The Community Foundation for Southwest Washington received a new four-year, $700,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The homegrown philanthropic clearinghouse will consult nonprofit leaders, other local experts and the public to study the issue of poverty then it will regrant the money it received from Gates.
The Community Foundation operates as a clearinghouse, amassing, managing, investing and distributing money to a wide variety of community causes.
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Employers For Childcare Charitable Group (EFCG), a Lisburn-based charity, has been crowned top Social Enterprise at the Ulster Final of 2014’s Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards. EFCG seeks to “make it easier for parents with dependent children to get into work and to stay in work.”