Reversing the blight has been a mission of the Hill Youth Action Team (HYAT) since the summer of 2006 when they scanned 40 local properties for abandoned houses, litter and vacant lots on the streets where they live. Their banner message “Save Our Society” still hangs over Howard Avenue and Minor Streets to remind everyone to get involved.

Donors to The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven provided funding for the project (more…)

Maximizing economic opportunity

Those are the watchwords of the continuum of Learning, a community partnership among the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, the United Way of Central Illinois and the Sangamon County Community Foundation.

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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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I just read an article about the Silicon Valley Community Foundation establishing the "Strengthen the Safety Net" fund to assist non profits that provide food and shelter in the San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. These organizations are seeing a dramatic rise in families needing their services due to the economic crisis. As a result the foundation is using this fund to challenge individuals and corporations to donate money; the foundation will match dollar for dollar up to $1 million through the end of this year. Now that's creative philanthropy in a time of crisis.

New Voices Of Philanthropy: Desperate times call for creative measures.

An anonymous donor has made a gift of historic proportions to the Erie community. The Erie Community Foundation has received a $100M gift that the donor designated to benefit 46 local and 5 out of town nonprofit organizations. This is the largest anonymous contribution to a community foundation in the nation.

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The Philanthropy 400 list is typically dominated by national charities, major universities, and big-name cultural institutions.

This year’s rankings, however, include a new group that doesn’t fall into any of these categories.

For the first time, the Erie Community Foundation has made the list — hitting the charts at No. 190.

Erie Community Foundation Hits Big Stage – Outside Erie.

The Nebraska Community Foundation, headquartered in Lincoln, Neb., serves communities, organizations and donors throughout the state. NCF provides financial management, strategic development, education and training to its network of more than 1,800 leaders of 199 local affiliated funds.

NCF has reinvested $76 million in Nebraska and its hometowns since its founding in 1993. NCF is heralded as a national model for rural development philanthropy, which uses charitable giving as a tool for revitalizing rural economies.

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Poudre School District Foundation Board is moving its charitable funds to the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado.

The move allows the foundation to decrease operating costs and increase its efforts on building relationships with donors.

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