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Volume 6, Number 31 – September 8, 2005 IN THIS ISSUE AT THE COUNCIL: Resources for responding to hurricane Katrina; sign up for Breaking News NEWS COVERAGE: Kresge Foundation gives $5 million to bolster YMCAs and philanthropy in Mexico; Anna Faith Jones and Claire L. Gaudiani receive lifetime achievement medals NOW ONLINE: Webcast helps dispel myths for community foundations JUST PUBLISHED: Report says public hospitals are providing less care, disappearing ACT NOW: Sign up for teleconference on choosing a philanthropic agenda; register for conference on education ON THE MOVE: Jukka Valkonen (California HealthCare); Susan Baker and Tim Hanrahan (McKnight) AT THE COUNCIL HURRICANE RESPONSE: As foundations and corporate giving programs across the United States respond to the crisis that continues to unfold in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, our thoughts are with the millions devastated in the region. In line with our effort following the tsunami relief in 2004 and 2005, the Council on Foundations has created resources to assist those interested in donating or in tracking the philanthropic response to the disaster. These include links to charities and community foundations nationwide accepting donations and lists of known foundation and corporate donors, the amount of their contributions or pledges, and the recipient of each grant. While many donations will help meet the immediate needs of these communities (water, food and shelter), a number of the funds also are being established to meet the long-term needs of the affected area. The Council has several resources on providing disaster relief, including Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporations. For a list of all resources, including Council members who are providing relief to victims, visit http://www.cof.org/Content/General/Display.cfm?contentID=2918&orglink=76 . The Southeastern Council of Foundations, one of the Council's regional associations, provided a report from the field that details some of the local relief efforts under way, as well as firsthand accounts from people on the ground. Read more: http://www.cof.org/Content/General/Display.cfm?contentID=2943 . 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 MEXICO PHILANTHROPY: The Kresge Foundation gave a five-year, $5 million grant to the YMCA of the USA to advance the culture of philanthropy in Mexico by partnering with Mexican YMCAs. The goal of the Kresge Mexico Philanthropy Development Initiative is to increase the capacity of YMCAs in Mexico to raise private funds, and expand and sustain youth, family and community development services. The foundation is providing approximately $2 million initially to strengthen the capital and annual campaigns of the YMCA of Mexico City, the YMCA Leon and the Mexican Federation of YMCAs' Border Initiative. Kresge's initiative will also include sharing YMCA best practices in fundraising, staff and volunteer development; creating philanthropic strategic alliances; introducing new fundraising technology; and strengthening partnerships with YMCAs in the United States. The initiative is part of Kresge's longstanding goal of building philanthropic capacity to help organizations broaden and deepen their base of support from private contributions, volunteer involvement and fundraising efforts. The YMCA of the USA and the Mexican Federation of YMCAs will co-manage the grant and make their own financial and technical contributions valued at more than $1 million. Read more: http://press.arrivenet.com/pol/article.php/685145.html . LIFETIME AWARDS: Anna Faith Jones and Claire L. Gaudiani are the 2005 recipients of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University's Henry A. Rosso Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Ethical Fundraising. The medal recognizes lifelong dedication to emphasizing philanthropy's ethics and values, acting as a mentor to perpetuate and invigorate philanthropic traditions, and showing noted leadership in a long, productive career of distinction. Before becoming a professor at the George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Gaudiani served for 13 years as president of Connecticut College, which quintupled its endowment under her leadership. She is also author of The Greater Good: How Philanthropy Drives the American Economy and Can Save Capitalism. Jones is the former head of the Boston Foundation, where she developed innovative programs in Boston to fight poverty and support the arts. She is also former chair of the Council on Foundations, an Association of Black Foundation Executives' honoree, and recipient of the Council on Foundations' Distinguished Grantmaker Award. Jones currently serves as a director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Civic League and Public Radio International. The medal presentation ceremony was held in conjunction with the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University's 18th annual symposium, Women and Philanthropy: Gaining Momentum, August 25–26, 2005. Read more: http://www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/nr-RossoAward2005.html . JUST PUBLISHED PUBLIC HOSPITALS: A new study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that urban public hospitals provided less in-patient and emergency care in 2002 than in 1996, and that more public hospitals closed during that time period than did for-profit and nonprofit hospitals. The study, Hospital Care in the 100 Largest Cities and Their Suburbs, 1996-2002: Implications for the Future of the Hospital Safety Net in Metropolitan America, was conducted by the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. It also found that high-poverty suburbs, particularly in the South, appear to be relatively underserved by hospitals, compared to low-poverty suburbs, which appear to have an abundance of hospital resources. "Public hospitals may become an endangered species," says the study's lead author, Dennis Andrulis. "Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they are disappearing from the suburbs, as well." Download the report (PDF): http://www.downstate.edu/urbansoc_healthdata/report_new.pdf . NOW ONLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS: A webcast on The Future of Community Foundations: The Next Decade is now available at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's website. The 90-minute webcast is of Mark R Kramer's presentation at the foundation in July. Kramer, managing director of Foundation Strategy Group, discusses research that dispels six prevailing myths under which many community foundations operate. The webcast is available online until September 30, 2005. View the webcast (flash): http://www.fc-tv.com/clients/knight . A report from the presentation (PDF) is also available at: http://www.knightfdn.org/donorfunds/files/FSG_future_of_community_foundations.pdf . ACT NOW PHILANTHROPIC AGENDAS: Stanford Social Innovation Review and the National Center for Family Philanthropy will hold the teleconference Choosing a Philanthropic Agenda: Five Factors to Consider, on September 15, 2005, noon to 1:30 p.m., Eastern Time. The teleconference will feature Bruce Sievers, adjunct professor at Stanford University, former executive director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund and senior fellow at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. The teleconference will help participants develop a framework for fundamental philanthropic priorities, consider the best match between social need and application of their resources and examine whether succeeding generations should have much latitude to interpret or change the focus of a foundation. Registration is $40. Register or learn more: http://www.ncfp.org/program-teleconferences.htm . EDUCATION GATHERING: Grantmakers for Education holds its 9th annual conference, Educating a New America: Changing Populations, Changing Demands, Changing World, October 10&150;12, 2005, in New York City. Attendees will learn how they can help schools prepare all children-including new immigrants and those who have never been well-served by the U.S. education system-to thrive in the 21st century. Speakers include Joel Klein, chancellor, New York City Department of Education; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School Professor and author of Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow; and Wendy Kopp, president and founder of Teach for America. Foundation trustees, CEOs and executive team members can also enroll in a one-day concurrent Foundation Leaders Institute, which will tackle the intersection of education results and foundation effectiveness. Register or find out more: http://www.edfunders.org/programs/conference/registration.asp . ON THE MOVE JUKKA VALKONEN was hired as director of health information technology at the California HealthCare Foundation. The McKnight Foundation hired SUSAN BAKER as accounting assistant and named Communications Production Manager TIM HANRAHAN as communications director. 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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