These are among $1,571,500 in community and University of Wisconsin grants announced today by the Foundation’s board of directors. Of the total, 56 area nonprofits shared in $1,249,000 while $322,500 went to 26 efforts at UW-Madison. One of those was a $12,500 grant, the first of five installments, for the scholarship endowment at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication established by Washington Post editor David Maraniss in honor of his late father and editor of The Capital Times, Elliott Maraniss.
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