WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to donate the $1.4 million from his Nobel Peace Prize to helping students, veterans’ families and survivors of Haiti’s earthquake, among others, drawing attention to organizations he said “do extraordinary work.”
Obama is giving a total of $750,000 to six groups that help kids go to college, including the Denver-based American Indian College Fund, which will receive $125,000. Fisher House, which provides housing for families with loved ones at Veterans Administration hospitals and is building a new facility in Aurora, will receive $250,000, the White House said Thursday. The Bush-Clinton Haiti Fund will receive $200,000.
Obama is also donating $100,000 to AfriCare, which funds public health programs and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. And $100,000 will go to the Central Asia Institute, which promotes education for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
