Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced on Friday that Microsoft is expanding its support of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Inc. with a $25 million software grant. UNCF President and CEO William H. Gray III was on hand at Xavier University, a UNCF school in New Orleans, to accept the donation on behalf of the organization's 39 member institutions across the country. In addition to the software for UNCF, Gates announced that Microsoft is donating 150 Dell computers fully loaded with software to the TRIO Upward Bound program at Xavier University and five New Orleans public schools. Funded by the federal government to help Americans overcome class, social and cultural barriers to higher education, Upward Bound provides the academic strength, skills and motivation necessary for post-secondary education success.
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