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The move is motivated in part by an effort to achieve more with existing resources.
After a Duluth-area flash flood inundated thousands of homes, and scores of businesses and nonprofits on June 20, three foundations stepped forward to support the recovery effort.
The board of trustees of the F. R. Bigelow Foundation, an affiliate of Minnesota Philanthropy Partners, approved 38 grants totaling $2,327,019 at its November 2011 meeting.
