February 9, 2010


Education funders adjust to recession

Education funding While education funders trimmed their grantmaking budgets last year, they remain committed to finding and funding innovative solutions to entrenched problems, a new study says.

Giving News: In Brief

  • Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, received $1 million from 3M Corp. and its foundation for new professional sales and communications lab for students.
  • MasterCard Foundation launched $4.6 million scholarship program to provide educational support to 676 of Kenya’s most promising yet disadvantaged youth.
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art received early contributions of $250 million in $480 million campaign to expand museum and double endowment.
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Nonprofit News: In Brief

  • Kim M. Kubasek, former chief operating officer, United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Suffolk, Hauppauge, N.Y., named associate executive director, Developmental Disabilities Institute, Smithtown, N.Y.
  • The Power of Collaborative Solutions: Six Principles and Effective Tools for Building Healthy Communities, by Tom Wolff, to be published in March by Jossey-Bass
  • Convio says nonprofits using its online software to create Haiti-specific fundraising campaigns raised over $250 million for relief in first three weeks after the quake.
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