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By SARANA SCHELL
Anchorage Daily News
Published: May 15th, 2005
Last Modified: May 15th, 2005 at 06:30 AM
When Rasmuson Foundation president Diane Kaplan was in Bethel two years ago, she stopped by a battered women's shelter to see the improvements that were supposed to have been made through a grant from the prominent Alaska philanthropy organization.
Instead of a repaired building, Kaplan found the money given for new windows, safe drinking water and more was one more responsibility piled on a swamped shelter director.
'Michelle, show us what you've done with the Rasmuson funds,' Kaplan asked.
A palette of windows lay in the yard with no one to install them, and shelter director Michelle DeWitt said she hadn't gotten a water treatment system yet, because if she got the wrong one she would have to fly to Anchorage for training as a licensed water treatment operator, as she said other rural nonprofit leaders have had to do, and she didn't know how she'd find time to do that. "
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