among them is the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund to help with recovery from the massive earthquake earlier this year.

"These organizations do extraordinary work in the United States and abroad helping students, veterans and countless others in need. I'm proud to support their work." Obama said in a statement.

$250,000 to Fisher House

Fisher House is a national non-profit organization that provides housing for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and VA medical centers.

$200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund

In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, President Obama asked former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to create the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund to raise funds for long-term relief efforts in Haiti.

$125,000 to College Summit

College Summit is a national non-profit organization that partners with elementary and middle schools and school districts to strengthen college-going culture and increase college enrollment rates, so that all students graduate from high school career and college-ready.

$125,000 to the Posse Foundation

The Posse Foundation is a national non-profit organization that identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes. Posse's college and university partners award Posse Scholars four-year, full-tuition leadership scholarships. The scholars graduate at a rate of 90 percent.

$125,000 to the United Negro College Fund

The United Negro College Fund plays a critical role in enabling more than 60,000 students each year to attend college through scholarship and internship programs.

$125,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) is the nation's leading Hispanic scholarship organization, providing the Hispanic community more college scholarships and educational outreach support than any other organization in the country. In its 34 year history, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund has awarded close to $280M in scholarships to more than 90,000 students in need.

$125,000 to the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation

A non-profit organization funded by foundations and companies, ALEF supports and enables young men and women from Appalachia to pursue higher education though scholarship and leadership curriculum.

$125,000 to the American Indian College Fund

The American Indian College Fund transforms Indian higher education by funding and creating awareness of the unique, community-based accredited Tribal Colleges and Universities, offering students access to knowledge, skills, and cultural values which enhance their communities and the country as a whole. The Fund disburses approximately 6,000 scholarships annually for American Indian students seeking to better their lives through higher education. The Fund also provides support for tribal college needs, ranging from capital support to cultural preservation curricula.

$100,000 to AfriCare

AfriCare was founded in 1970 and has more projects in Africa than any other U.S. based charity, reaching communities in 25 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its programs address needs in three principal areas: health and HIV/AIDS; food security and agriculture; and water resource development.

$100,000 to the Central Asia Institute

The Central Asia Institute promotes and supports community-based education and literacy, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Institute's co-founder, Greg Mortenson, was also a Nobel Peace Prize nominee this year, whose book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time, recounts his attempt to successfully establish dozens of schools and promote girls' education in rural Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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March 11, 2010 3:44 PM   

It covers the major the ethnic groups. So no one should be offended. Oh Wait, no Islam/muslin organizations.

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March 11, 2010 3:56 PM    in reply to natal

The Central Asia Institute may be run by a non-Muslim, although staffed by dozens of them. Nevertheless, it is doing enormous good educating girls, supporting teachers, and bringing clean water into the worst centers of violence and extremism in the world today. Greg Mortenson for the Peace Prize in 2011!

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March 11, 2010 3:57 PM    in reply to natal

Not directly, perhaps, but Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute certainly works for the benefit of Muslim communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Mortenson says that educating the girls in Islamic societies is especially critical to fighting Islamist terrorism, because young Islamic men cannot honorably undertake a suicide mission without their mothers' permission. The more education Muslim mothers have, the less likely they are to approve such things and the more likely they are to discourage it. It's one reason, he says, that radical Islamist leaders are so adamantly opposed to the education of women.

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March 11, 2010 3:58 PM    in reply to natal

what do you call the central asia institute then?

for crying out loud! did you see any specifically christian or buddhist groups get named?

moan moan moan...

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March 11, 2010 3:49 PM   

As a progressive long ago disillusioned with this man, I have to say this is one of the grandest gestures I could imagine anyone making, and it goes a long way to restoring my regard for the man.

http://alltogethernow.org

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March 11, 2010 3:59 PM    in reply to Dale C.

That's good news. He is a man of great integrity. I think you may have been to hasty in your disillusionment.

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March 11, 2010 7:30 PM    in reply to Dale C.

Disillusioned in how long? What sort of expectations did you have... I mean real expectations with how glacially the government works. did you think he would do it all on his own in two weeks? There's some weird disconnect between what you deem yourself, a progressive and other Dems who seem grounded in the fact that yes, against the tide he is facing and the withering daily fire of a hostile minority party, that he is actually doing well and has had the cool he has maintained keep a steady hand on the tiller. I'm a university professor and feel as if progressive fits my belief system and what I want to see done in the country after 8 years of stagnation, but if youre a member of that club, then fuck that. Youre like Palin...take your ball and pout and go home. I see that happen in here in arguments between progs and dems/libs whatever the fucking title. But youre all pansies...you have no stamina. You have all quit in some way or another. Gee, what a gracious compliment you extend to Obama over his charitable gifts. Why dont you extend some patience and reality. Or does that expenditure of energy cost you too much ego?

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March 11, 2010 7:49 PM    in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe

good post...

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March 11, 2010 8:45 PM    in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe

Dude, lighten up - Dale was just saying he had become disillusioned with President Obama - a lot of us Obama supporters, to one degree or another, have had some disillusionment with our President. It's called being human - not everyone has the clear eye for the long game as you do.

However, that still does not change the fact that today's announcement is a great thing. I'm very proud of our President.

