Additional Resources
The website of the Kaiser Family Foundation offers a Health Reform Comparison Tool which allows users to interactive side-by-side compares the leading comprehensive reform proposals across a number of key characteristics and plan components. Included are proposals for moving toward universal coverage that have been put forward by the President and Members of Congress.Included are those that have been formally introduced as legislation as well as those that have been offered as draft proposals or as policy options. It will be regularly updated to reflect changes in the proposals and to incorporate major new proposals as they are announced.
Visit the Foundation Center's Foundations for Education Excellencewebsite, an online resource exchange focused on helping foundations leverage federal education funds. The website also offers useful maps and research as well as upcoming events and an archive of past events. CSF's regional association counterpart in Indiana, the Indiana Grantmakers Alliance, recently commissioned Tony Macklin to write a guide for Indiana foundations on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Shovel-Ready Ideas: How Philanthropy Can Leverage the Economic Stimulus. While some of the information is specific to Indiana, the document also helps foundations guide nonprofits, local government agencies and communities to better use of economic stimulus opportunities.
Featured Foundation New Mexico Women's Foundation
Santa Fe, New Mexico
One of CSF's newest members, the New Mexico Women's Foundation believes that projects and organizations, especially in underserved areas of New Mexico, have the best ability to encourage and develop women's creativity and lead them to establish cottage industries, which will generate much needed income and promote positive social change for thousands of women and girls in New Mexico. Learn more about the Women's Cottage Industries program, inlcuding Micro-lending grants and the Rag Rug Festivals and Design Collectives, by visiting www.nmwf.org.
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