March 6, 2011

As Assets Slowly Recover, Foundations Grapple With How to Help Cash-Strapped Charities

New Chronicle survey suggests giving will rise slightly as grant makers transition out of crisis mode

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Courtesy of the Dougy Center

As the economy recovers, Meyer Memorial Trust has decided not to extend a program offered in 2009 and 2010 to help charities facing challenges because of the recession, but it continues to make emergency grants, like the one it gave the Dougy Center after a fire in 2009

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Courtesy of the Dougy Center

As the economy recovers, Meyer Memorial Trust has decided not to extend a program offered in 2009 and 2010 to help charities facing challenges because of the recession, but it continues to make emergency grants, like the one it gave the Dougy Center after a fire in 2009

By Marisa López-Rivera and Caroline Preston

More: Read the full special report on giving by big foundations.

Grant making by the country’s richest foundations is expected to tick up only slightly in 2011, according to a new Chronicle survey based on data from 187 funds.

The modest increase would come after two successive years of gains in