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The New York Times Company Foundation
conducts a range of philanthropic activities that include: The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund. Each year, the Foundation administers a fund-raising campaign during the holiday season, with daily stories in The Times describing the travail of many of the city's neediest children, disabled and elderly. The campaign each year draws contributions from about 12,000 readers, totaling about $7 million. For five consecutive years, using funds from the Neediest endowment, the Foundation has created a summer jobs program for 1,000 disadvantaged teenagers. The New
York Times College Scholarship Program. Working with
Times writers and editors as jurors, the Foundation each year selects
Times Scholars, students who have overcome exceptional hardship to
achieve excellence in New York City high schools. Each student receives
a four-year college scholarship, mentoring and summer employment. To make a donation, click on: http://www.nycharities.org/donate/c_donate.asp?CharityCode=1004. Campus Weblines. This Web Site, developed with the help of students at Stuyvesant High School, offers a course in journalism and the software needed for students to create school newspapers online. Prior Activities. In 2009, the Foundation suspended two major activities. One was a program in which The Times Company matched gifts, dollar for dollar, by employees and retirees to qualifying nonprofit institutions. The other was a program of grants to domestic organizations in journalism, education, culture, environment and service. The journalism grants included New York Times Institutes for Journalists, week-long immersion courses for writers, editors and producers from around the country on cutting edge subjects like the Age Boom, Billionaires and Frontiers of Brain Research.
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