April 9, 1999

For Community Colleges, Fund Raising Has Become Serious and Successful

By MARTIN VAN DER WERF

Prime donors are less likely to be alumni and more likely to be businesses that value institutions' role

Little more than a decade ago, a community college fund-raising drive was as foreign a concept as a major art museum on one of the campuses.

Community colleges were created with one purpose: to be low-cost, no-frills preparatory institutions for students who didn't have the money, the grades, or the

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