The fundraiser, spearheaded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and facilitated by a donation platform known as Razoo, matches gifts proportionately so that all community giving is maximized.

While the Greater Milwaukee Foundation has not outlined a specific fundraising goal for the day, the organization hopes to exceed last year’s $3 million pot of donations, according to Ellen Gilligan, president and chief executive officer of the foundation.

“We would hope that our community’s generosity would be more expansive than last year, but we don’t set a specific goal,” Gilligan said.

Through Match Day, donors can log onto www.matchdaymke.org and direct a minimum of $10 to the agency or agencies they want to support. Donations are then matched proportionately according to the total collected by each organization during the day.

The fundraiser’s matching element is made possible by the generosity of Greater Milwaukee Foundation partners and supporters that, in addition to many of the foundation’s longtime donors, includes United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County; Brewers Community Foundation, Inc.; The Ceres Foundation; The Faye McBeath Foundation; and Meijer.

This year’s Match Day organizations are: Advocates of Ozaukee; Cathedral Center; Center for Veterans Issues; Community Advocates, Inc.; Daystar Inc.; Family Promise of Washington County; Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin; Food Pantry of Waukesha County; Friends of Abused Families; Guest House of Milwaukee; Hebron House of Hospitality; Hope Center Inc.; Hope House of Milwaukee; Hunger Task Force, Inc.; Milwaukee Rescue Mission; Pathfinders Milwaukee; Sojourner Family Peace Center; The Salvation Army Milwaukee County; The Womens Center; and Walkers Point Youth and Family Center.

The majority of organizations involved are agencies that the Greater Milwaukee Foundation has had a history of supporting through its Basic Needs Fund.

Since introducing Match Day to Milwaukee in 2012, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation has used the fundraiser to draw attention and dollars to nonprofits whose services fulfill basic needs. “So I think people are drawn by the compelling nature of the organizations supported.”

That success has also emerged from the fundraiser’s matching element as well as from the ease of its giving platform, Gilligan said.

“The idea of giving up your Starbucks for the day and going online and making a difference for a hungry child or a victim of domestic violence or a teenage runaway is compelling and because it’s so easy (to donate) I think it makes a difference for people,” Gilligan said.

Match Day’s previous three events generated more than $7.6 million, according to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and welcomed a wealth of new donors to participating organization’s donor bases.

Last year, a third of Match Day donors were new donors to the organizations they aided, according to Gilligan.

“So (Match Day) really broadens the base of support and understanding among these organizations and the work they do in our community,” she said.

The 2015 fundraiser, which will also include a variety of social media promotions and competitions, will begin at 12 a.m.

I created the foundation to help women and children around the globe. With women being educated in these regions, I believe that there is more of a chance for peace in the future.

How does your experience as a successful entrepreneur inform your work as a philanthropist?
I learned that hard work and perseverance are what it takes to be successful. I started Pars Equality Center, a community foundation in 2010 to support the full integration of Iranian and Americans in the United States to create a more just and compassionate community in which Iranians of all cultures and beliefs can participate. I realized early on that every other minority group from Asians to Latinos have an organization to bring together their community.

The Iranian-American community has always been somewhat segmented, and to help each other, we need to come together and work in unity. Full Cycle Energy Fund’s mission is to retrofit traditional electric generation plants from high cost, polluting fuels to lower cost and environmentally friendly fuels derived from MSW (Municipal Solid Waste). We are also investing in new plants that are highly advanced, cleaner, safer and better for our planet.

How does your experience as a successful entrepreneur inform your work as a philanthropist?
The skills and strategy needed to grow a successful and profitable enterprise are the same skills and expertise I apply to giving back and my philanthropic efforts.

What are the long-term plans for your work?
While politicians waste time fighting over how to balance environmental regulation and economic development, pollution from fossil fuel use and increasing amounts of municipal waste are harming public health and our ecological systems worldwide. My goal is to eradicate the need for fossil fuels forever by turning municipal waste into clean fuel that can power communities on a global scale never achieved before. “A few years ago, we set out to create a company that infuses philanthropy into everyday items to help save lives around the world,” shares Bell. To distribute the treatments, This Bar Saves Lives has partnered with FIMRC (Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children) who have been working hard to help the over 200 million people suffering from malaria worldwide. This center will help women acquire necessary job-related skills in order to improve their lives, and ultimately their communities. Between 1960 and 2013 the United States accumulation of municipal waste rose dramatically from 88 million tons to over 251 million tons and AlHusseini knew that by transforming this waste into clean, valuable fuel could transform how we handle waste forever. With the use of highly advanced technology, AlHusseini became founder and managing partner of Full Cycle Energy Fund the fund that finances and owns projects that convert waste into fuel that can be used to power communities around the world. By using gasification in their model, but have also improved upon the available technology that already exists in order create the best results possible and help combat both the environmental and waste problems we face responsibly and profitably.

