November 30, 2010
Arizona Community Foundation Awards Grants to Phoenix Non-Profits
The Arizona Republic
By Sadie Jo Smokey
11/29/10
The Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) announced that it awarded more than $1 million to fund 11 projects around the state. By 2013, more than 600 apartments and single-family homes will be built, redeveloped or rehabilitated and sold with seed money from ACF.
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Cherokee Foundation Focuses on Capacity
Philanthropy Journal
By Ret Boney
11/29/10
Since its creation in 2000, the Cherokee Preservation Foundation has been intent on building the capacity of the Qualla Boundary and its Cherokee inhabitants, as well as surrounding counties in western North Carolina.
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Central New York Philanthropy Center Opens
The Post-Standard
By James T. Mulder
11/29/10
A downtown Syracuse landmark built in 1917 as a private club for college-educated men begins a new chapter as a hub for local charitable groups. The building has been transformed into the Central New York Philanthropy Center, a new home and meeting place for nonprofits. The Central New York Community Foundation bought the building in 2009 for $1 million and has spent $3.5 million renovating it.
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Richard Goldman, San Francisco Philanthropist, Dies at 90
San Francisco Chronicle
By Carolyne Zinko
11/29/10
Richard Goldman, a philanthropist whose annual environmental prize is considered one of the world’s top ecological awards, died Monday of natural causes at his home in San Francisco. He was 90.
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Much of Aid for Haiti is Still Unspent
USA Today
By Marisol Bello
11/29/10
Ten months after the magnitude-7 earthquake that killed 230,000 people and destroyed at least 60% of Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, some relief agencies have not spent the bulk of the donations they raised after the disaster. They say they want to use the rest for the country’s long-term recovery, but they can’t get rolling because roads are torn up, government agencies aren’t functioning, and the economy is at a standstill.
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A Facebook Founder Begins a Social Network Focused on Charities
The New York Times
By Jenna Wortham
11/30/10
Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook and the chief digital organizer for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, knows a thing or two about building online communities. Now he is applying his expertise to a new venture called Jumo, which aims to connect people with nonprofits and charitable organizations.
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