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	Volume 6, Number 7 – March 3, 2005 IN THIS ISSUE NEWS COVERAGE: Interim report advises Senate Finance Committee on improving sector's accountability; new fund to foster economic development AWARDS ROUNDUP: Film & Video Festival winners and Henry Hampton Award winners announced; Oscar goes to Film & Video Festival winner; Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award winners announced; first Changemakers.net Innovation Award winners selected AT THE COUNCIL: Family Matters gives IRS audit wrap-up; CEO Links highlights upcoming annual conference; sign up for Breaking News JUST PUBLISHED: Family Giving News focuses on perpetuity and spending out; lessons outlined for successful funding collaboratives; report says students of color lag behind in pursuing higher education NOW ONLINE: Transcript of discussion on vision and philanthropy available ON THE MOVE: Fran Ginsburg (International Sephardic Education); Barbara Kibbe and Mark Fuller (Center for Effective Philanthropy); Cristina Regalado, Karen Voci and Margaret O'Bryon, et al. (Grantmakers In Health); Gwen Walden (California Endowment); Joseph Mouzon (Groundspring.org) NEWS COVERAGE STRENGTHEN CHARITIES: At a March 1 press conference, members of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector delivered an interim report to the Senate Finance Committee with recommendations for strengthening charitable organizations. The panel, which will issue a final report in June, makes recommendations in 15 major areas, including actions to be taken by the nonprofit sector, by the IRS and by Congress. Read more or download the report (PDF): http://www.cof.org/index.cfm?containerid=64&CFID=4437633&CFTOKEN=97939316 . DEVELOPMENT EFFORT: Sixty-five foundations and other organizations formed the Fund for Our Economic Future, a three-year, $30 million program to help foster economic development in Northeast Ohio. Many of the region's cities, such as Cleveland, Canton, Akron and Youngstown, face challenging economies. Grantmakers include the George Gund, Cleveland and Knight foundations and the Akron Community Foundation. The fund's "Voices & Choices" program will launch an unprecedented citizen engagement process to get community input for the region's agenda. Find out more: http://www.futurefundneo.org . AWARDS ROUNDUP FILM & VIDEO WINNERS: Now in its 38th year, the Film & Video Festival is co-sponsored by the Council on Foundations and Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media. Today, the 14 festival winners were announced, including four Henry Hampton Award winners: Farmingville, In the Light of Reverence, Refugee and Trembling Before G-D. Council President and CEO Dorothy S. Ridings said, "This award provides special recognition for projects that honor the spirit of the independent filmmaker whose evocative stories bring critical issues to life." Read the press release: http://www.cof.org/Content/PressRelease/Display.cfm?pressReleaseID=2425 . Information on festival films, streaming video clips, previous festival selections, submission information and other resources are featured online at http://www.fundfilm.org . OSCAR WINNER: 2005 Film & Video Festival winner Born Into Brothels won an Academy Award for best documentary Sunday. Photographer Zana Briski lived and worked with prostitutes in Calcutta, India, and sought to help children who lived in their mothers' brothels by teaching them photography and making the world aware of their plight. Co-directed by Briski and Ross Kauffman, the documentary was funded by the Jerome, Fireman and Swartz foundations. Read more: http://www.kids-with-cameras.org/oscar . CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY: The Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) presented this year's Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Awards to GE, Novartis and Arch Chemicals. The awards are presented annually to companies demonstrating outstanding executive commitment, dedication to measurement and innovation in corporate philanthropy. The Directors Award was given to Jumpstart, a national nonprofit that helps low-income preschool children succeed in school. The award recognizes a nonprofit for demonstrating exceptional partnerships with corporations and is accompanied by a $25,000 cash donation made by CECP Directors. Founded by Ken Derr and Paul Newman, CECP is the only national forum of business CEOs and chairpersons exclusively focused on corporate philanthropy. Read more (PDF): http://www.corphilanthropy.org/excellenceawards/2004winners22805.pdf . INNOVATION AWARDS: Website visitors selected the winners of the first Changemakers.net Innovation Awards: the Anti-Child-Prostitution Campaign, Garden of Hope Foundation, Taiwan; Empowering Migrants and Harnessing Remittances for Development, Unlad Kabayan Migrant Services Foundation, Inc. (Unlad), Philippines; Mazury Station-The Center of Developing Professional Activities, Fundacja Szansa (Chance Foundation), Poland; School To School, GOONJ, India; and The Second Hand