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Hyattsville Foundation Awards Grants to Local Causes
The Hyattsville Community Foundation gave funds to the Anacostia Watershed Society and the John and Jane Mather Foundation for Sciences and Arts.
On April 7 the Hyattsville Community Foundation announced two grants awarded to local parties.
The first grant went to the for work done inside the city limits, said HCF President Tom Slezak.
The second grant went to the John and Jane Mather Foundation for Sciences and Arts and is intended to benefit young members of either discipline. Mather, together with George F. Smoot, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize in Physics for for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The work was lauded as being foundational to the Big Bang Theory.
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If you would like to make a tax deductible contribution to the Hyattsville Community Foundation, you can do so by mailing it to: the Hyattsville Community Foundation, P.O. Box 152, Hyattsville, MD 20781
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