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Attempts by the San Francisco Foundation to use the cy pres doctrine to spend outside of Marin County resulted in litigation which the SF Foundation lost. [8] [10] As part of a 1986 court settlement, the Marin Community Foundation was established to administer the trust, valued in 2013 at approximately $1 billion. [11]
The first community foundation was set up in Cleveland in 1914 by Frederick Goff and operates now as The Cleveland Foundation. [3] Others soon followed including the California Community Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust. The first Community Foundation in Canada, The Winnipeg Foundation, was established in Winnipeg in 1921. [4]
The distribution of income in Marin is exceedingly lopsided; the top fifth of Marin taxpayers take home about 71 percent of the county’s total income. The bottom fifth earns 1.3 percent of the total income. [citation needed] The Marin County report was commissioned by the Marin Community Foundation (MCF). [citation needed]
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Marin Organic is a non-profit 501(c)(3) association of organic producers headquartered in Point Reyes Station, California.Founded in 1999 with the goal of creating the first all-organic county, [1] Marin Organic is known for working with the government, community groups and organizations, fellow ranchers and farmers to advance the practice of sustainable, organic production.
The Community Foundation for the CSRA gave out 50 grants worth more than $626,000 to nonprofits that serve the homeless, children and others. Community grants supported by Masters Tournament to ...
Rancho San Jose was a 6,659-acre (26.95 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Marin County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Ygnacio Pacheco. [1] The grant included the lands of Hamilton Air Force Base and the community of Ignacio. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Six documentaries that have premiered in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival are among the 46 recipients of The Ford Foundation’s $4.2 million donation as part of the ...