Tools Project, Men on the Side of the Road, South Africa. The winners were selected for having the most innovative, compelling and replicable ideas for generating money and other resources needed to sustain an organization from a citizen base of support. Read more: http://www.changemakers.net/journal/04november/contest.cfm . AT THE COUNCIL FAMILY MATTERS: The winter 2005 Family Matters provides information on the Internal Revenue Service's market segment study of private foundations this fiscal year, which targets approximately 400 foundations. The issue also includes information on e-filing, a clarification of foundation support for public charity lobbying, potential state regulation, a Q&A on the Congressional outlook and Family Foundation Services leadership transitions. Read the issue: http://www.cof.org/Content/Newsletter/Display.cfm?newsletterID=2398 . CEO LINKS: A special issue of CEO Links gives foundation leaders an overview of activities designed especially for them at the Council on Foundations 2005 Annual Conference, to be held April 9–11 in San Diego. Special events are planned to allow foundation leaders to see where foundation management and field leadership are going and to share perspectives with their peers. Find out more: http://www.cof.org/Content/General/Display.cfm?contentID=2405 . Register for the conference at http://int2.cof.org/conferences/AC2005/index.htm . 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. JUST PUBLISHED FAMILY GIVING NEWS: The March issue of Family Giving News explores an issue all family philanthropists face-should they establish a perpetual foundation or create a vehicle to spend out their endowments? Or, might both options be appropriate? This issue also features the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation's report, Fifty Years of Philanthropy. Read more or subscribe: http://www.ncfp.org/Email_Alert.html . COLLABORATIVE SUCCESS: Although there is no formula for creating effective funding collaboratives, flexible groups supported by a regional association of grantmakers are more likely to succeed, says a report by the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers (ABAG). Local Donor Collaboration: Lessons From Baltimore and Beyond, written by Alice C. Buhl, summarizes how collaboratives get started, what sustains them and which principles and practices are effective. It also presents case studies of four types of funding collaboratives affiliated with ABAG. Read more or download the report (PDF): http://www.abagmd.org/info-url2446/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=230604 . PURSUING HIGHER ED: A new report from the American Council on Education shows that students of color have made significant gains in college enrollment, but still lag behind their white counterparts in rates of pursuing higher education. Minorities in Higher Education Twenty-first Annual Status Report (2003–2004) found that from 1991 to 2001, college enrollment of minorities rose by approximately 52 percent. But, even with this progress, only 40 percent of African Americans and 34 percent of Hispanics attended college, compared with 45 percent of whites. The report was funded by the Coca-Cola and GE foundations. Find out more: http://www.acenet.edu/hena/readArticle.cfm?articleID=1222 . NOW ONLINE VISION AND PHILANTHROPY: The transcript of the Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal's February 16 symposium, "Vision and Philanthropy," is now online. Panelists addressed the questions, "What is conservative vision?" and "What can philanthropy do to support it?" in their prepared essays (also online) and the discussion. The panel included Stuart Butler, Linda Chavez, William Kristol, Grover Norquist and Robert Woodson, Sr. and Peter Wehner, White House director of strategic initiatives, gave the keynote. Read more (PDF): http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/Vision_Symposium_Transcript.pdf . ON THE MOVE FRAN GINSBURG was named executive director of the International Sephardic Education Foundation. The Center for Effective Philanthropy elected BARBARA KIBBE to a three-year term on the board of directors. MARK FULLER was re-elected to a second three-year term. Read more: http://www.effectivephilanthropy.org/news/pressreleases/news_pr_022805.html . Grantmakers In Health elected CRISTINA REGALADO board vice chair, KAREN VOCI board secretary and MARGARET O'BRYON member-at-large. JAMES R. KIMMEY, ANN F. MONROE and ROBERT K. ROSS are new directors. Read more: http://www.gih.org/newsletter2679/newsletter_show.htm?doc_id=263583 . The California Endowment appointed GWEN WALDEN director of the Community Conference and Resource Center to be opened in spring 2006 at the foundation's downtown Los Angeles headquarters. Read more: http://www.calendow.org/news/press_releases/2005/01/022505.stm . JOSEPH MOUZON is now executive director of Groundspring.org. Read more: http://www.groundspring.org/about/030105.cfm . 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. 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