September 15, 2005
New Findings Show Philanthropic Efforts Are Growing in Rural Areas
Philanthropy in rural America is growing, as community foundations increasingly establish special funds to serve remote geographic areas and new grass-roots efforts are getting under way to encourage greater giving in rural parts of the country, two new reports have found.
More than 3,000 so-called geographic affiliate funds now operate across the country, according to a survey by the Aspen Institute, a think tank in Washington, and three-quarters of them make grants to groups in
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