On the morning of April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded in a truck parked at the entrance of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Four blocks away, Nancy Anthony '73 M.A., '74 M.Phil. felt the ground shake beneath her. In her office, tiles fell from the ceiling, and there was dust everywhere.
The bombing - which killed 168 people and injured another 680 - was a total shock not only to her as a longtime resident of the state's capital and largest city but to the organization she oversaw, the Oklahoma City Community Foundation (OCCF).
At the foundation, where she was executive director at the time, Anthony was used to working with donors who wanted to help the Oklahoma City community. But the foundation wasn't exactly in the business of disaster relief. Within days, that changed.
"No, we were not going to go down there and dig through the rubble," she remembered recently. "We weren't going to sit at the Red Cross and hold people's hands. But we could try to coordinate the services that were going to be necessary for these people after those first few weeks."