Now the late heiress’s estate is announcing two more unexpected gifts: $40 million apiece to Norwalk Hospital and Westport Weston Family YMCA, both Connecticut nonprofits her family helped establish nearly a century ago.

Despite her fortune, “she was one of us,” says Carol Bauer, a hospital volunteer and former chairman of the hospital’s board.

The Bedford family’s association with the hospital and the Y goes back decades. Bedford, a Standard Oil executive who founded a company now called Ingredion, was the hospital’s chairman in the early 1900s and donated money for a nursing school in 1926. Bedford’s bequest, say hospital officials, the family had given at least $10 million to the medical center.

Bedford did not attach any strings to her bequest, hospital officials plan to take the next six months or so to decide how to use the money, says John Murphy, chief executive of Western Connecticut Health Network, of which Norwalk Hospital is an affiliate.

Bedford’s bequest will push the hospital into the future by providing new resources that will enable the most up-to-date training and care.

The Pay-Less Markets Community Foundation is proud to announce more than 20 community fair vendors will participate in the 19th Annual Pay-Less Kick the Fat 5K Run/Walk & Community Fair scheduled for Saturday at Paseo Stadium in Hagatna.

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The Director of Major & Planned Gifts for the Community Foundation of Morgan County (CFMC) is a newly designed position within the Foundation to capture community interest in the $1 million Lilly Endowment GIFT VI Matching Program. This position reports directly to the Executive Director of the Foundation having primary responsibility in efforts to meet the goal of the matching program creating and developing a strong major and planned giving program for the CFMC.

In late 2014, the Lilly Endowment announced that the Community Foundation of Morgan County was the recipient of a generous $1 million matching grant. Primarily, this will benefit the foundation’s impact grant making, and allow the foundations current annual grant program to evolve with the communitys growing needs.

Founded in 2000, through the merging of the Mooresville Community Foundation and the Morgan County Community Foundation, The Community Foundation of Morgan County is a public tax-exempt non-profit foundation.

Qualified individuals should submit a cover letter and resume to: Executive Director, Community Foundation of Morgan County, 56 N.

(AP) – A program of the Vermont Community Foundation is offering scholarships to help preschool age children attend a child care center.

The Community Foundation has been providing qualified child care centers with scholarships for underserved families since 1990 with funding from the O.P. Edwards Foundation.

The Edwards Foundation intends for the scholarships to benefit preschoolers who seem to be getting “lost in the cracks” when other subsidies are not enough or the child falls just outside of federal or state program eligibility.

Any nonprofit child care center in Vermont that serves children from economically stressed families is eligible to apply for grants up to $2,000.

The deadline is May 1.

Copyright 2015 The Associated Press.

