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An individual has been supporting the education of a child in rural Tanzania for ten years, covering costs related to schooling and well-being. The effort emphasizes the importance of sustained donations in creating long-term benefits for children in underserved areas.
Ray Vetuskey of Webster, New York received a kidney from his mother Betty in a March 1978 transplant at Strong Hospital when he was 16, after dialysis failed to treat his kidney failure. Forty-eight years later, the kidney is still functioning, making Vetuskey the longest-surviving kidney transplant recipient in the hospital's history, according to Dr. Miklos Molnar, director of transplant medical services at URochester Medicine.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman has reversed a planned $25-million contribution to a political action committee supporting AI-friendly candidates. The reversal follows pushback from OpenAI employees who favor tougher AI regulation.
Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest single gift ever made to a U.S. university. About $2 billion will fund a new 35-acre campus in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood for roughly 3,500 students, focused on areas like health, national security and energy, with construction starting next year. The remaining funds will split between renaming Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh computer science program after Griffin and other unspecified campus projects.
Goodwill accepts a wide range of used electronics at its donation centers and routes them through internal programs designed to keep them out of landfills rather than being sold or scrapped haphazardly. The nonprofit's process reflects the absence of any federal e-waste recycling framework in the United States, filling a gap left by national policy. The UN reports global e-waste generation reached 32 billion kilograms in 2022, an 82 percent rise since 2010.
The Imagination Library, Dolly Parton's free monthly book program for young children, is expanding to reach 157,000 additional children. The expansion comes about a month after Parton's death, as concerns grow over declining early childhood literacy rates.
A user examining Neovim's public donation footer discovered a Bitcoin address that received a 10 BTC donation in 2023, now worth roughly $800,000. Blockchain records show the project last moved funds from that address in 2019, suggesting the large donation has gone unnoticed or unused for years.