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	Volume 6, Number 8 – March 11, 2005 IN THIS ISSUE AT THE COUNCIL: Distinguished Grantmaker, Scrivner, Ylvisaker and Rich award winners announced; recruitment firm selected for CEO search; sign up for Breaking News NEWS COVERAGE: Frank Karel wins Terrance Keenan Leadership Award; Ms. Foundation announces first Public Voices grant recipients; Community Technology Foundation named to FCC committee; Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy celebrates 15 years IN MEMORIAM: Philanthropic leader Barbara Finberg, 38-year Carnegie veteran, dies JUST PUBLISHED: Two reports released on funders’ strategies for increasing healthcare access NOW ONLINE: Study examines patterns of African-American philanthropy in Atlanta; database offers information on federal spending and needs at county level ACT NOW: Register for the 2005 Summer Institutes ON THE MOVE: Mary Sue Coleman (Knight); Barbara Yondorf (Rose); Megan Elicker, Mary LeRoy and Julia Mace (Greater Cincinnati); Anuja Mendiratta (Marin); Jan K. Malcolm (Bush) AT THE COUNCIL AWARD WINNERS: The Council on Foundations named Rien van Gendt, executive director of the Van Leer Group Foundation, 2005 recipient of the Distinguished Grantmaker Award. Nancy Latimer, senior program officer at the McKnight Foundation, won the 2005 Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking. The Maytree Foundation will receive the Paul Ylvisaker Award for Public Policy Engagement. The Council also announced the 115 winners of the Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications. All awards will be presented at the 56th Annual Conference in San Diego on April 11. Read the press release: http://www.cof.org/Content/PressRelease/Display.cfm?pressReleaseID=2443 . Read more about the winners in Foundation News & Commentary: http://www.foundationnews.org . RECRUITING: The Council selected Russell Reynolds Associates as the search firm for the next president and CEO of the organization. “The next president of the Council will be a key leader for the sector during a critical time in its growth and development,” said Search Committee Chair Maxwell King, president of the Heinz Endowments. Dorothy S. Ridings, current president and CEO, announced in December that she will retire in 2005. Read more: http://www.cof.org/Content/PressRelease/Display.cfm?pressReleaseID=2415 . 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. NEWS COVERAGE KEENAN AWARD: Grantmakers In Health awarded its Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy to Frank Karel, former vice president of communications at the Robert Wood Johnson and Rockefeller foundations. Karel was recognized for his groundbreaking work in health communications, which helped change how philanthropic organizations and their grantees engage health professionals, lawmakers and the public. Read more: http://www.gih.org/newsletter2679/newsletter_show.htm?doc_id=264723 . Read a profile of Karel in the January/February 2001 Foundation News & Commentary: http://www.foundationnews.org/CME/article.cfm?ID=150 . PUBLIC POLICY: The Ms. Foundation for Women announced its first Public Voices, Public Policy: Realizing the Power of Women of Color grant recipients. The initiative aims to diversify the voices and leaders in national, state and local public policy. Recipients are: The Rebecca Project for Human Rights, Washington, DC; Alliance for Early Childhood Professionals, Minneapolis; Asian Immigrant Woman Advocates, Oakland, California; Cangleska, Kyle, South Dakota; California Indian Basketweavers Association, Grass Valley, California; Colonias Development Council, Las Cruces, New Mexico; and National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, New York City. The program awards $75,000 for general operating support, plus provides networking opportunities and fundraising and outreach training. Read more: http://www.ms.foundation.org/wmspage.cfm?parm1=236 . NEW APPOINTMENT: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appointed the Community Technology Foundation of California to its Consumer Advisory Committee. The committee makes recommendations to the FCC regarding consumer issues and helps consumers (including people with disabilities and underserved populations, such as Native Americans and rural residents) participate in FCC proceedings. Read more: http://zerodivide.org/announcements/165 . CELEBRATING 15 YEARS: Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), the first organization dedicated to improving Asian Pacific American communities through philanthropy, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Beginning as a 39-member volunteer group, AAPIP has grown into a professionally staffed membership and advocacy organization with eight regional chapters and more than 400 members. Throughout 2005, AAPIP will hold national and local events, including an anniversary celebration April 9–10 in San Diego, in conjunction with the Council on Foundations 56th Annual Conference. Find out more: http://www.aapip.org/15years . IN MEMORIAM PHILANTHROPY LEADER: Barbara Finberg, former executive vice president at Carnegie Corporation of New York, who worked there for 38 years, died March 5 at age 76. Her work in early childhood education underscored the need for research on how babies and toddlers learn. Recognizing that no national policy existed on the early years of childhood development, Finberg began work that ultimately led to the creation and launch of PBS’s Sesame Street. She also served as a mentor to hundreds of young nonprofit professionals. Read more: http://www.carnegie.org/sub/news/finberg.html . JUST PUBLISHED IMPROVING ACCESS: Two reports released by Grantmakers In Health, Improving Health Access in Communities: Lessons for Effective Grantmaking and Funding Health Advocacy, provide information on strategies for improving access to healthcare for the most vulnerable populations. Improving Health Access in Communities highlights strategic grantmaking lessons from the Communities in Charge and Community Voices programs, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, respectively. Both initiatives seek to alleviate the burden of low insurance rates in 24 communities across the country. Download the report (PDF): http://www.gih.org/usr_doc/Improving_Health_Access_2005.pdf . Funding Health Advocacy is an issue brief on the challenges and opportunities involved with funding advocacy and engaging in public policy work. Download the report (PDF): http://www.gih.org/usr_doc/IssueBrief21_Funding_Advocacy.pdf . NOW ONLINE GIVING WEBSITE: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta launched a companion website for Giving: A Shared Inheritance, its research project on African American philanthropy. The study is the first extensive project closely examining the giving and volunteering patterns of African Americans in the region. The website includes Phase I study results. Phase II, expected to be completed this spring, will include in-depth, personal interviews and focus groups. Find out more: http://www.givingasharedinheritance.org . SPENDING AND NEEDS: The free National Priorities Project (NPP) Database offers access to information on federal spending and needs at the county level, as well as state and national data. With the NPP Database, users can search an enormous range of data from 1983 to the present, in such categories as income and poverty, housing, hunger, health, energy, military, education and labor. Researchers can also adjust for inflation, create graphs and save searches. Learn more: http://database.nationalpriorities.org . ACT NOW SUMMER INSTITUTES: Are you a new foundation trustee or grantmaker, or someone who’s interested in establishing a new foundation? Come to the 2005 Summer Institutes, July 10–12, in Portland, Oregon. At the institutes, new foundation board and staff members can take workshops on philanthropy basics conducted by respected leaders in the field. The Institute for New Board Members will be held July 10. The Institute for New Grantmakers will be held July 11–12. A special seminar, Establishing a New Foundation, will be held July 11. Register or read more: http://int2.cof.org/conferences/INGSummer2005/index.htm . ON THE MOVE MARY SUE COLEMAN was elected to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s board of trustees. Read more: http://www.knightfdn.org/default.asp?story=news_at_knight/releases/2005/2005_03_03_coleman.html . BARBARA YONDORF joins Rose Community Foundation as senior program officer in health in early May 2005. Read more: http://www.rcfdenver.org/pr_yondorf_030905.htm . The Greater Cincinnati Foundation named MEGAN ELICKER giving strategies assistant, MARY LEROY private foundation program officer and JULIA MACE communications officer. ANUJA MENDIRATTA is now program officer for community development at the Marin Community Foundation. The Bush Foundation appointed JAN K. MALCOLM to its board of directors. 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