Foundation Gives Loans to Nonprofits
When the Desert Botanical Garden needed extra cash to build a
pumping system, it looked into ways to borrow money. Rather than turn
to a bank, it sought help from a nontraditional lender.
The garden received $375,000 from the Arizona Community Foundation
in one of the foundation's first forays into lending. Some
philanthropic groups
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'Cancer Has Met Its Match' Nears Goal
With a $2 million commitment by Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust,
Banner MD Anderson Foundation is nearing the completion of its "Cancer
Has Met Its Match" campaign. With $310,725 remaining to reach $20
million, the foundation has additional new commitments from Western
Refining, Deloitte & Touche and Ernst & Young.
More tha
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Mayo, Phoenix Children’s Program Second in Survival
The Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Mayo Clinic in Arizona
and Phoenix Childrens Hospital ranked second among all U.S. BMT
programs for one-year survival rates for patients between 2008 and
2010. Data was reported in March 2013 by the Center for International
Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, a combined research program of
the National Marrow Dono
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