December 30, 2002
Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities. ...
The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities was launched in the Spring of 1999 by a group of seven foundations. These foundations included:
Surdna Foundation
Turner Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
Ford Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Energy Foundation
The Network was established to inform and strengthen
philanthropic funders' individual and collective abilities to support and
connect organizations working to advance social equity, create better
economies, build livable communities, and protect and preserve natural
resources. The Network is housed at the Collins Center for Public Policy
in Miami, Florida. The Collins Center for Public Policy, Inc. - http://www.collinscenter.org/
was created in 1989. The Center is an independent, nonpartisan and
nonprofit organization that promotes, through thought and
action, creative solutions to major private and public issues facing the people
of Florida and the nation. For more information about the Collins Center:
http://www.fundersnetwork.org/info-url_nocat2777/info-url_nocat_show.htm?doc_id=52838
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