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Six-thousand dollars to Angela Deleon and $10,000 to Inkwell's Treasurer, Joanne Kendall in research grants. There were 19 $500 grants (a $9,500 total) and 2 of $1,000, ($2,000) totaling $27,500, as declared.

Interesting enough, news reports indicate Angela Deleon was the woman who first called Gates to tell him about Obama mentioning his name.

See here:

HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR: ...I was having dinner with a friend on the upper east side in a little private Italian restaurant and all of a sudden I thought my blackberry was going to explode. And th...

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Six-thousand dollars to Angela Deleon and $10,000 to Inkwell's Treasurer, Joanne Kendall in research grants. There were 19 $500 grants (a $9,500 total) and 2 of $1,000, ($2,000) totaling $27,500, as declared.

Interesting enough, news reports indicate Angela Deleon was the woman who first called Gates to tell him about Obama mentioning his name.

See here:

HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR: ...I was having dinner with a friend on the upper east side in a little private Italian restaurant and all of a sudden I thought my blackberry was going to explode. And the first call...it was from Angela...Angela DeLeon...[saying] Barack Obama just mentioned you in his news conference...

Meanwhile, according to the report below, Joanne Kendall who received $10,000 from the charity, is Gates' assistant, as well as the Treasurer of Inkwell Foundation, Inc.

See here:

Joanne Kendall, Gates' assistant, said that the professor was away from Cambridge for the summer filming a documentary and would only be making periodic returns. Gates could not be reached for comment.

When it does give grants, it seems to stay pretty close to home, ... for the most part, Gates' employees and associates at Harvard. I didn't realize working at Harvard, or for Gates, qualifies one as a charitable cause. But perhaps it does, or he's only interested in encouraging academic interest among a rather tight-knit looking group and simply banking the rest.

THE PURPOSE OF THE FOUNDATION IS TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS AND TO PROMOTE PROGRAMS THAT EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND ENCOURAGE ACADEMIC INTEREST REGARDING AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE, ART, HISTORY, AND CULTURE.

Gates Revises Tax Return Based On Blog Post

Questions about Inkwell Foundation emerged over the weekend, part of a tsunami of attention Gates has received since July 16, when he was arrested at his home by a police officer responding to a report about a possible burglary in progress.

It appears to have gotten someone's attention. Via ProPublica. Many thanks to Joe Culligan at Web of Deception for his work that made it possible. Joe also contacted ProPublica directly at some point. And $6,000 to his fiancee? How convenient!

Gates volunteered that the foundation's second-largest grant, for $6,000, went to his fiancée, Angel...

Gates Revises Tax Return Based On Blog Post

Questions about Inkwell Foundation emerged over the weekend, part of a tsunami of attention Gates has received since July 16, when he was arrested at his home by a police officer responding to a report about a possible burglary in progress.

It appears to have gotten someone's attention. Via ProPublica. Many thanks to Joe Culligan at Web of Deception for his work that made it possible. Joe also contacted ProPublica directly at some point. And $6,000 to his fiancee? How convenient!

Gates volunteered that the foundation's second-largest grant, for $6,000, went to his fiancée, Angela DeLeon, who was also on Inkwell's board from 2005 to 2006. Gates said he recused himself from the vote on DeLeon's grant, which was for a project translating documents from Spanish and Dutch about the slave trade to Mexico.