While Old Bill’s organizers continue to tally community donations, members of valley character group Save Historic Jackson Hole, estimate their organization has already taken in more in private money than it received last year from Old Bill’s. SHJH was excluded from Old Bill’s 2008 for running what event organizer the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole said was a negative ad against another participating nonprofit, the Jackson Hole Community Housing Trust.

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The Community Foundation of East Mississippi hosted a meeting Friday to discuss childhood obesity in Mississippi.

The conversation was guided by Therese Hanna, executive director of the Center for Mississippi Health Policy, and Anne Travis, executive director of the Bower Foundation.

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“I didn’t know as much about LOGAN as I wished I did,” photographer Scott Bourdon says, “but a lot of people I saw there, I had seen before.”

That’s when Bourdon, the South Bend-based photographer whose 20-year-old daughter Haley is both deaf and developmentally disabled, knew the assignment would be profoundly personal.

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THROUGHOUT the history of the Marin Community Foundation, a defining theme of our work has been the promotion of equity and social justice: giving people from all backgrounds and circumstances the chance to thrive, often in the face of major obstacles.

Equity and social justice per se are not program areas at the foundation. They are, even more fundamentally, core values that pervade all our activities – our grantmaking, our efforts to bring people together to solve problems, and, when called for, our advocacy efforts.

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But bucking perceptions that high levels of immigration are jeopardizing national cohesion, the data showed that today's immigrants, like those before them, are embracing an American identity. In Los Angeles County, for instance, the proportion of native Spanish speakers fluent in English increased to 51.4% in 2007 from 44.6% in 2000. The share of naturalized citizens among the foreign-born grew to 43.3% from 38% over that time.

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The Oklahoma City Community Foundation Board of Trustees recently approved $132,044 in community program grants to 24 metropolitan area charitable organizations, including some Edmond facilities.

“We are fortunate to have loyal donors who consistently support our charitable organizations,” said Nancy B. Anthony, executive director. “Their generosity enables us to provide growth and assistance to numerous organizations in the community.”

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