Mississippi Business Journal » Wellspring Center for Professional Futures http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Thu, 23 May 2013 20:25:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 CREATE ‘about quality of life’ http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/25/create-about-quality-of-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=create-about-quality-of-life http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/25/create-about-quality-of-life/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:01:38 +0000 Lisa Monti http://msbusiness.com/?p=68649 The 40-year-old nonprofit CREATE Foundation has experienced tremendous growth in the last eight years, when its assets more than doubled from $30 million to about $64.5 million at the end of 2012. Driving the growth is Toyota’s $50-million endowment as well as CREATE’s successful challenge grant matches in the 17-county region where the nonprofit is [...]

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