21.   About half the grants go to U.S. causes, including aid to victims of hurricanes, floods, fires and tornadoes.

22.   All grants went to organizations in the city, and Astor visited every grant recipient.

23.   Beltran said the grant would likely go to the Philippine Institute of Developmental Studies which would conduct study on ways to ease effects of the currency crisis.

24.   In India, grants have gone to research on alternative sources of energy, and helping finance partnerships in which U.S. energy providers share expertise with local companies.

25.   One grant will go to the Rwanda-based organization African Rights to support genocide survivors there.

26.   They say a failure rate of around five per cent of recipients is acceptable -- especially since many grants went to businesses in depressed economic regions with high unemployment.

27.   The EU grant will go toward education and teaching as well as health and hospitals, the agency said.

28.   The grant goes to the newly formed Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust at the University of Cambridge.

29.   The grant will go on equipment and laboratories in Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Israel, they said.

30.   The French aid will support four aviation, telecommunication and textile projects while the British grant will go to a project aimed at raising agriculture productivity.