U.S. President Barak Obama has designated 10 charities to receive the $1.4 million award money that came with the Nobel Prize he received last year.
In a statement issued by the White House this week, the president named 10 organizations, many of them education groups, that will receive a share of the money.
Mr. Obama said the organizations do extraordinary work with students, veterans and countless others in the United States and abroad.
The president designated the largest amount, $250,000, to Fisher House, a non-profit organization that provides housing for families of patients receiving care at military and veterans medical centers.
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