Oregon Community Foundation doled out $25,000 for Creative Advocate Network's effort to educate the public through research and communicate the need for arts education in public schools.
According to Max Williams, the foundation's president and CEO, arts education in their schools and in their neighborhoods is a fundamental element to allow children to reach their true potential. The Oregon Community Foundation gains support from the Dant Family Fund and the Edna L. Holmes Fund for these grants.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.