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The Boston Foundation
The Boston Foundation, founded in 1915, is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the United States.〔(AR ). (PDF) . Retrieved on October 20, 2011.〕 Serving the Greater Boston area, it is made up of some 900 separate charitable funds established by thousands of donors over more than 90 years.〔 Funds are set up either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes, such as supporting individual nonprofit organizations in perpetuity. Today the Foundation is the largest public charity and the largest grantmaker in New England, making more than $92 million in grants in 2007.〔 Since 2001, the Boston Foundation has also served as a civic leader by commissioning and publishing research and providing a platform for discussion and progress related to a wide range of challenges facing Boston and the region.
== History ==
The Boston Foundation was founded in 1915 by Charles E. and Charles M. Rogerson, who were father and son.〔http://www.tbf.org/uploadedFiles/tbforg/There_at_the_Beginning/There%20from%20the%20Beginning.pdf〕 Originally called the Permanent Charity Fund, it was the third community foundation in the United States, but it stood out for its innovative approach to philanthropy.〔 It was the first community foundation based on the novel idea of collecting funds from across an entire region, and building an endowment to improve the life of the community.〔 Equally precedent-setting was the Rogersons’ notion of empowering a Distribution Committee, composed of prominent and knowledgeable citizens, to make grants on the basis of need—where the funds could do the greatest good. The genius lay in coupling the constancy of endowment with the flexibility of giving away money, compassionately, to meet changing community needs.
In 1985, the foundation was renamed The Boston Foundation, and Anna Faith Jones became the President—the first African-American woman to lead a major foundation in the United States. Today, it is led by President and CEO, Paul S. Grogan.〔(Meet Our President ). Tbf.org. Retrieved on October 20, 2011.〕
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