FN&C Now
Volume 5, Number 22 – June 1, 2004
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IN THIS ISSUE
NEWS COVERAGE: Funding for Arts month begins; report addresses arts in Maricopa County, Arizona; Luce foundation passes $100 million in funding for American art
NOW ONLINE: Web resource helps funders assess grantmaking impact
JUST PUBLISHED: Study shows more health insurance companies collecting data on race and ethnicity
AT THE COUNCIL: Preliminary reports on community foundation investments released; sign up for Breaking News
ON THE MOVE: Kathryn S. Fuller and Paul A. Allaire (Ford); Martha Choe (Bill & Melinda Gates); David Fischer and George Baxter (Tampa Bay); George A. Strait, Jr. (American Legacy); Allison Fine and Patrick Corvington (Innonet)
NEWS COVERAGE
ARTS FUNDING, PART I: June is Funding for Arts month at the Foundation Center, so they are hosting arts-related workshops at each center location, publishing a special issue of Philanthropy News Digest and launching PubHub, an online repository of arts-related reports funded or issued by grantmakers. Also, individual artists can get a free one-week subscription to Foundation Grants to Individuals Online during June. Find out more: http://www.fdncenter.org/focus/arts/;jsessionid=QNLSLC0T0QDF4P
5QALRSGW15AAAACI2F .
ARTS FUNDING, PART II: The Maricopa Regional Arts and Culture Task Force completed a report on the business impact of culture, "Vibrant Culture - Thriving Economy," which includes a set of strategies to advance arts and culture in Arizona's Valley of the Sun. The Flinn Foundation, The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, the J.W. Kieckhefer Foundation and the Margaret T. Morris Foundation combined resources to fund the work of the task force and the regional analysis, part of a multiyear effort by the foundations to strengthen the arts and culture infrastructure in the region. Read a summary or access the report (PDF): http://www.flinn.org/arts/article.cms/itemid=a_fn_actf_finalrep .
ARTS FUNDING, PART III: With the completion of its 2003 grants cycle, the Henry Luce Foundation passed the $100 million threshold in funding for the study and presentation of American art. Since the inception of the American Art Program in 1982, the foundation has supported approximately 200 exhibitions, more than 250 dissertation fellowships, more than 100 projects to catalogue museums' permanent collections and the establishment of four publicly accessible study centers. Read more: http://www.hluce.org/3amartfm.html .
NOW ONLINE
ASSESSING IMPACT: GrantBenefit, a new web resource from Community Foundations of Canada, can help foundations and other funders measure and demonstrate the impact of their grantmaking. Developed in consultation with community foundations, Philanthropic Foundations of Canada, The Muttart Foundation, the Ontario Trillium Foundation and other funders, the site provides grantmakers with a framework for assessing whether grants are making a difference; approaches for determining whether their foundations are making good grants; and more than 40 practical tools to use in reviewing their organizations' activities and community benefits. GrantBenefit can be found at http://www.grantbenefit.org .
JUST PUBLISHED
MINORITY REPORTING: According to a study released today by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and America's Health Insurance Plans, half of responding health insurance companies now collect data on the race and ethnicity of their members. This data is essential to addressing the gaps in care minorities often experience in the United States. Since 68 percent of health insurance plans collecting data report initiating their programs in 1998 or later (with 35 percent beginning data collection as recently as 2002 or 2003), the results of the study point to substantial progress in this area. Read more: http://www.rwjf.org/news/releaseDetail.jsp?id=1085491315604&contentGroup=rwjfrelease .
AT THE COUNCIL
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INVESTMENTS: Preliminary tables on investment performance, asset allocation and multiyear and calendar year performance of 167 community foundations and 188 portfolios (21 foundations are in both corporate and trust form) are now online for Council members. The final report's executive summary, key tables and individual multiyear and calendar year performance will be released on the web the week of July 19. The full report will be distributed in late September, two weeks before the 2004 Fall Conference for Community Foundations. View the tables: http://www.cof.org/index.cfm?containerID=39 .
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ON THE MOVE
KATHRYN S. FULLER, president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, was elected chair of the Ford Foundation board, succeeding PAUL A. ALLAIRE. Read more: http://www.fordfound.org/news/view_news_detail.cfm?news_index=143 .
MARTHA CHOE was named director of the Global Library Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She will join the foundation in November. Read more: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Libraries/Announcements/announce-040526.htm .
DAVID FISCHER is the new president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay. GEORGE BAXTER, founding president of the foundation, will serve as president emeritus.
GEORGE A. STRAIT, JR., was appointed to the board of directors of the American Legacy Foundation.
Innovation Network, Inc. (Innonet) promoted ALLISON FINE, founder and former executive director, to president, and PATRICK CORVINGTON, director of consulting and training, to executive director.
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