by MBJ Staff Published: May 22,2013
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HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi Foundation reports its tornado relief and campus beautification campaigns were “entering a quiet phase” as the nation focuses its attention on tornado victims in Oklahoma. During this time the Foundation will refrain from publicly soliciting donors for the campaigns. The Foundation launched the tornado relief effort immediately following [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 25,2013
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HORN LAKE — Horn Lake is planning to sell some city-owned property to Habitat for Humanity for seven homes to be built by the nonprofit agency. The Commercial Appeal reports that aldermen voted last week to declare seven lots as surplus. Three appraisals will determine their fair market value — and thus the sale price. [...] [...]
JACKSON — Stewpot Community Services and U.S. Postal Service investigators suspect that as much as $100,000 in missing donations were stolen from the charity in a mail fraud scheme over the holidays. Executive director Frank Spencer said Stewpot noticed donations were down sharply between Nov. 27 and Dec. 17 compared to the same period in [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 12,2012
Tags: assistance, automobile, car, charitable giving, charity, dealer, dealership, disaster recovery, donation, donor, giving, hurricane, natural disaster, rain, relief, retail, storm, storm surge, SUV, tornado, truck, van, vehicle, Weather, wind
SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI — Ford dealerships in the Pine Belt area are sending relief supplies to help Staten Island communities damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Eighty pallets full of canned goods, diapers, personal care items, blankets, batteries and bottled water, enough to fill a semi-truck trailer, is bound for Dana Ford Lincoln in Staten Island, N.Y. These [...] [...]
JACKSON — The Community Foundation of Greater Jackson (CFGJ) has just established the Mississippi Nurses Foundation (MNF) Endowment Fund. The board and staff of MNF will use this fund to provide long-range support for this nonprofit foundation’s ongoing programs and services. The Mississippi Nurses Foundation’s mission is to raise, accept and disperse charitable donations to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 27,2012
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COLUMBUS — As Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science celebrates its 25th year, it’s also facing a common problem among schools — escalating costs, a decrease in state appropriations and an ever-increasing need for public support. In recent years, they’ve come to rely more heavily upon the financial backing of the MSMS Foundation and private [...] [...]
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — A new study on the generosity of Americans suggests that states with the least religious residents are also the stingiest about giving money to charity. The study released by the Chronicle of Philanthropy found that residents in states where religious participation is higher than the rest of the nation, particularly in the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 21,2012
Tags: cardiac, charity, children, construction, health, health care, hearty, hospital, medicine, nonprofit, pediatric
JACKSON — Friends of Children’s Hospital, a group of volunteers dedicated to Batson Children’s Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has pledged $2 million toward the creation of a new Children’s Heart Center at UMMC. The pledge was announced during a gala Friends event held at the Mississippi Museum of Art, “An Enchanted [...] [...]
Goodwill Industries of Mississippi will hold its annual awards dinner Aug. 16 at the Country Club of Jackson to recognize outstanding volunteers. The honorees are Anna Jolly Burnett, Mary Preston Hays Dubberly, Donna Bailey Dye, Sister Mary Trinita Eddington, Stephanie Strickland Garriga, Cathy Griffin Joyner, Susie Puckett, June Crumbley Stone, Elise Williams, Louis P. Wright [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: July 19,2012
Tags: charitable giving, charity, college, donate, donation, education, gift, giving, higher education, nonprofit, philanthropist, philanthropy, record, university
STARKVILLE — The Mississippi State University Foundation is marking the largest private giving year in the land-grant institution’s history. Campus officials announced more than $86 million was raised during the just-ended 2012 fiscal year, an increase of more than $6 million from the previously held record of FY 11′s over $80.3 million total. A major [...] [...]
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