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Volume 5, Number 40 – October 15, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE NEWS COVERAGE: Panel convened on nonprofit governance; Ford Foundation announces Leadership for a Changing World winners JUST PUBLISHED: Stanford Social Innovation Review focuses on achieving impact AT THE COUNCIL: Ask the U.S. Treasury Department to reconsider anti-terrorist guidelines; International Dateline focuses on donor-advised funds; sign up for Breaking News ACT NOW: Register for the 2005 Family Foundation Conference; submit research proposals on unrestricted awards and overhead funding for nonprofits by November 5 ON THE MOVE: Benjamin Todd Jealous and Kirke Wilson (Rosenberg); Stephen M. Delfin (National Credit Union); Leroy Davis, Robert M. Franklin and Thomas H. Jeavons, et al. (Jessie Ball duPont); Caroline Battles, Donna Shoff and Sopheak W. Srun, et al. (Missouri Foundation for Health); Janice Gow Pettey (Sacramento Region) NEWS COVERAGE NATIONAL PANEL: Independent Sector created a national panel to make recommendations to Congress on improving the oversight and governance of charitable organizations. The Panel on the Nonprofit Sector was formed at the encouragement of Senate Finance Committee Chair Charles Grassley and Ranking Member Max Baucus, and is comprised of 25 leaders of public charities and private foundations. Paul Brest, president of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and M. Cass Wheeler, chief executive officer of the American Heart Association, are the co-conveners and its members include Council on Foundation President and CEO Dot Ridings. The Finance Committee asked the panel to provide initial findings and recommendations by February 2005 and a final report in spring 2005. Read more: http://www.independentsector.org/media/sector_panel.html . LEADERS RECOGNIZED: The Ford Foundation announced the 18 winners of the 2004 Leadership for a Changing World Awards, a partnership with the Advocacy Institute and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Each awardee receives $100,000 to advance their work and $15,000 for supporting activities during the next two years, and will participate in research exploring how leadership is created and sustained. Read more about the awardees: http://www.fordfound.org/news/view_news_detail.cfm?news_index=145 . JUST PUBLISHED SOCIAL INNOVATION: The fall issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review looks at how nonprofits with limited resources can achieve Goliath-sized missions and offers advice on marking the line between mission and strategy. It also covers corporate rebels who inspire their companies to be more socially responsible and nonprofit lobbying that could generate corporate investment in social causes. Read more or subscribe: http://www.ssireview.com . AT THE COUNCIL ANTI-TERRORIST GUIDELINES: The Council on Foundations wants your feedback and action on rules affecting overseas grantmaking by foundations and others. The Council convened a 25-organization task force to draft "Principles of International Charity," an alternative proposal to the U.S. Treasury Department's voluntary guidelines. Once the "Principles" are final, the group will attempt to persuade Treasury to make changes in its recommendations. Comments are due to Rob Buchanan no later than Monday, October 25, at buchr@cof.org (202/467-0391). Read more: http://www.cof.org/Content/General/Display.cfm?contentID=2073 . INTERNATIONAL DATELINE: The Fourth Quarter 2004 International Dateline outlines the Council's position on two proposals on donor-advised funds and international grantmaking included in the June 2004 Senate Finance Committee staff discussion draft. The issue also includes a conversation with Holly Sampson about the Global Awareness Fund of the Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, as well as a profile of the Melbourne Community Foundation of Australia. Read the issue (PDF): http://www.cof.org/files/Documents/Newsletters/InternationalDateline/2004/ID4Q2004.pdf . 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 FAMILY FOUNDATIONS: Mark your calendar for the Council on Foundations 2005 Family Foundation Conference, January 23–25, 2005 (preconference activities begin January 22), in Miami. With "Principled Giving for Family Foundations" as its theme, the conference will be the launching pad for the Council's Stewardship Principles for Family Foundations. Speakers include Dennis Archer, former mayor of Detroit and immediate past president of the American Bar Association, and Alberto Ibargüen, publisher of the Miami Herald and the Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Herald. Read more or register: http://int2.cof.org/conferences/family2005 . RESEARCH GRANTS: The Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector Research Fund is seeking proposals from researchers who are studying foundations' practices regarding unrestricted awards and overhead funding for nonprofits. Grants, which are available to individuals and institutions, will range from $10,000 to $125,000. Three-page letters of interest describing the proposed research project, methodology and dissemination plan must be e-mailed or postmarked by November 5. Find out more or download an application: http://www.nonprofitresearch.org/newsletter1525/newsletter_show.htm?doc_id=241731 . ON THE MOVE BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS will be the fourth president of Rosenberg Foundation. Jealous will succeed KIRKE WILSON, who will retire in February 2005 after 31 years with foundation. Read more: http://www.rosenbergfdn.org/whatsnew.html . STEPHEN M. DELFIN will become executive director of National Credit Union Foundation October 18. Read more: http://www.ncuf.coop/render_site.asp?sectionpath=7/40&action =viewkbcontent&actionid=&kbcontentid=220&processor=kbcontent&p_origin=7/40&p_ action=search&p_mo=6&p_mode=curr . The Jessie Ball duPont Fund appointed four new trustees: LEROY DAVIS, ROBERT M. FRANKLIN, THOMAS H. JEAVONS and AUDREY MCKIBBIN MORAN. Davis, Jeavons and Moran will begin terms as trustees in January 2005. Franklin will begin his term in January 2006, upon the retirement of trustee JEAN W. LUDLOW. Read more: http://www.dupontfund.org/news/report.asp?id=1118 . The Missouri Foundation for Health named CAROLINE BATTLES community and government liaison, DONNA SHOFF grants manager, SOPHEAK W. SRUN program associate and ANITA MORTON receptionist. Read more: http://www.mffh.org/press_release100704.php . JANICE GOW PETTEY announced her retirement as CEO of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. SUBSCRIBE FN&C Now is published by the Council on Foundations to keep you in the loop by sharing news between bimonthly editions of Foundation News & Commentary magazine (FN&C Now Web archive: http://www.foundationnews.org/now/index.htm ). Please feel free to forward this message to your friends and colleagues who might enjoy it. To subscribe (it's free) to FN&C Now, send an e-mail to fncnow@cof.org . Questions or comments about FN&C Now? Contact Paula J. Kelly at 202/467-0261. To contribute a news item for consideration, please e-mail fncnow@cof.org . To unsubscribe, send a blank e-mail to leave-fncnow-4832R@int1.cof.org . To subscribe to Foundation News & Commentary, an award-winning magazine, please send an e-mail to fncsubs@cof.org , or visit our website at http://www.icnfull.com/cgi-bin/cobolscript.exe?cof/cofmain.cbl . 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