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Community Foundations, Including Okoboji Foundation, Post Significant Growth

November 22, 2014

(Okoboji)– Uncertain economic times have done little so far to impact fundraising for various community foundations around Iowa. That’s according to a recently issued report from the Iowa Council of Foundations, a statewide membership association of grantmaking foundations.

Mary Freiborg of the Okoboji Foundation, tells KUOO news the foundations enjoyed some significant growth since June, 2010…Click here to hear mp3 file

Likewise, Freiborg says the growth experienced statewide carried over locally to the Okoboji Foundation…Click here to hear mp3 file

Freiborg says now the goal is to atleast sustain that growth or increase it even more. She’s confident they’ll be able to do that again this coming year, thanks to the Legislature…Click here to hear mp3 file

Iowa community foundations are non-profit organizations that focus on building local philanthropy by connecting people who care to the causes that matter the most to them.