“We need our own Jerry Frautschi. We need our own Morgridges,” Adam Smith, director of development for Porchlight Inc. said today.
Smith was invoking the brand of generosity that brought millions from Frautschi and his wife, Pleasant Rowland, for the development of the Overture Center for the Arts, and provided seed money for the newly planned Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery from UW-Madison alums John and Tashia Morgridge.
Smith was talking about the infusion of new funding that will be needed to fulfill an ambitious plan to end homelessness in Dane County by 2015.