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On Monday, DRF announced a $10 million grant to fund an entrepreneurship initiative to benefit the residents of the City of Danville and Pittsylvania County in Virginia and Caswell County in North Carolina, the foundation’s Dan River Region footprint. In a global economy, investment in those…
Following the success of Kentucky’s inaugural Foundations 101 meeting, I was part of a group of several funders in Alabama who joined together earlier this month to reach out to the local staffs of our elected officials for our own 101 session.
Unlike the barnstorming meetings some of us…
Torrey Van Antwerp DeKeyser is executive director of The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama.
Nancy Henry is a member of The Patterson Foundation’s staff. This blog originally appeared on The Patterson Perspective, a blog by The Patterson Foundation.
After a lot of encouragement from the field, the IRS is ready to issue new regulations regarding program-related investments (PRIs). The regulations don’t change the rules governing PRIs. Foundations will still be able to invest creatively to advance their mission, as well as…
Peter Berliner is managing director of Mission Investors Exchange. He is one of the featured speakers at the July 26 webinar, “Key Strategies to Engage Your Foundation in Mission Investing.”
El Pomar Foundation began preparing to respond to one of the worst natural disasters in Colorado history 10 years before the first sign of smoke in Waldo Canyon. In June 2002, the Hayman fire ripped through four Colorado counties, consuming more than 137,000 acres. While those flames were still…
Josie Burke is director of communications for El Pomar Foundation. For more information on disaster grantmaking visit the Council’s Disaster Center.
In an earlier post, Susanne Norgard, executive director of The Community Foundation of Mendocino County (where I serve as board president), mentioned that no board member “walks into a community foundation fully understanding what we do and the impact we can make.” She’s right:…
Jim Mayfield is board president at The Community Foundation of Mendocino County.