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...half years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Washington is nearing a poignant milestone: the Survivors' Fund, the country's last major 9/11 charity, officially dissolves on May 15. In dollar terms, it was far from the biggest player: more than 7,000 people affected by the attacks have received over $12 billion, most of which came from the federally financed Victim Compensation Fund. But the $25 million Survivors' Fund, formed to help those affected by the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon, may be the best model for assisting victims of a mass-casualty disaster...
Following the advice of charities set up after the Oklahoma City bombings, organizers at the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region created the fund to do more than just write checks. Each of its 1,051 clients was assigned an experienced social worker who helped draft a set of personalized goals. For Sergeant First Class Christopher Braman, an Army Ranger who was at the Pentagon on 9/11 and was severely injured while helping recover bodies at the site, the case managers "became like family." The fund assisted Braman's wife in getting scholarships for nursing school and found college...
Some of these lessons were applied last year in responding to the Virginia Tech school shooting and the Minneapolis bridge collapse. On May 5, the fund released a detailed blueprint of its methods; it will, unfortunately, prove useful again...
...Undergraduate Council is closing the 2007-2008 school year with an unprecedented $10,000 surplus, UC Treasurer Anthony R. Britt ’10 announced on Sunday. The UC will use the surplus, left over after the final batch of grants, to fund any remaining grants for the year. The remaining money will be rolled over to next year’s budget. Two years ago, grants that came at the end of the year were cut by 45 percent; groups that would have received full funding earlier in the year only received about half of what they requested. Last...
...relied on old money For a decade or more, the Clintons set the standard for political fund raising in the Democratic Party, and nearly all Bill's old donors had re-upped for Hillary's bid. Her 2006 Senate campaign had raised an astonishing $51.6 million against token opposition, in what everyone assumed was merely a dry run for a far bigger contest. But something had happened to fund raising that Team Clinton didn't fully grasp: the Internet. Though Clinton's totals from working the shrimp-cocktail circuit remained impressive by every historic measure, her donors were typically...