'Fast Company': the Markle Fund

By NICOLE LEWIS

The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation is "crossing some once-sacred lines in the foundation world" by planning to distribute half of its $200-million endowment in the next several years and considering grants to for-profit companies, says the magazine Fast Company (February).

Those measures aim to help fulfill the foundation's main goal: "to pursue the potential of interactive media to improve people's lives," says Zoë Baird, the

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