The mission of Waco Foundation is to promote solutions to community challenges, strengthen local nonprofits, engage philanthropists and manage charitable assets in order to improve quality of life in McLennan County.
The community agency has received $90,000 from the Waco Foundation to take over its SmartBabies Early Childhood Initiative and will launch a new family ... has brought in an estimated $2 million in...more
In fact, Ratliff said his family is working on a long-term plan to best accommodate and continue their philanthropic lifestyle. “We're working to form...more
It's one measurement of the philanthropic gap between rural and urban America. .... and philanthropy — the dearth of foundation and corporate philanthropic...more
However, there is a much more powerful explanation related to a core problem in charity and philanthropy — the dearth of foundation and corporate philanthropic grantmaking for rural communities and...more
Ashley Allison, executive director of the Waco Foundation, a nonprofit community foundation trust that allocates funding to other nonprofits throughout Waco and McLennan County, reconfigured...more
Teach for America is a social venture that hires graduating seniors from some of the most selective colleges and offers them with five-week training courses before unleashing them for a minimum of two years in some of the country’s worst classrooms.