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Volume 5, Number 37 – September 24, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE NEWS COVERAGE: Heifer International wins Hilton Humanitarian Prize; $10 million will aid persecuted scholars; Ann Castle and Cecilia Hogan receive APRA awards JUST PUBLISHED: Guide to communication-centered technology planning; Blackbaud survey finds nonprofit sector strong AT THE COUNCIL: CFSource reports on tools for financial planning; sign up for Breaking News ACT NOW: Register for the Fall Conference for Community Foundations or the Grantmakers for Education conference ON THE MOVE: Lori Bezahler and Barbara A. Taveras (Hazen); Marci B. Sternheim and David Dibner (Dibner); Deborah Brody Hamilton (Association of Small Foundations); Beverly A. Coulson and Erica Greeley, et al. (NCNA); Takia Glover and Tracy Locke, et al. (Council on Foundations); Donald Kennedy (Packard); Peter deCourcy Hero (Calpine) NEWS COVERAGE HILTON PRIZE: Heifer International is the recipient of the 2004 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The $1 million prize, the world's largest humanitarian award, will be presented at a ceremony on October 28, 2004, in New York City. Based in Little Rock, Arkansas, Heifer International provides poor families in 50 countries with cows and other livestock, plus agricultural training that helps them become self-sustaining. "Ideas on how to help the poor in our work come and go," says Hilton Foundation President Steven Hilton, "but Heifer has produced a model that has endured for 60 years." Read more: http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/press_release_details.asp?id=34 . HELPING SCHOLARS: Economist/philanthropist Henry Kaufman gave an unprecedented $10 million to support the Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund. The fund provides life- and career-saving grants to scholars who are persecuted in their home countries, enabling them to continue their work in the United States and other safe locations. Read more: http://www.iie.org/Content/ContentGroups/News/Dr__Henry_Kaufman_Announces_ $10_Million_Gift_-_Institute_Will_Use_Monies_To_Rescue_Scholars1.htm . APRA AWARDS: The Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA) has given Ann Castle the newly created APRA Visionary Award, posthumously. Castle was an expert on women and philanthropy who passed away in 2000 after a brief illness. The award was created to recognize APRA members who have served as trailblazers in the field. APRA also presented its Distinguished Service Award for 2004 to Cecilia Hogan, development researcher at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Hogan is a frequent presenter on the field of advancement research, a founding member of the editorial team for the Internet Prospector and author of Prospect Research: A Primer for Growing Nonprofits. Read more: http://www.aprahome.org/aboutapra/awards.html . JUST PUBLISHED TECHNOLOGY PLANNING: The Gilbert Center's new guide, Communication Centered Technology Planning, by Michael C. Gilbert, compiles 122 of the best communication-centered technology planning resources from Nonprofit Online News since spring 2001. Information is organized into 14 categories, including communication and collaboration, communities and networks, knowledge management, stakeholders and systems thinking. Read more or order: http://news.gilbert.org/clickThru/redir/5215/4417/rms . NONPROFITS STRONG: Blackbaud, provider of software and related services for the nonprofit sector, released results from its inaugural "State of the Nonprofit Industry" survey. Of the 1,319 people surveyed, 59 percent reported budget increases this year, despite the struggling economy. In addition, 96 percent of nonprofits expect to either maintain or add to executive/management staffing levels this year and 57 percent reported growth in donations from individuals. While 75 percent indicated a rise in demand for the services they provide, that increased demand has created challenges. More than two-thirds (68 percent) reported that raising money to fund services was a top management concern. Read more or download the survey (PDF): http://www.blackbaud.com/company/DisplayPressRelease.asp?ID=152 . AT THE COUNCIL CFSOURCE: The September CFSource reports on new members of the Community Foundations Leadership Team, developments in the creation of an interactive strategy model to assist community foundations in forecasting the outcomes of different cost/revenue scenarios, and What's the Big 'Deal'? Financial Institutions Portfolio, a free set of turnkey resources to help community foundations negotiate co-marketing agreements with local financial services firms to offer donor-advised funds to their clients. The issue also previews activities at the upcoming Fall Conference for Community Foundations. Council members may read the issue at: http://www.cof.org/Content/Newsletter/Display.cfm?newsletterID=2019 . 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 FALL CONFERENCE: Join your community foundation colleagues for the 2004 Fall Conference for Community Foundations held in Minneapolis/St. Paul October 11–13, 2004 (pre-conference activities begin October 7). The conference's theme is "Delivering on Our Promise: Impact, Innovation and Integrity." Plenary speakers include Michael Ciresi, chairman of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP; and Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic, Inc., and author of Authentic Leadership. With fees earned from the $6.6 billion settlement in the Minnesota tobacco lawsuit, Ciresi's law firm created a $30 million public foundation (a supporting organization of The Minneapolis Foundation) to fund K-12 education, public health and social justice programs. George will share his insights and describe the kind of leadership needed to fulfill foundations' vast potential. Read more or register: http://int2.cof.org/conferences/fall2004/registration.htm . EDUCATION CONFERENCE: Join education grantmaking colleagues in Atlanta this October 18–20 at Grantmakers for Education's annual conference. The conference theme is "Keeping America's Promise: Class, Race, Gender and National Origin in Education." The conference will examine responsive grantmaking strategies that can help get at root problems causing unequal education results. Key speakers include Ambassador Andrew Young, Harvard legal scholar and author Charles Ogletree and former Governors Jim Hunt (NC) and Roy Barnes (GA). Breakout sessions and site visits will showcase innovative grantmaking strategies and provide opportunities to examine problems and debate solutions. A one-day concurrent Foundation Leaders Institute will help trustees and CEOs grapple with big-picture issues of foundation effectiveness in education. Read the conference program or register (deadline October 1): http://www.edfunders.org/programs/conference . ON THE MOVE The Edward W. Hazen Foundation named LORI BEZAHLER president. She succeeds BARBARA A. TAVERAS, who will leave the foundation in December after 12 years of service. Bezahler has served as the foundation's public education program officer for the past four years. The Dibner Fund promoted MARCI B. STERNHEIM to the position of president. Sternheim joined the fund in 1998 as its first executive director; she succeeds DAVID DIBNER. Dibner, who has been president since 1989, is now chairman. DEBORAH BRODY HAMILTON becomes director of member services at the Association of Small Foundations September 27. The National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA) hired BEVERLY A. COULSON as director of development & communications, ERICA GREELEY as director of strategic policy planning and CEQUYNA MOORE as a membership and communications associate. In October, QUITRINA DIAZ will join NCNA as membership and communications associate. TRACY LOCKE, formerly coordinator, Communications and Membership at the Council on Foundations, is now coordinator of operations for Community Foundation Services at the Council. TAKIA GLOVER joined as research coordinator and GABRIELA SCHNEIDER joined as media relations coordinator. JIM AYRE will become web content manager September 29. 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