First Nations Development Institute of Longmont, Colorado gains a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Northwest Area Foundation.
The grants will fund a research to be used to "uncover emerging trends, areas of progressive development and best practices". The grant earned by the institute is one of the 27 grants totaling $3.3 million that Northwest Area Foundation has announced in the second quarter of 2013.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.