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LiberalElite

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Mon May 25, 2015, 08:44 PM May 2015

NYC-based investment firm helps Detroit residents pay water bills, avoid shutoff [View all]

Source: Newsday

A New York investment banking company has donated $1 million to a fund designed to help low-income Detroit residents pay their water bills and avoid shutoffs that drew United Nations attention to the city last fall.

The Heat and Warmth Fund announced Sunday that Manhattan-based Miller Buckfire & Co. made the largest gift the nonprofit group ever received from anyone other than a utility company.

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/new-york-city-based-investment-firm-helps-detroit-residents-pay-water-bills-avoid-shutoffs-1.10472175

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