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Posted by Isabella Guzman | December 27th, 2020
Days following the election, an online community conversation hosted and facilitated by NCDD member org The Interactivity Foundation, together with IONA Senior Services took place. During this convening, exploratory questions about our society and the prospect for forming a more perfect union were asked. The outcome is compiled in this article as a list of concerns in various sectors: the elections and health of our democracy, polarization and the role of the media.We look forward to Interactivity Foundations’ decision to further follow this topic in 2021 as part of their #WeavingCommunity Initiative.
Below you will find the entire resume of key points and for the original post here.
Updated at 12:21 p.m. ET
Scores of private charitable foundations, set up by some of the nation s wealthiest people, received money from the federal government s Paycheck Protection Program, which was created last spring to save jobs at small businesses as the coronavirus tanked the economy.
NPR has identified at least 120 foundations that collectively received more than $7.5 million in PPP funding. That s a small slice of the overall program, which disbursed about a half-trillion dollars, but some of the foundations are linked to individuals of considerable means: an oil magnate, a cable television tycoon, a dermatologist called the father of modern hair transplantation, and an aviation entrepreneur who founded companies with annual sales of more than a billion dollars.
Scores Of Private Charitable Foundations Got Paycheck Protection Program Money – Nation & World News wuft.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wuft.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Koenig Private Foundation ($150,521)
Letters Foundation AKA Sunshine Lady Humanitarian Grants Program ($268,800)
Mission Increase Foundation ($277,320)
Niswonger Foundation ($200,529)
Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation ($154,800)
Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation ($150,900)
Richard Diebenkorn Foundation ($157,380)
Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation ($103,200)
Walt Disney Family Foundation ($146,700)
Willard G. Pierce and Jessie M. Pierce Foundation ($156,400)
Some of the foundations contacted by NPR said the stock market plunge early this year caused their investment portfolios to decline, and they didn’t want to sell assets at a loss to cover budget shortfalls.
The Boston-based Letters Foundation, officially known as the Sunshine Lady Humanitarian Grants Program, falls in that category. It began as a sibling partnership between Warren Buffett and his late sister Doris: Strangers would often ask them for money, so Doris decided which requests to fund, and she and War