Norman Harrington, director of development for the diversity funds, notes that each of the communities benefiting from a fund has contrasting cultures, with different traditions and belief systems. Ricardo A. Millett, director of the philanthropic and volunteerism program at the Kellogg Foundation, says the Saint Paul Foundation got the Kellogg grant because it organized a common fund and four semi-autonomous funds to work together.
Separate committees oversee fundraising and grantmaking at each of the four funds.
It's the only grantee in our mix that has attempted to develop a fund embracing all four communities.