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Volume 6, Number 21 – June 10, 2005 IN THIS ISSUE NEWS COVERAGE: GuideStar expands database to include all tax-exempt groups; Women & Philanthropy receives nearly $1 million for effective funding initiative; Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation funds new social entrepreneurship program AT THE COUNCIL: Get updated status of charitable legislation; sign up for Breaking News JUST PUBLISHED: Minnesota study finds some improvement in grantmakers' inclusiveness; employment at Indiana nonprofits outpaces government and for-profit sectors; study says most Ohio foundations don't compensate trustees ACT NOW: Register for discussion on safeguarding charity in the war on terror AWARDS ROUNDUP: Ronald Grzywinski to receive 2005 Gardner award; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation presents international health award; The California Wellness Foundation names 2005 champions of diversity ON THE MOVE: June Noronha (Bush); Rebecca Fedewa and Yazeed Moore (Mott) NEWS COVERAGE GUIDESTAR EXPANDS: GuideStar expanded its database to include all tax-exempt organizations registered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Previously, GuideStar focused on those organizations which are eligible to accept tax-deductible contributions. The expanded database contains every exempt organization in the IRS Business Master File, more than 1.5 million nonprofits in all. Among the more than 340,000 nonprofits just added to GuideStar are membership organizations, political entities, non-exempt charitable trusts, civic leagues and fraternal associations. GuideStar President and CEO Robert G. Ottenhoff said, "Now we are making the entire nonprofit universe available to our users. We are proud to provide a platform where taxpayers can review the activities of exempt organizations and where the nonprofits can demonstrate their commitment to transparency by posting additional information." Find out more: http://www.guidestar.org/about/press/050609_newsite.jsp . NEW EFFORT: Women & Philanthropy received a three-year, $965,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for a new program to provide leadership, educational opportunities and new resources to increase effective funding by and for women, youth and communities of color. The effort will include new tools to educate and encourage philanthropy for women and girls; connect and cultivate the increasing numbers of women leaders in philanthropy; and launch communications to increase the visibility of diverse leaders and best practices and study findings that promote the vision of that leadership. Read more: http://www.womenphil.org/info-url_nocat3909/info-url_nocat_show.htm?doc_id=276717 . SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation gave New York University (NYU) $10 million to create a program in social entrepreneurship. Through competitive graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships—available to students at all of NYU's 14 schools—the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship is intended to encourage and train a new cadre of public service leaders. The program, to begin in fall 2006, will complement the university's existing social entrepreneurship effort, the Stewart Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship at the Stern School of Business. Read more: http://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/664 . AT THE COUNCIL BILL TRACKER: Want the latest information on the status of charitable legislation? Check out the COF Bill Tracker, which provides status and summary information on legislation introduced in the 109th Congress. Frequently updated, the information is courtesy of THOMAS, a legislation website maintained by the United States Library of Congress. Find out more: http://www.cof.org/Content/General/Display.cfm?contentID=2715 . 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 INCLUSIVENESS: In Working Towards Diversity III, the Minnesota Council on Foundations reports incremental improvements among Minnesota grantmakers in applying strategies for inclusiveness. The study, a third five-year benchmark report on diversity, found that 42 percent of responding grantmakers have formal diversity policies, up from approximately 20 percent in both 1995 and 2000. Sixty-five percent of responding grantmakers said that board members were central to making new policies, whereas in the 2000 study, staff was cited as the strongest policymaking force. Read more or download the report (PDF): http://www.mcf.org/MCF/resource/diversityreport3.htm . INDIANA EMPLOYMENT: Employment in Indiana's nonprofit sector outpaced that of the state's government and for-profit sectors between 2000 and 2003, according to a report from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Center on Philanthropy. Indiana Nonprofit Employment: 2005 Report found that nonprofit employment increased by more than 5 percent between 2000 and 2003, while for-profit employment