The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation gave a $2.3 million grant for College Hill, for the "innovation corridor" leveraging Mercer University's faculty and students to support entrepreneurs in the area.
Mercer President William Underwood said that with the grant, they will build on their past success in implementing the College Hill master plan while joining with Jumpstart America to ramp up the job creation component of the initiative's mission.
Read the Entire Article
A customized collection of news from foundations from around the Web.
Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.