Residents who want to give now have a new resource where they can find charitable organizations in one place.

The binder "A Community of Giving" was given Tuesday to community leaders from various professional backgrounds — including banking, law and estate planning — which can be shared with their clients.

A copy of the binder will be available for public viewing at the Baxter County Public Library, library officials said.

The book includes information about giving opportunities with Arkansas State University Mountain Home, the Baxter County Library Foundation, the Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation and the Twin Lakes Community Foundation.

Area groups create comprehensive resource for charitable opportunities | baxterbulletin.com | The Baxter Bulletin.

The estate of the former president of the Waupaca Foundry has bequeathed $1 million to support education in the Waupaca area.

The gift to the Waupaca Area Community Foundation from the estate of Don Brunner will be treated as an endowment and is expected to generate $50,000 a year to be used for scholarships and the educational advancement of "young men and women who merit and are financially or otherwise in need of such assistance."

The Waupaca Area Community Foundation is an affiliate of the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region.

$1M gift benefits Waupaca students | Postcrescent.com | Appleton Post-Crescent.

The Community Foundation of the Virginias, Inc. has raised more money than ever before.

Members of the foundation announced that they have raised 144-thousand dollars.

That money was distributed through 36 grants and 34 scholarships between both Mercer and Tazewell County.

A Community Foundation Celebrates a Year of Success – WVNS-TV.

The Community Foundation of Broward received the largest charitable donation in Broward County’s history.

Mary Mackenzie, the founder of Motherhood Maternity, left nearly her entire estate, with an estimated value of $12 million, to the Foundation. She passed away this summer at age 89.

Broward’s Community Foundation Receives $12 Million Gift – News- msnbc.com.

The University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s Lyon Arboretum has been awarded $105,000 over 3 years by the Hawai‘i Community Foundation for expansion of its collections of culturally significant native Hawaiian plants in its display gardens, greenhouses, and seed and tissue culture laboratory facilities. “Because of our unique ability to propagate such plants, we will not only be serving as an important storage, or ‘bank’ to safeguard important culturally-significant plants, but will also provide a distribution center for other organizations,” says Dr. Christopher Dunn, the Arboretum’s director.

News from the University of Hawaii 10-Campus System.

The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation announced a $25 million grant today to Portland State University. The $25 million grant is the largest grant in the history of the Foundation and the largest grant in Portland State University history. The University has chosen to dedicate the funds exclusively to the goal of strengthening its role as a national leader in sustainability research and education.

“Our goal is to raise even more funds for Portland State University programs and to raise even greater local, national and international awareness and support for this outstanding University,” said Charles ‘Chuck’ Putney, a Miller Foundation director and alumnus of Portland State. “We feel this grant can have a great impact at Portland State.”

Miller Foundation Makes Historic $25 Million Challenge Grant to Support Sustainability at Portland State University – Industry News – EDC Magazine.