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A Weekly Digest from the George W. Bush Presidential Center
October 14, 2022
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School library grant applications open
The Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries is accepting applications for grants to support school libraries, with the goal of encouraging all students to develop a love of reading and learning. Public, private, parochial, magnet, and charter schools that have a library are welcome to apply. Applications close Nov. 30. You can also help us spread that love of reading by sharing this opportunity with the school librarians in your community.
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Education is power for peace and security in Afghanistan
New report by Natalie Gonnella-Platts <[link removed]>, Director of Women’s Advancement at the Bush Institute, and the Bush Institute’s Afghan Education Working Group
Read their recommendations on how we can support the rights and education of Afghan women and girls <[link removed]>[image: arrow]
Gender policy is foreign policy, too
For International Day of the Girl on Oct. 11, Robert McDonald , former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Natalie Gonnella-Platts <[link removed]>, Director of Women's Advancement at the Bush Institute, wrote in Foreign Policy that supporting women and girls internationally is in the best interest of the United States.
Read why women and girls play a large role in promoting free societies <[link removed]>[image: arrow]
Dr. Ben Bernanke recognized for world-changing economic insights with Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Article by Cullum Clark <[link removed]>, Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative Director
Read how Bernanke has inspired significant, lasting improvement in economic policymaking <[link removed]>[image: arrow]
Laura W. Bush Native Texas Park tours now available
Explore the 15-acre park and it's native Texas landscape, which includes 53 wildflower species, 37 grass species, and 974 trees of different species, with a tour guide
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In Case You Missed It
Further News, Analysis, and more from the Bush Center
How to recognize International Day of the Girl <[link removed]> | GMA3 interview
Metra Mehran, a member of the Bush Institute’s Afghan Education Working Group, discusses the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan under Taliban rule and how people can help
Kleptocracy: an invincible (and invisible) enemy <[link removed]> | Forum 2000 podcast
Interview with Jessica Ludwig <[link removed]>, Director of Freedom and Democracy at the Bush Institute
Read about an event with Jim Towey on his book on Mother Teresa <[link removed]>
Holly Kuzmich <[link removed]>, Executive Director of the Bush Institute, interviewed the former advisor to President Bush about his book, To Love and Be Loved
Future of DACA program is uncertain <[link removed]>
Article by Laura Collins <[link removed]>, Director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative
Q&A with Naheed A. Ahmadi, member of the Bush Institute's Afghan Education Working Group <[link removed]>
Ahmadi shares her hope for Afghanistan and her experience as a member of the Afghanistan parliament
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