Google has given an update on what its Google Foundation is doing. The charitable group, promised as part of its IPO, has been funded initially with $90 million and has already made donations to a fund to fight global poverty, another to help small businesses in developing countries and research to prevent child deaths by poor water quality, among others. Unfortunately, the Google Foundation site at Google.org site still says it will be the "future site" as it has since April and lacks any helpful information, not even a link at least to the Google Grants program that Google itself...
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