decreased by nearly 6 percent and government employment increased by almost 3 percent. The study also found that the pay gap between nonprofit jobs and for-profit and government jobs narrowed. Total nonprofit payrolls increased 17 percent, while for-profit payrolls increased 1 percent and government payrolls increased 10 percent. Read more or download the report (PDF): http://www.indiana.edu/~nonprof/results/inemploy/innonprofitemploy05.htm . TRUSTEE COMPENSATION: An Ohio Grantmakers Forum study found that 87 percent of Ohio's private foundations awarding more than $25,000 in grants don't compensate their trustees. Private Trustees/Public Trust: Trustee Compensation in Ohio examined the most current 990-PFs available for 1,295 Ohio-based foundations, representing nearly half of the state's private foundations and 97 percent ($7.3 billion) of their charitable assets. According to the study, only 172 foundations pay their trustees for board service. Some foundations pay all trustees, while others pay only one or a few. Download the study (PDF): http://www.ohiograntmakers.org/images/TrusteeFINALWEB.pdf . ACT NOW SAFEGUARDING CHARITY: A discussion on the post-9/11 regulatory environment and its impact on foundations and nonprofits in the United States, "Safeguarding Charity in the War on Terror," will be held June 14, 2005, from 4 to 6 p.m., in Washington, DC. Experts will address challenges facing U.S. foundations and nonprofits as they navigate a changing landscape of anti-terrorist financing procedures and regulations. The discussion is hosted by the Georgetown Public Policy Institute's Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership (CPNL). Panelists include David Cole, professor of law, Georgetown University Law Center; Laila Al-Marayati, chairperson, KinderUSA; and Daniel Mitchell, McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy, Heritage Foundation. Teresa Odendahl, Waldemar A. Nielsen Chair in Philanthropy, CPNL, will moderate. Register for the event (free): http://cpnl.georgetown.edu/pages/spotlight_16.cfm . AWARDS ROUNDUP GARDNER AWARD: Independent Sector will present its 2005 John W. Gardner Leadership Award to Ronald Grzywinski, chairman and CEO of ShoreBank Corporation. Grzywinski is being honored for transforming underserved neighborhoods into vibrant communities and inspiring a worldwide community-development banking movement. The award will be presented at Independent Sector's 25th Anniversary Conference in Washington, D.C., October 23–25, 2005. The award—$10,000 and a replica of Frederick Hart's bust of John Gardner—is sponsored by The William Randolph Hearst Foundations. Read more: http://www.independentsector.org/media/20050607_gardner.html . GLOBAL HEALTH: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the 2005 Gates Award for Global Health to the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF). The $1 million award, which is the world's largest for international health, was given to AMREF in recognition of its nearly 50 years of efforts to improve health in Africa's poorest communities, build local health infrastructure and document their success to guide others. The award, which is administered by the Global Health Council (GHC), recognizes extraordinary achievement in improving health in the developing world. It was presented to Dr. Miriam Were, AMREF board chair, June 2 at GHC's 32nd Annual International Conference in Washington, DC. "Health is the beacon that will lead Africa out of poverty," said Dr. Were. Read more: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/Announcements/Announce-050602.htm . HEALTH DIVERSITY: The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF) named three recipients of the 2005 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award: Elia V. Gallardo, director of government affairs, California Primary Care Association, Sacramento; Sherry M. Hirota, CEO, Asian Health Services, Oakland; and Martin Waukazoo, CEO, Native American Health Center, Oakland. Each winner received $25,000 acknowledging his or her commitment to increasing diversity in the health professions. TCWF President and CEO Gary L. Yates said the "champions have developed innovative programs to not only diversify the health workforce but to create new models of healthcare delivery that are responsive to the needs of the community." Read more: http://www.tcwf.org/leadership_awards/champions_award/2005/news_release.htm . ON THE MOVE JUNE NORONHA is now strategic planning officer for the Bush Foundation. Read more: http://www.bushfoundation.org/News/06012005.htm . The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation promoted Program Assistant REBECCA FEDEWA to associate program officer, Environment program. YAZEED MOORE was promoted to associate program officer in the Improving Community Education program. Read more: http://www.mott.org/news/pr-detail.asp?newsid=37 . 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 . 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