FN&C Now
Volume 5, Number 24 – June 17, 2004
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IN THIS ISSUE
NEWS COVERAGE: Report highlights opportunity to mobilize millions of aging boomers as community volunteers
NOW ONLINE: Transcript of discussion on foundations in a liberal, democratic society; Give2Asia.org's redesigned website
JUST PUBLISHED: CEO Links focuses on governance proposals; Kellogg's Russell G. Mawby featured in new book on uncommon lives
AT THE COUNCIL: CFSource reports on upcoming board decisionmaking study, lack of recognition of community foundations by the affluent; sign up for Breaking News
ACT NOW: Register for 2004 Summer Institutes; share recommended reading on leadership
ON THE MOVE: Sharon Osborne (Consuelo); Meta Godsell and Erin C. Hallock (Siragusa); Nancy M. Schlichting and Paul C. Hillegonds (Kresge); Cathy R. Silak and Alice Hennessey (Idaho Community); Charles Bolton (Cleveland)
NEWS COVERAGE
REINVENTING AGING: According to Reinventing Aging: Baby Boomers and Civic Engagement, the oldest of the baby boomers will turn 65 in seven years, with an average life expectancy of 83. These extra years, unique in human history, can be considered a new stage of life. As some of the demands of mid-life recede, boomers have the potential to become a tremendous social resource by actively participating in the life of their communities. The report, sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health-MetLife Foundation Initiative on Retirement and Civic Engagement, tries to determine whether boomers will do so. Read more or download the report (PDF): http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/reinventingaging/index.htm .
NOW ONLINE
PURPOSE OF PHILANTHROPY: The Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal released an online transcript of its May 5 roundtable discussion with Columbia University's Kenneth Prewitt on the place and purpose of philanthropy in a modern, liberal democracy. The discussion's centerpiece was Prewitt's recent essay, "The Foundation and the Liberal Society." Read the essay and transcript (PDF) at: http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/foundation_liberal.pdf .
GIVE2ASIA REDESIGN: The redesigned Give2Asia.org website now lists in geographical order the projects and funds administered by the group since its founding and features a catalog of priority projects identified by Give2Asia staff in 17 countries across Asia. The site also includes new project photos. Give2Asia was founded by The Asia Foundation to promote philanthropy in Asia. Find out more: http://www.Give2Asia.org .
JUST PUBLISHED
CEO LINKS: The June/July issue of CEO Links includes draft foundation operating and governance principles from the Council on Foundations' "Building Strong and Ethical Foundations: Doing It Right" initiative. It also provides information on regional meetings for the initiative, announces a search for new members for the COF Executive Education Committee and gives a roundup of foundation management tools. CEO Links is a project of the Executive Education department and the Advisory Committee for Executive Programs, a committee of private foundation executives championing leadership development. Read the issue: http://www.cof.org/files/Documents/Newsletters/
CEOLinks/2004/CEOLinksJune2004.doc .
UNCOMMON LIVES: Russell G. Mawby, former CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is one of the people celebrated in a new book, Common People, Uncommon Lives. In "Just Call Me Russ," author Jan Corey Arnett describes the family heritage, values, faith and personal side of Mawby, who is known for his work in grantmaking across many disciplines. A second story, "Kaylowa," describes Mawby's special relationship with a prized Arabian horse, a descendant of the W.K. Kellogg herd. The book may be purchased at: http://www.jancoreyarnett.com/uncommonlives.html .
AT THE COUNCIL
CFSOURCE: The June 2004 CFSource reports on a study being undertaken by Ohio University and BoardSource on the strategic organizational decisionmaking of community foundation boards. It also discusses a National Marketing Action Team study that shows there is low awareness of community foundations among the affluent. This issue provides registration information for the upcoming conference, "Resource Development for Community Foundations," June 22–23, in Washington, DC. Council members may read the issue at: http://www.cof.org/Content/General/Display.cfm?CONTENTID=697 .
FREE NEWS SERVICE: Breaking News is a free, daily e-mail newsletter summarizing the top articles—mostly from national and regional newspapers—about philanthropy. Breaking News is available to Council members only. Subscribe by e-mailing your name, title and foundation name to media@cof.org.
ACT NOW
SUMMER INSTITUTES: The 2004 Summer Institutes, held July 18–21 in San Francisco, offer new foundation staff and board members—and those interested in establishing a new foundation—workshops on philanthropy basics with respected leaders in the field. Can't make the Summer Institutes? Come to Washington, DC, this December 6–9 for the East Coast Winter Institutes. For more information, contact education@cof.org or the Council on Foundations executive education staff at 202/467-0423.
SUMMER READING: Foundation executive staff, please send your recommendations for books and articles on leadership or philanthropy to share with your colleagues to leaders@cof.org. Executive staff "good reads" will be published in a special edition of CEO Links this summer.
ON THE MOVE
In January 2005, SHARON OSBORNE will become head of the Consuelo Foundation.
Program Officer META GODSELL is leaving The Siragusa Foundation on June 25 to move to Seattle. ERIN C. HALLOCK will take over her duties as grants manager.
The Kresge Foundation elected two new trustees, NANCY M. SCHLICHTING and PAUL C. HILLEGONDS.
CATHY R. SILAK is now president and CEO of the Idaho Community Foundation. She succeeded ALICE HENNESSEY, who retired June 1. Read more: http://www.idcomfdn.org/pdf/silak_announcement.pdf .
The Cleveland Foundation appointed CHARLES (CHARLIE) BOLTON to its board of directors. Read more: http://www.clevelandfoundation.org/newsarticle.cfm?
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