FN&C Now
Volume 5, Number 20 – May 19, 2004
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IN THIS ISSUE
NEWS COVERAGE: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation names ten community health leaders; Greater Milwaukee Foundation honors Wisconsin scientists
JUST PUBLISHED: Minnesota nonprofits serving youth development face funding and service declines
AT THE COUNCIL: Register for online team leadership courses; sign up for Breaking News
ACT NOW: Sign up for workshops on funding advocacy in San Francisco or New York
ON THE MOVE: Samuel J. Salkin (Goldman); Kathy Lewis (Christopher Reeve); Betsy Miller Landis, et. al (Jewish Women's Foundation); Dave Frohnmayer (Ford Family); Kent A. Arnold, et al. (Community Health)
NEWS COVERAGE
COMMUNITY HEALTH LEADERS: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named ten 2004 Community Health Leaders: Judy Bentley, president and CEO, Community Health-in-Partnership Services, St. Louis, MO; Carol Carothers, executive director, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Maine, Augusta, ME; Raymond Figueroa, executive director, Turning Point/Discipleship Outreach Ministries, Brooklyn, NY; Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, founder and national director, Kids Kicking Cancer, Birmingham, MI; Francois Leconte, president and CEO, Minority Development and Empowerment, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL; Zara Marselian, CEO, La Maestra Family Clinic, San Diego, CA; Gwendolyn Mastin, CEO, New Phoenix Assistance Center, Chicago, IL; Carole Morison, executive director, DelMarVa Poultry Justice Alliance, Pocomoke City, MD; Lon Newman, executive director, Family Planning Health Services, Inc., Wausau, WI; Susan Reyna, executive director, Mujeres Unidas en Justicia, Educacion y Reforma, Inc., Homestead, FL. The program awards $120,000 each—$105,000 to enhance their program and a $15,000 personal award—to individuals who have expanded access to healthcare and social services for the underserved in their communities. The winners will be honored on June 16 in Washington, DC. Read more:
http://www.rwjf.org/news/releaseDetail.jsp?id=1084148004343&contentGroup=rwjfrelease .
SCIENTISTS HONORED: The Greater Milwaukee Foundation honored two University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists with its 2004 Shaw Scientist Award. The $200,000 award is unrestricted, allowing scientists to use it to pursue the speculative research that forms the backbone of scientific discovery. Helen E. Blackwell, assistant professor in the university's department of chemistry, will use the award for her work in the development of microwave-assisted organic reactions; Karen M. Wassarman, assistant professor in the department of bacteriology, will use the award to study small RNAs (sRNAs) in bacteria. The foundation created the awards in 1982 with a bequest from Dorothy Shaw, who directed that the fund be used to advance research in the fields of biochemistry, biological science and cancer research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and Milwaukee. Read more: http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/9822.html .
JUST PUBLISHED
YOUTH CUTBACKS: Recent declines in funding have forced nonprofits serving youth in Minnesota to reduce or even eliminate programs and services, according to a new report by the Minnesota Council on Foundations (MCF). In Supporting Minnesota's Youth: The State of the State's Youth Development Funding, only 12 percent of nonprofits surveyed say their youth development programs are well-funded from all sources. Recent declines in funding have forced more than 90 percent to cut staff and hours, eliminate programs, or reduce service levels and quality for their youth development programs. Twenty-five percent say they are serving fewer youth. The study marks MCF's first comprehensive, qualitative research on youth development funding. Read more or download the report (PDF): http://www.mcf.org/MCF/giving/youthreport.htm .
AT THE COUNCIL
TEAM LEADERSHIP: Are you interested in reaching new levels of teamwork? The Council on Foundations has partnered with ManagementVitality Inc. to provide Council members with discounted online leadership courses that lead to personal growth. The Teamwork Plus! course shows how leadership tools can be employed so complete teams can have an impact on organizational outcomes. Enrollment is $125 for individuals; $100 dollars for each member of any team of four or more. Courses begin May 24 and July 7. Read more or register: http://www.managementvitality.com/cofmessages .
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ACT NOW
FUNDING ADVOCACY: "A Funder's Guide to Supporting Advocacy: The Rules for Private and Public Foundations" will be held June 8 in San Francisco. Charity law experts from Alliance for Justice will lead the workshop, which is cosponsored by Northern California Grantmakers, Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Philanthropy NW, San Diego Grantmakers and the Southern California Association for Philanthropy. The same workshop will be held in New York City June 28, cosponsored by the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers and Delaware Valley Grantmakers. Read more or register for the San Francisco workshop: http://www.allianceforjustice.org/events/eventDetail.asp?eid=655 .
Read more or register for the New York City workshop: http://www.allianceforjustice.org/events/eventDetail.asp?eid=654 .
ON THE MOVE
SAMUEL J. SALKIN is the new executive director of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the Goldman Environmental Prize. Read more: http://www.goldmanfund.org/news/pressreleases_05172004.phpx .
KATHY LEWIS joined the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation as president and CEO. Read more: http://www.christopherreeve.org/Home/Home.cfm?ID=852&c=51 .
BETSY MILLER LANDIS is the new president of The Jewish Women's Foundation of New York. Eight new vice presidents joined the foundation: CAROL GOLDSMITH, NAOMI KRONISH, AVIVA D. BUDD, BARBARA HOROWITZ, MADY CASLOW, JUDITH ATLAS RAFF, PEGGY GARFUNKEL and ENID HOWARD. New officers are: BARBARA ZUCKERBERG, treasurer; ANITA SANDS, secretary; and MURIEL GOLDBERG, SARI MILLER and ELAINE POHL MOORE, executive committee members at large.
The Ford Family Foundation named DAVE FROHNMAYER to its board of directors.
KENT A. ARNOLD, MARILYN J. BAADER AND ANGEL ALFONSO GUTIERREZ, M.D. were appointed to the board of the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York. Officers re-elected to the board were: EDWARD J. MARINE, M.D., as chair; GEORGE S. DEPTULA, attorney with Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, as vice chair; JAMES H. ABBOTT, former CEO of St. Joseph's Hospital, as secretary; STEPHEN C. AMES, former executive vice president, Marine Midland Bank (now HSBC Bank USA), as treasurer.
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