Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey Discuss Born This Way Foundation
March 1, 2012
Lady Gaga describes the Born This Way Foundation's emphasis on promoting safe environments for youth, fostering the skills needed to maintain that sense of safety, and providing opportunities to put those skills to use for social good. Born This Way Foundation, a MacArthur Foundation grantee, will use digital outreach strategies to empower young people and combat bullying.
The $31 million multilateral, public-private initiative – named in honor of the late Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens – hopes to achieve the largest increase in people-to-people educational exchanges between the United States and the Middle East. Read More
The competition, dubbed Playlists for Learning, will offer year-long development grants totaling $700,000 to create innovative learning playlists that close the opportunity gap and help learners succeed in the 21st century. Read More
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