Community Foundation Update (7/04/09)
News and personnel announcements from community foundations around the country....
Marin Community Foundation Launches $10 Million Affordable Housing Initiative
Developed in conjunction with local affordable housing developers, advocates, and community agencies, the initiative will support strategies such as encouraging effective zoning changes and turning foreclosed homes into affordable housing options....
McKenna Legacy Foundation Awards $900,000 in Grants
The foundation, which was established last year with $70 million from the sale of McKenna Memorial Hospital, awarded grants to twenty-one local nonprofits that have been hurt by the recession....
Zaman, a program officer at Global Giving, discusses why it's important reduce the obsta- cles facing Muslim American donors wishing to honor their religious obligation to charitable giving....
PND spoke with Chen about the roles of technology and assessment in student learning as well as the future of the U.S. education system.... 
YMF works to pre-
An initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Changemakers is a global online platform that connects volunteers with social innovators through open source competitions....
FC SVP Larry McGill looks at the nature of data and its uses; Kaye Pyle reports from the annual Robert Fla- herty film seminar; and Susan Herr dramatizes four scenarios for the future of journalism....
