Community Foundation celebrates local, global philanthropy

FORT COLLINS – The community foundation model just might save the world,
in the opinion of former U.S. Senator Tim Wirth.

Now the president of the private, nonprofit United Nations Foundation,
Wirth told a crowd of nearly 600 supporters at the Community Foundation
of Northern Colorado annual Celebration of Philanthropy Thursday evening
that his organization aspires to be “the community foundation for the
world.”

The UN Foundation was created in 1998 by CNN Founder Ted Turner with the
goal of supporting United Nations causes with $100 million per year for
10 years. After three years…