Habitat for Humanity's Cars for Homes has raised more than $10 million for the organization's affiliates since the program's national rollover in 2005.
Cars for Homes is a national vehicle donation program that gives donors a quick and easy way to donate cars, trucks, boats and RVs. Funds earned through the sales of donated vehicles are distributed to affiliates based on the zip code of the donor. SHELIA POOLE
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Four Atlanta area schools have been awarded Lowe’s Toolbox-for-Education grants from Lowe’s Charitable and Education Foundation. The grants help fund parent-initiated school improvements. They include: $2,000 to Atlanta’s Kennedy Middle School for a vegetable garden; $2,775 to Canton’s Creekland Middle School for band instrument storage; and $5,000 and $3,000, respectively, to Gainesville’s McEver Elementary School and Tadmore Elementary School. McEver’s project is an arts academy greenhouse, and Tadmore’s is an outdoor garden classroom. NANCY BADERTSCHER
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday announced grants for six state fish and wildlife agencies to conserve Species of Greatest Conservation Need.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources is among the recipients for its Multistate Sandhills/Upland Longleaf Ecological Restoration Project to restore over 51,775 acres of longleaf forest in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi by prescribed fire, removing invasive species and hardwoods and planting native longleaf pines.
Federal funds awarded were $981,050, with a non-federal match of $552,819. ANDRIA SIMMONS
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