At College Where Alumni Pockets Are Shallow, a Struggle to Raise Money - GINIA BELLAFANTE, NY Times

Educational institutions and services remain the second biggest beneficiaries of philanthropy in the country, after religious organizations, but little of the money flows to community colleges, the mostly public institutions that now enroll 45 percent of the country’s undergraduates, most of them poor or working-class and many of them requiring extensive remedial learning. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/nyregion/at-college-where-alumni-pockets-are-shallow-a-struggle-to-raise-money.html?_r=0