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March 11, 2010 9:16 PM    in reply to Jack of All Tirades

Jack,
The thing you fail to see is the long game. This is the first year...and again, what expectations did you have for this guy? It's as if you all thought the thousands of fuck-ups by Bush would disappear or be rescinded in a week. You all need to lighten up in how you posit yourselves. These pages are full of the most idiotic bullshit, pissing and moaning and internecine fights and that's not even counting the trolls, it's the people who voted for him and a year later think he is a corporate whore, or a weak sister on this or a sell out on that, or think a narcissistic little shitbird like Dennis Kucinich deserves to be canonized. This term Obamabot is insulting, and a misnomer. There is no blind naivete propelling people who have hope in him, it's just more grounded in reality. It takes patience. It's called 'Hurry up and Wait'...it's how government works. If you all wanted a 'drive-thru gimme gimme' solution, youre voting for something in this man that doesnt exist. This isnt a fast food president. You see what a fast food intellect got us the last 8 years. Or do you want a Democratic Bush? Want a law trampling piece of shit?
Have some stamina, have some backbone. Have some fucking patience. Lighten up on people who back him and havent bailed.

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March 11, 2010 9:26 PM    in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe

I think we're on the same side on this - people are coming around - but we've got to be patient with them as well.

I agree; this will take time - that's how Obama works - Andrew Sullivan has likened him to the Road Runner and the Republicans Wiley Coyote. They'll overreach - that's what they're doing now - and that's what some people are waking up to.

The problem is the MSM is all about instant gratification - and that's what the public has been trained for. I'm in the middle of a book about the future of the US (3 Billion New Capitalists) and the author takes the US to task for not having an economic policy; meanwhile jobs are being outsourced to China and India and adding to our trade deficit. That's just starting to come home to roost. What can't go on won't.

Why? Because China and India have thought long and hard about how which direction they want for their respective countries. In the US, that's called 'picking winners and losers' and is considered 'socialist'. Try explaining that to Joe Sixpack who just got laid off from GM and just joined the tea-party.

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March 11, 2010 9:45 PM    in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe

Bravo!!!!

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March 11, 2010 9:07 PM    in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe

I love Marinus' comments, and totally agree with them. I can't believe the extent to which liberals and progressives are out of touch with this country's conservative reality and how this government function. It is only an act of total self destructiveness not to support one of the best leaders this country has ever had. Obama needs and deserves our support, not some entitled disappointment because the left can't always get what it wants when it wants it.

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March 11, 2010 10:00 PM    in reply to susanbodnar

I agree with you and Marinus. I'm a big fan of this President. I guess I've been around long enough to know that change doesn't happen overnight. Everything takes time - the key is to keep working at it. I can't understand progressives who can't understand that. He is trying to change an entrenched system and a republican party who only objective is to destroy him and too many conservadems who are about as bad as the republicans. He can't do it on his own and he needs his supporters to fight with him and for him.

I will spend whatever i have to spend to make sure he and the dems get re-elected because the alternative is not an alternative.....

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March 11, 2010 4:01 PM   

Way to go Mr. Pres!!!

I don't know of any republicans who have won the nobel prize but I'd be willing to bet they didn't give it to charity

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March 11, 2010 6:03 PM    in reply to lousgirl84

Henry Kissinger is a Republican. He reportedly donated his prize money to scholarships for the children of U.S. servicemen killed in Vietnam.

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March 11, 2010 6:45 PM    in reply to Forestdweller

Yuck@#$%%% But thanks for the information....

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March 11, 2010 4:17 PM   

I was kinda hoping for an ACORN donation just to mess with the wingers. Alas, Obama is much classier than I.

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March 11, 2010 4:32 PM   

"I don't know of any republicans who have won the nobel prize but I'd be willing to bet they didn't give it to charity"

The last (and only) Republican president to win a Nobel Peace Prize was Theodore Roosevelt, in 1906. No idea what he did with the money.

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March 11, 2010 4:57 PM    in reply to pstamler

Thank you!!! He probably used it to go hunting and kill game....

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March 11, 2010 5:02 PM   

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/nobelportsmouth.htm

Roosevelt donated it to WWI relief efforts. He said taking it would be like being paid to save a drowning man.

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March 11, 2010 5:10 PM    in reply to mousethief

Thank you. and good for Teddy!!!

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March 11, 2010 9:16 PM    in reply to mousethief

Today Teddy Roosevelt would be drummed out of the Republican Party - of course, he probably would have left out of disgust long before that. While a lot of his opinions and ideas aren't exactly enlightened in this day and age, he was quite ahead of his time, especially with helping to found our national parks.

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March 11, 2010 6:38 PM   

Off topic! More proof that the narrative that President Obama hasn't accomplished anything is completely false and that we should trust his decisions! http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aeSenIUvpSK0&pos=10

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March 11, 2010 8:14 PM    in reply to celldumceen

Of course its false but the problem is the MSM gives him no credit - none - zilch- nada. they aren't interested in his accomplishments and instead love to highlight the failures because they can get more rethug talking heads on their shows and drive up the ratings.

The democrats won the election, but washington is still run by the thugs - they control the media and therefore the message.

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March 11, 2010 8:19 PM    in reply to celldumceen

Thank you for that refreshing read. I wonder how many republicans have crossed bloomberg off their party list now?

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March 11, 2010 10:02 PM    in reply to bluesplashy

Good point

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March 11, 2010 6:41 PM   

Watch Republicans criticize him for not donating to "conservative causes".

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March 11, 2010 6:56 PM   

I consult for one of the recipients and I cannot tell you how honored we are to receive such a generous gift that will go to helping a great many deserving students. I am beyond thrilled. He made some very thoughtful and wise choices for the entire prize. He is such an incredibly good man.

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March 11, 2010 8:16 PM    in reply to gpleigh

Yes he is. I agree with you 100% but watch out - if you like Obama around here, the angry independents and progressives will call you out as an o bamabot, a dittohead, an apologist and a worshipper.

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March 12, 2010 2:31 AM   

why do people say he shouldn't have got the peace prize?

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March 12, 2010 2:31 AM   

why do people say he shouldn't have got the peace prize?
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