FN&C Now
Volume 5, Number 28 - July 16, 2004
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IN THIS ISSUE
NEWS COVERAGE: Jack Kent Cooke Foundation gives 39 scholarships; corporate giving can encourage customers to be charitable; Whitaker foundation funds thought-controlled computer interface
JUST PUBLISHED: CFSource announces update to the National Standards
AT THE COUNCIL: Register for the Fall Conference for Community Foundations; sign up for Breaking News
ON THE MOVE: Edward E. Penhoet and Lewis W. Coleman (Moore); John W. Daniels, Jr., and Kent E. Gammon (Greater Milwaukee); Ruth E. Williams (Community Technology); Mike Johnson, Karen Diver and James Hamilton (Blandin); Laura J. Trudeau and Alice L. Carle (Kresge)
NEWS COVERAGE
LARGEST SCHOLARSHIPS: The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation named 39 recent college graduates as Jack Kent Cooke Scholars. The scholars receive an annual award of up to $50,000 each for the length of their graduate or professional degree programs—the largest offered by a private foundation in the United States. Recipients attended colleges in 20 states and the District of Columbia and are natives of ten countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe. Since the program's 2002 inception, the foundation has awarded 132 graduate scholarships worth $24 million. Read more: http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/jkcf_web/content.aspx?page=1775372 .
CORPORATE GIVING: At the University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business, researcher Donald Lichtenstein confirmed that customers who view a corporation as socially responsible reward the company by buying more. He also found that customers' positive feelings about the company can extend to third parties, particularly nonprofits with whom the corporation has partnered. The original survey of 508 shoppers at four grocery stores in two Colorado cities was followed by three laboratory experiments. One surprising finding: Some consumers are more likely to donate to a corporate-supported nonprofit if the corporation's record of socially responsible behavior is weak, because they want to support a company that's changing its ways. Read more: http://leeds.colorado.edu/about/interior.aspx?id=525,585,1455 .
MIND CONTROL: Four adults quickly learned to play—and win—a simple video game using only their thoughts to control the computer. They were involved in an experiment to demonstrate how using thought-controlled computer interfaces for tasks, such as moving artificial limbs, could give disabled people a measure of self-sufficiency. Daniel Moran, who received a 2002 Biomedical Engineering Research Grant from The Whitaker Foundation for similar studies of motor control in arm movements, collaborated with Dr. Eric Leuthardt on this study at Washington University in St. Louis. The Whitaker Foundation, which supports research and education in biomedical engineering, intends to spend out its assets in 2006. Read more: http://www.whitaker.org/news/moran.html .
JUST PUBLISHED
CFSOURCE: The July 2004 CFSource celebrates its one-year anniversary with the results of a reader survey. It also announces an update to the National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations, which now include a definition for "U.S. Community Foundation." A forthcoming resource, the Financial Institutions Marketing Portfolio, is also outlined. The portfolio includes materials that help community foundations turn potential competitors into development partners. CFSource is published by the Council on Foundations and the Community Foundations Leadership Team. Council members may read the issue at:
http://www.cof.org/Content/Newsletter/Display.cfm?newsletterID=1837 .
AT THE COUNCIL
FALL CONFERENCE: Join your community foundations colleagues for the 20th Fall Conference for Community Foundations, held in Minneapolis October 11–13, 2004 (pre-conference activities begin October 7). The conference's theme is "Delivering on Our Promise: Impact, Innovation and Integrity." One new conference feature is The Tool Shop, which will provide comprehensive information about Community Foundation Leadership Team products and services. It will also include software and database demonstrations, tutorials and help sessions. Read more or register: http://int2.cof.org/conferences/fall2004/registration.htm .
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ON THE MOVE
On September 1, 2004, EDWARD E. PENHOET will become president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He will succeed LEWIS W. COLEMAN, who is retiring. Read more: http://www.moore.org/news_pr_071404edp_president.asp .
JOHN W. DANIELS, JR., joined the board of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. KENT E. GAMMON joined the foundation as chief financial officer. Read more: http://www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org/content/view_article.xpl?article_id=81 http://www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org/content/view_article.xpl?article_id=82 .
The Community Technology Foundation of California appointed RUTH E. WILLIAMS program officer. Read more: http://zerodivide.org/announcements/130 .
MIKE JOHNSON, provost of Itasca Community College, KAREN DIVER, director of special projects for the Fond du Lac Reservation and JAMES HAMILTON, director of Human Services at Swift & Company, were named to the Blandin Foundation board of trustees.
The Kresge Foundation promoted LAURA J. TRUDEAU to senior program officer. ALICE L. CARLE joined the foundation as program officer.
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