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Welcome to SmartLink!
A service of The Community Giving Resource

SmartLink (formerly communitygivingresource.org) is your one-stop-shop for free and useful ideas and insights, created just for donors, foundation trustees and others who give locally, to neighborhoods and communities. SmartLink solves your toughest giving problem:   it helps you learn who is building strong communities, what is working to make a difference, and how to connect your giving (whether modest or substantial) to the most effective ideas and projects.

Connect, with just a few clicks!

Among the treasures you will find here are candid profiles of donors and small foundations from all over the country, making a difference on a range of issues in their communities . With a few clicks on the left navigation menu, you can search briefs and tools focused on six key issues—including Housing, Education, Health and Wellness and Healthy Environments.

Don't stop there, drill deeper to explore action- and results-oriented topics and strategies. We won't tell you where to give; instead, SmartLink makes your giving smarter and more focused on making a difference.   Please note: CGR is not a grantmaker.

Needmor Fund: A Long-Term Commitment to Local Community Leadership

When they started their family foundation, Duane and Virginia Secor Stranahan drew upon their parents' legacy of community stewardship. In the late 19th century, the Secors were pivotal to Toledo, Ohio's economic, intellectual, and cultural formation. In 1910, Frank Stranahan and his brother Robert founded The Champion Spark Plug Company, which was to become a leader in corporate accountability and philanthropy. Leadership and strategies change; yet the Needmor Fund remains faithful to one goal: to empower those individuals whose basic rights to justice and opportunity are systematically ignored or denied.
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	At the start of each year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publishes poverty guidelines. These guidelines establish minimum income levels that determine whether families and individuals are at 'poverty levels.' Federal Poverty Guidelines qualify families for state or federal benefits, such as children's health insurance and food stamps. Read More...
	The film actor Brad Pitt rolled out his Make It Right program, a $12-million effort, Monday to build at least 150 low-cost, environmentally friendly, storm-safe houses in New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward neighborhood Read More...
	Several Southern states have become the nation’s leaders in Pre-K over the last 10 years. As a result, the South in 2007 leads the nation in offering state-funded Pre-K to three- and four-year-old children. Read More...

	In 2006, Giving Circles donated $13 million for community needs.
	1 in 5 low-wage workers is an immigrant
	In 2006 Americans contributed over 8.1 billion hours of volunteer service, valuing over $150 billion in service
	As most elderly people are covered by Medicare, nearly all the uninsured are under age 65

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