Grantmakers in the News
November 1, 2002
Name: BellSouth Foundation
Year Founded: 1986
Contact Person: Mary Boehm, President
Address: 1155 Peachtree Street, NE, Room 7H08
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Phone: 404-249-2396 Fax: 404-249-5695
E-mail: grants.manager@bellsouth.com
URL: www.bellsouth.com/foundation
As part of its corporate restructuring, the BellSouth Foundation has
changed its leadership and is redesigning its grantmaking. The foundation will continue to
focus on education, but its giving will be tied more closely to the involvement of employees
and volunteers in the nine Southern U.S. states and the ten Latin American countries where the
company operates.
Mary Boehm, the foundation’s new president, most recently served as
Director of Community Affairs for BellSouth-Alabama in Birmingham and Regional Vice President
of BellSouth Pioneers, the company’s volunteer corps. Her earlier career included serving as
executive director of the Alabama Power Foundation and a program officer at the Community
Foundation for Greater Birmingham.
The foundation will sustain current funding commitments, including three signature education
reform programs:
the Superintendents Leadership Network, a regional leadership development program for school district leaders
the Columbia Group, a regional network of nine nonprofit organizations focused on statewide education reform
A teacher quality initiative
The foundation will also continue to fund an initiative to support college-bound minorities;
edu.pwr³, a $10 million initiative to harness the power of technology for teaching and
learning; and Proniño, a multi-country initiative in Latin America to help working children
return to school.
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