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The Oklahoma City Community Foundation has created the Haiti Earthquake Assistance Fund for donations to assist the long-term recovery efforts in the Caribbean country’s capital city of Port-Au-Prince, which was hit by an earthquake on Tuesday.

From a TV soap opera advocating savings in the Dominican Republic to banking by motorbike in Ethiopia and India, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s most recent grants to promote global development have a decidedly more creative bent.

An Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist has helped make an important new finding about the genetic roots of prostate cancer.

In December about 300 runners participated in the first Reindeer Run in northwest Oklahoma City. Money raised at the 5k, 10k and one-mile runs was allocated to crisis counseling services for children offered by NorthCare, a behavioral health center based in Oklahoma City.

The George Kaiser Family Foundation has approved grants to more than 100 Tulsa-area social service agencies.

Louis V. Lepak Jr., director of the St. Joseph Counseling Center, retired Dec. 31 after 22 years with Catholic Charities.

Jamie Payne, a Sand Springs native, has joined the Oklahoma State University Foundation as senior director of human resources.

The Salvation Army thought it had received a grand gift ahead of Christmas – a $25,000 check. But the donation turned out to be an expensive hoax that may force the charity to cut back on winter assistance for the needy.

AIDS Walk of Oklahoma City has distributed $43,300 in annual grants to eight nonprofit organizations.

Donna Windel has retired as director of granting for the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.