August 25, 2010
Marin Community Foundation’s $2 Million Grant Links Schools, Preschools
Marin Independent Journal
By Rob Rogers
8/23/10
Hoping to forge a connection between the county’s public schools and its preschools, the Marin Community Foundation announced $2 million in early education grants Monday. The grants, part of a five-year, $35 million program by the foundation to improve opportunities for underprivileged students, will support projects at nine elementary schools in four Marin districts: Novato, San Rafael, Sausalito Marin City and Shoreline.
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Gates Foundation Awards Brown University $3 Million
The Providence Examiner
By Cheryl Phillips
8/23/10
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded Brown University nearly $3 million to help their program that focuses on keeping more students on track for high school graduation and college or career readiness.
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Nonprofits Face Drop-Off In Giving, Driven By Decrease In Individual Donations, Survey Finds
Washington Post
By Jonathan O’Connell
8/23/10
increasingly looking to donations from individuals to shore up their budgets. But people are giving less frequently and in smaller amounts of money to charities than in the past, according to a survey of executives at 6,800 nonprofits nationally by GuideStar USA, an organization that tracks finances of nonprofit groups.
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How to Incorporate Philanthropy Into Your Business
Inc.
By Alyssa Danigelis
8/23/10
Recently divorced Mike Hannigan was in a grocery store looking for spaghetti sauce when he came across Newman’s Own for the first time. In 1991 he started the office products company Give Something Back and committed to earmarking the company’s profits for nonprofit organizations instead of shareholders or investors.
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Federal Officials Disclose New Details on SIF Selection Process
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Suzanne Perry
8/23/10
Moving to defuse a brewing controversy over how it awarded $50-million in Social Innovation Fund grants last month, the federal government has posted online the applications of the organizations that won the money, along with the ratings and comments they received from reviewers.
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