November 13, 1997
Foundation Hopes to Make a Bigger Contribution by Narrowing Its Focus
The Northwest Area Foundation has scuttled its longstanding grant-making programs to devote most of its resources to comprehensive long-term efforts to improve a few poor communities.
"We are getting out of the project-by-project, grant-request-by-grant-request business," says Karl N. Stauber, the fund's president. Instead, the foundation plans to spend $180-million in the next decade "to work in communities with the greatest need and the greatest
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