Shortchanging Rural Community Development

dilapidated farm and big skyThe more things change, the more they stay the same in philanthropy, it seems. A few years ago, foundations were hot to trot in response to Montana Senator Max Baucus’s call for the foundation community to double its measly grantmaking to rural America in a five year period. So what happened when the incoming chair of the Senate Finance Committee conveyed his concerns about the philanthropic pittance reaching rural states and communities?

We Are All Wondering

Ruth McCambridgeThis is an interesting—and crazy—moment in time. We are all wondering what will happen to jobs, to local small businesses, to our family’s primary care under whatever health reform bill passes, to our community’s housing as new home sales hit their lowest point in 50 years? None of us know, but one thing we can be sure of is that nonprofits will be deeply involved.

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