GREAT WHITE Nightclub Fire: Philanthropist Will Match Donations To STATION FUND

March 22, 2007

Jessica Selby of the Kent County Daily Times reports that philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein is coming to the aid of the Station Fire Fund.

Feinstein said he was so moved by an article that appeared in the Providence Journal on the anniversary of the Station Fire [which started at a GREAT WHITE concert] that he was inspired to create a "$100,000 Challenge" matching grant.

The article in the Journal outlined the declining support for the Station Fire Fund and its forced change in focus as a result of that decline. Ed Walton, assistant director for the Alan Shawn Feinstein Foundation, said Feinstein was so taken aback by the waning support for a group with "such a wonderful cause" he felt compelled to act.

"As everyone knows, Alan Shawn Feinstein is a very generous man," Walton said. "After reading the article in the newspaper, he became aware of the great need that still existed among these people and he admired the work that this organization was doing to assist them, so, when he learned that their funds were down, he said he felt the need to help replenish those funds."

What Feinstein did was establish a grant that matches each and every dollar, up to $100,000, that is donated to the fund.

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