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Michael Batchelor is CEO of the Erie Community Foundation
Erie Community Foundation President Mike Batchelor believes that community foundations are ideally positioned to quarterback efforts such as Vital Signs.
“Frankly, we have the money, we have the long-term…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Council on Foundations announced the winners of the 2025 Council Awards, including two new awards - the Excellence in Community Foundation Leadership Award and Building Together Award. The winners include:Distinguished Service Award: Rip Rapson, Kresge Foundation President…
Led by the Council on Foundations Legal Team, this workshop is flexibly organized to ensure that your broad legal questions for administering funds, grants, and community foundation activities are addressed. The legal team will provide technical and practical understanding of complex rules and…
Keri joined Citizens in May of 2016. She is a member of the Corporate Affairs leadership team which sets the strategic direction for Citizens’ Community efforts. Keri develops and oversees the corporate giving process for the company and serves as trustee and principal manager of two…
Long before most of them were old enough to serve, America's young people found their own way to contribute. In the early 1940s, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts across the country threw themselves into the home front effort—going door to door, organizing drives, and rallying their communities around a…
Blistering sunlight broils our small group as we gingerly perch around the edges of the raised bed our hosts have set out for us in front of their hut in Godha Village. We’ve come to visit a few of the 100 ultra-poor women in rural Uttar Pradesh recently employed by our local partner, a…
September represents the start of a new school year, and at the Council our global program has been incredibly busy this month, from disaster response to major programming alongside the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
During this 2017 hurricane season, we have witnessed several storms…
Earlier this week, we held a webinar on tax reform and its effect on corporate foundations, an area that many corporate members have asked about since the beginning of the year. During the webinar, the Council’s Senior Counsel, Suzanne Friday, discussed a range of issues, including a provision that…