Community gardens sprout in Massillon – News – The Independent – Massillon, OH A group is working on setting up at least two community gardens in Massillon this year with plan to a dd a few more every year to combat the growing problem of food insecurity. James AME Zion Church Community Garden that organizers say should be ready for planting come spring.The Massillon Community Gardens, comprised of community leaders, gardening experts, Walsh University students, and others who have been meeting every month since the fall, has received one grant so far to get two community gardens started. A couple of other gardens may also get started this year or next year depending upon whether the coalition receives more grant money. So far, the group has received a grant for $3,774 through the Creating Healthy Communities program funded by the Ohio Department of Health to get the gardens started. The idea behind the gardens is to give people access to healthy affordable food. Coalition members and directors anticipate people will able to plant a variety of crops tomatoes, peppers, onions, kale, collards, beets, squash and corn.Lisa Benton, one of the directors of the coalition and special events and marketing supervisor at the Massillon Parks and Recreation Department, is credited with getting the ball rolling on community gardening in the city. While the coalition waits to find out about a discretionary grant through Stark Community Foundation, Benton said it welcomes any donations or volunteers to help with the gardens. To help maintain these gardens and start new gardens each year, the coalition is seeking two grants through the Stark Community Foundation: a planning grant for $15,000 and an implementation grant of $100,000. FOCUS ON FOOD SECURITYA study on food insecurity, which refers to access to affordable healthy foods, was commissioned more than a year ago by the Stark Community Foundation and shows this is a public health issue that is a rising challenge for local communities. “If you have a place to grow food, then you have food security,” said Dee Beyeler, who is a master gardener, and a director of the Community Gardens Coalition. Her husband, Les Beyeler, is a facilitator for the group and he said not only do community gardens provide access to healthy food, but the gardens create relationships, which lead to healthy communities.”We’ve sort of lost that art form in the last 50 years,” he said. I get to play in some dirt.”Page 3 of 3 – Gardening program at libraryThe Massillon Public Library offers a free Starting Seeds Indoors program 6 to 7:30 p.m. SW.Get involvedFor more information about volunteering, donating or becoming a community gardener in Massillon, call Lisa Benton at 330-832-1621 ext.

And both veteran foundations and new ones are seeing impact investing as a way to generate both a strong financial return and a social return by placing capital in socially oriented businesses and business-minded nonprofits.

Heron Foundation, and Jean Rogers, chief executive of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, wrote in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, foundations must deal with complex regulations governing their uses of assets, perceptions that social investments lead to lower returns, limited expertise in impact investing among the banks and other organizations that manage endowments, and the struggle to measure the performance of an investment with social returns.

Such concerns are important for foundations to weigh because before they undertake impact investing, they need to understand their appetite for risk and how willing they truly are to use their resources for maximum impact now and how much they are motivated by preserving assets for activities tomorrow.

And in some ways, foundations may find they have little choice: The century-old approach to foundation management, with its silos for investments and mission, may soon become obsolete because of the growing intensity of the problems facing the world.

Assessing sources of money for investments and scale of resources that will be committed to impact investments versus more conventional investments. Only half the foundations that the Foundation Center says make program-related investments (typically loans that charge below-market rates) have been offering loans for more than five years. A few foundations have made the leap to look at investments in a holistic way, but simply mixing philanthropy and investment has not magically led to better financial and social outcomes.

The appeal of impact investing for foundations is based on the idea that their capital can be a catalyst that bursts open a pinata of commercial and public money attracting incremental capital at scale to innovative and effective projects and enterprises.

Impact investing can’t resolve the cross-purposes that are inherent in the way today’s foundations operate, but it will become the must-have app if philanthropists expect to stay relevant.

MACC Server Izzy Eagleson(right)serves apple pie at the MACC kitchen. In her will, Ruddell set up a private foundation to aid organizations providing programs and services to the citizens of Manchester and institutions working for the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Other 2015 grants from the Ruddell Fund are:

Rebuilding Together Manchester, Inc., $7,500 to buy materials for home modifications and repairs for low-income homeowners.

Manchester Scholarship Foundation, Inc., $5,000 to help adult learners with fees outside tuition, such as books and lab fees.

Community Renewal Team, Inc., $6,640 to support READS, a language and reading literacy program for elementary-age students.

Manchester Police Activities League, Inc., $5,500 to support a safe physical education and training environment for PAL by updating equipment, purchasing additional storage and installing air conditioning and fans.

Little Theatre of Manchester, Inc., $7,000 to support the 2015 play season and reach new audiences, including young adults and families.

Lutz Children’s Museum, $9,000 to support care and feeding of museum animals.

The Children’s Museum, $5,000 to expand the Science Achievement for All program for low-income students in town schools.

Manchester Historical Society, $4,000 to help buy visual and audio equipment for the History Center.

C.A.S.T., Inc., $1,600 to provide reduced-rate tickets for seniors and children as part of its outreach programs.

Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Inc., $1,500 to partially support the artist and venue costs for the “Cruisin’ to the Oldies” concert.

Connecticut Humane Society, $8,525 to purchase updated veterinary diagnostic equipment for the Fox Memorial Clinic.

Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective, $4,000 for veterinary care, food and other supports of the Aid-A-Pet program.

Protectors of Animals, Inc., $3,190 to buy shelter software, PetPoint.

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