Everyone wants to know — needs to know — whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be able to continue giving tens of millions of dollars to local charities. But nobody knows, maybe not even the staff at Fannie Mae and the Freddie Mac Foundation, maybe not even administrators at the Federal Housing Finance Agency who are reviewing the companies’ giving.

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The Community Foundation of the Ozarks is pleased to announce that the Upper White River Basin Foundation has successfully reached its fund raising goal for CFO’s Stewardship Ozark Initiative. Dr. John Moore, executive director of the Upper White River Basin Foundation, reported that his foundation had raised $100,000 for its organizational endowment and will receive a $100,000 matching grant from the Stewardship Ozarks Initiative. (more…)

The Northern New York Community Foundation has awarded $625,832 in scholarships to 333 students for the 2008-2009 academic year. 

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