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A Former Grant Maker's Persistence Benefits a YMCA Chapter

John Pencer should have known what was coming. He and his wife were sitting down for a meeting with Ervie

Smith, his colleague on the YMCA of Santa Clara Valley's Board of Directors. The topic: a donation Ms. Smith hoped he would make to the $19.6-million capital campaign she was leading to rebuild...

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