Community Foundation Update (11/21/09)
News and personnel announcements from community foundations around the country....
Jury Gives Glassell Fortune to Museum, Family Foundation
A Texas jury has upheld the 2003 will of philanthropist and oilman Alfred Glassell, Jr., leaving the bulk of his half-billion-dollar estate to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Glassell Family Foundation....
MacArthur Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Support Higher Education in Russia
The grant to a network of twenty scientific research and education centers across Russia will support conferences for young scientists and the international peer review of grant proposals submitted to the Russian government....
Nebraska Community Foundation Receives $1 Million Challenge Grant
To secure the challenge grant from the Ford Foundation, the Nebraska Community Foundation must raise an additional $3 million from Nebraska-connected donors by the end of 2010....