The four grants totaling $40,000, funded by the Marajen Stevick Foundation were recently awarded through the Community Foundation of East Central Illinois.
The largest grant given in the amount of $13,500 went to support the literacy program of Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center, which serves more than 150 children with an after-school homework study center and academic enrichment activities.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.