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Walkerton Foundations and Nonprofits

Section 36 of 83 in the Walkerton record · 4 entry pages

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Nonprofits

#210 — The universities'-money negative, by design: where the money a university town would hold runs instead

This item is a negative, and it is printed as a designed negative — not an oversight in the register and not a gap awaiting a settler. No university stands on the Walkerton ground. No college holds a campus in the town or in…

#211 — The development corporation's course, and the neighborhood-corporation test

At 612 Roosevelt Road the register banks a pair: the Walkerton Chamber of Commerce Inc., descended from a Board of Trade and carrying a federal ruling of February 1981, and beside it the Walkerton Area Economic Development Corp…

#212 — The civic-league test: NAACP, League of Women Voters, Urban League — this ground, then the county seat

The test is run against the register read whole, and its result for this ground is stated first and plainly: among the sixty-four exempt organizations under the Walkerton post office there is no NAACP line, no League of Women…

#213 — The fellowship/talent-corporation test: the enFocus class, run against this ground

The class tested is the talent corporation: a nonprofit whose business is importing and placing young professional talent — fellows — into a region's employers. Its regional exemplar is enFocus, and the exemplar is first fixed at…

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Source: Walkerton Foundations and Nonprofits, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/foundations-nonprofits/