Margaret A. Cargill Foundation will provide meaningful support through long-term relationships with strategic grantee partners to identify and implement sustainable solutions to persistent problems and to explore innovative opportunities within closely defined program areas.
The Target Foundation and Corporation topped Minnesota's grantmaking list for 2011, donating $147 million nationally, including $26 million for charities and...more
The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation says the money will go toward three areas. Among them, it will help support disaster case managers for Lutheran Social Services, who act as advocates to...more
The Community Foundation of Taney County has awarded a grant of $92,000 to the Branson Area Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) to assist individuals and families struggling to recover...more
It was a remarkable 24 hours at the Washburn Center for Children of Minneapolis earlier this month. The state bonding bill was approved about noon May 9, containing $5 million to help build a new $21...more
The Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies has recently announced that it has a new chief investment officer in the name of Shawn Wischmeier.
Wischmeier will manage $6 billion in assets held by the...more
The late Margaret A. Cargill, granddaughter of agribusiness titan WW Cargill, has reportedly left $6 billion to be given away to numerous causes through her Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and Anne...more
With the grants from Margaret A. Cargill Foundation and MAC Foundation, the Luther College can help advance the work of the new Luther Center for Sustainable Communities and other sustainability...more
Saabira Chaudhuri of The Guardian relates the increase in charitable donations in America as the economy improves after the recession.
Chaudhuri sites the annual Philanthropy 50 list of the...more
Native American initiatives will begin the foundation's grant-making, starting late this year or early 2012 with a program focused on the Pacific Northwest ...See all stories on this topic »Los...more
Textbooks for Change, a London-based social enterprise that has obtained the B Corporation seal for positive social and environmental impact, is seeking investors that would be helping the company expand.