Letter Struck at Core of Grantees’ Problem
April 8, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
To the Editor:
My thanks to Humphrey Taylor for pointing out the tendency of foundations to resist providing core funding (“‘Core Funding’ Is Key to Charities’ Success,” Letters to the Editor, February 25).
We’ve had the frustrating experience of having several foundations tell us, “We love what you’re doing, but we won’t fund it; we’ll only fund a special project,” while we’re busy struggling to do what we do well on extremely limited funds. Do we then have to create a special project that actually distracts us from the main thing we do?
If you like what we’re doing, and we tell you that that is what we need money for, why not fund it?
Stephen Krausz
Assistant Director
Jewish Children’s Adoption Network
Denver
