In August, the Meeting Street School in Providence received a $2,000 check from the retail giant Target. The donation was for backpacks. As Amanda McMullen, senior director of external relations for Meeting Street recalled, “We just wrote the grant, and they awarded it.” In other words, the traditional method of solicitation, whereby request was rewarded by paper contribution had worked. More
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