Waypoint Madge Phillips Center Shelter has recently received a $20,000 grant from The Mary Kay Foundation in observation of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October.
According to Anne Crews, Mary Kay Inc. Vice President of Government Relations and board member for The Mary Kay Foundation, the Mary Kay Foundation is committed to breaking the cycle of domestic violence. The Foundation's mission is two-fold: to fund research of cancers affecting women and to help prevent domestic violence while raising awareness of the issue.
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Senay Ataselim-Yilmaz, Chief Operating Officer, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, writes that philanthropy often solves the very problems that stems from market failure. Some social issues, however, cannot be tackled by questioning the return on investment.