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People Building Stronger Communities

Improving Health and Public Safety through Information Sharing Opportunities
New Research on Incarcerated Youth Features Possibility to Reduce Anti-Social Behavior, Recidivism
The Street Dawgs and Cats Care Fair
CSR vs Social Enterprise: Which Strikes More Impact?
City Hospital Calls for Volunteer Patients to Help Trainee Doctors
Maple Ridge Boy Raises $24,000 By Making Lemonade Out of Lemons
How Markets Crumble Moral Values
Social Network MindMixer Garners $17 Million To Connect Communities
Wipro Takes Philanthropic Route to Boost Public Shareholdings

Largest Foundation Giving for 2012

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Rank
Foundation
Grants
Total Given
1
Gates Foundation
1,378
2,579,354,996
2
Ford Foundation
1,407
471,403,757
3
Walton Family Foundation
614
417,696,760
4
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
268
361,182,906
5
Kellogg Foundation
741
354,782,649

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Illustrative Foundation Grants

Visiting Nurse Association of Mercer County
$25,000 From: Bunbury Company

Environmental Defense
$1,891,251 From: Moore Foundation

Marion Youth Development Council/Boys & Girls Club of Marion County
$30,000 From: Marion Community Foundation

Matrix Theatre Company, Detroit
$80,000 From: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

Community Shelter Board
$25,000 From: Gates Foundation

Community Voices Heard
$60,000 From: New York Community Trust

Tippecanoe County Child Care, Inc.
$13,499 From: Community Foundation of Greater Lafayette

ACTION Council
$10,000 From: Community Foundation for Monterey County

The Rhode Island Community Food Bank
$165,000 From: Rhode Island Foundation

Association for Psychosocial Help and Development of Voluntary Work
$60,000 From: Mott Foundation

Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Joseph County
$16,000 From: Community Foundation of St. Joseph County

Woodstock Institute
$200,000 From: MacArthur Foundation

Battle Creek Community Foundation
$41,500 From: Kellogg Foundation

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
$100,000 From: Hewlett Foundation

Arizona Humanities Council
$20,000 From: Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust



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