October 30, 2009

Community group, Gates Foundation team up to grant $150K
Yakima Herald-Republic (Yakima, Wash.)
By Erin Snelgrove
10/29/09
Through a partnership between the Yakima Valley Community Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $150,000 in grants will be awarded to regional nonprofits by Jan. 1.
The funding will be used to help prevent gang violence and strengthen food distribution [...]

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October 29, 2009

Habitat for Humanity Introduces First Home in Marin County
Reuters
10/27/09
…The Marin Community Foundation is providing a start-up grant of $250,000 to help launch the program in Marin. "Habitat’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program is a win-win solution not only for working families in Marin, but also for the entire community as Habitat helps to transform blighted properties into [...]

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October 28, 2009

Beyond filling gaps: Philanthropy moves to guiding economic development
Crain’s Detroit Business (subscription required)
Sherri Begin Welch
10/25/09
…Ford Foundation offered one of its largest-ever economic development grants — $25 million — to spur additional foundation investment in an initiative to help restore Southeast Michigan to a leadership position in the global economy.
The Battle Creek-based W.K. Kellogg Foundation provided [...]

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October 27, 2009

Judith Rodin: Rockefeller Foundation Head Changes the Charity and the World
U.S. News & World Report
By Dan Gilgoff
10/22/09
Feeding Africa. Bracing the world for climate change. Rebuilding New Orleans. The Rockefeller Foundation’s goals were lofty enough before the stock market collapse wiped out a quarter of its roughly $4 billion endowment. But Judith Rodin, the foundation’s president, [...]

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