User:Marc Kupper/Park Foundation

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This is a working document to create an article about the Park Foundation of Ithaca, NY. For now, the mainspace article redirects to Roy H. Park.

It's possible the foundation does not pass WP:N and so the first effort is to locate evidence of notability and as long as sources are getting looked at to gather sources for article content.

Potential references

Searches for "Park Foundation" should include Ithaca or exclude things like "National Park Foundation" or "National Park"

• About (WP:SELF foundation web site)
• Gale search for "Park Foundation" and Ithaca - All results turned out to be trivial mentions for WP:N but cites were found that will be useful for article content.
  • Fitzgerald, Mark. "Park Communications sold for $711 million; real estate developer and stock broker team up to buy newspaper and broadcast chain. (Donald Tomlin, Gary Knapp)." Editor & Publisher 127.n45 (Nov 5, 1994): 9(1). - The foundation owned 51% of Park Communications Inc. and thus received 51% of the $711 million selling price.
  • Zier, Julie A. "Park stations, papers sell for $711 million." Broadcasting & Cable 125.n43 (Oct 31, 1994): 10(1). - The foundation owned 51% of Park Communications Inc. and thus received 51% of the $711 selling price.
  • Garneau, George. "Park put in play: five months after the death of its founder, Park Communications is put up for sale." Editor & Publisher 127.n15 (April 9, 1994): 9(2). - Park willed 51% of Park Communications to the foundation.
  • "HATTERAS ISLAND STUDENT AWARDED $40,000 SCHOLARSHIP TO N.C. STATE." The Virginian Pilot (July 8, 2001): Y5. - Possibly not a RS but mention of the foundation funding of scholarships "The Park scholarships were established at N.C. State in 1996 with a grant from the Park Foundation of Ithaca, N.Y., to fund an inaugural class of 25 scholars. They were named after Roy H. Park, a 1931 graduate of North Carolina State and native of Dobson, N.C., who established a nationwide newspaper-radio-television enterprise named Park Communications Inc. "
• http://activecause.com/nonprofit-profile/park-foundation-inc/id/3b3d3a3d393e202521

Registered name: Park Foundation Inc

Primary purpose: Unclassified - Unknown

Exempt class: 501(c)3 - Charitable Organization

Founded / ruling year: 1967

Assets: $ 391,201,136

• Park Foundation Grant, Annual Affiliates Meeting Give Boost to Media Literacy Project at Ithaca College 11/05/1998 news release

• 10/2/2009 - I checked the New York Times archive from 1851 to 1980 for "Park Foundation." There were 30 hits but none were about this Park Foundation.
• 10/2/2009 - I checked the New York Times archive from 1981 to present for "Park Foundation." There were 76 hits with three being about this Park Foundation with one being trivial and two are very trivial.
  • Trivial mention - COMPANY NEWS; Investors in Deal to Buy Park Communications
    By KENNETH N. GILPIN
    Published: Thursday, October 27, 1994.
  • Very trivial mention - MEDIA; Apology Highlights ABC Reporter's Contrarian Image
    ...Interest -- whose group is supported by subcribers to its publications and by the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Park Foundation -- said though he found Mr. Stossel's erroneous organic food report egregious, he was not surprised by it...
    August 14, 2000 - By JIM RUTENBERG and FELICITY BARRINGER - Business - 1945 words.
  • Very trivial mention - A Trip to the Museum Is Far More Than What It Was
    ...s Art Around the Corner program itself, financing has come from grants issued by the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Park Foundation and the Ford Motor Company. Foundations have been the biggest supporters of these museum-school programs. The...
    February 19, 1997 - By CAROL VOGEL - Education - 1613 words.
• 10/2/2009 I checked the Wall Street Journal archives. There were no hits of interest.