MLive: Kalamazoo Community Foundation awards $719,000 in grants
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The Kalamazoo Community Foundation announced grants recently totaling more than $719,000 for nine area nonprofits, reports MLive. The grants, ranging from $22,500 to $180,000, represent the fourth round of grants approved by the Kalamazoo Community Foundation board of trustees in 2012.
Excerpt: “The vision of our donors throughout 87 years, funding needs they could not have imagined, is realized in each round of grants,” said Carrie Pickett-Erway, the foundation’s president and CEO.
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