Community Foundation Update (9/06/08)
News and personnel announcements from community foundations around the country....
Universities Facing More Pressure to Use Endowment Funds
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) have announced they will convene a group of university administrators, education officials, and financial analysts to discuss the relationship between endowments and tuition costs....
Mint Museum Receives $5 Million From Robert Haywood Morrison Foundation
The largest grant in the foundation's history will be used to cover the increase in costs since the $54 million budget for the new facility was finalized in 2005....
Michael Phelps Establishes Foundation to Promote Healthy Lifestyles, Inspire Dreams
The fourteen-time Olympic gold medal winner will donate the $1 million bonus he received from Speedo for winning eight gold medals in Beijing to the foundation....
Our latest article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review, "Fast Food and the Family Farm," argues for widespread changes to existing food production and distribution systems....
The Northwest Area Foundation's chief program officer argues that hope- fulness is a critical ingredient in community efforts to reduce poverty and improve economic stability....
Yale Environment 360 offers opinion and analysis of global environmental issues written by scientists, journalists, academics, policy makers, and business people....
Gaining Ground donates fresh fruit and vegetables to shelters, food pantries, and meals-on-wheels programs programs throughout Greater Boston and eastern Massachusetts....
A project of Common Good, NewTalk is an online forum featuring a rotating cast of nonpartisan experts discussing America's most pressing problems and challenges....
