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Recent Reports
Proceedings From the First Annual Researcher/Practitioner Forum: The State of Research on Diversity in Philanthropy
May 2008
This report summarizes the discussions that took place at the first annual Researcher/Practitioner Forum which was held on September 27 and 28, 2007 at El Pomar Foundation’s Penrose House conference facilities in Colorado Springs, CO. The Forum was co-sponsored by the Council on Foundations, ARNOVA and the Foundation Center and was made possible by a grant from the Lumina Foundation. The first annual Researcher/Practitioner Forum brought together 25 researchers and foundation representatives to discuss the state of research on diversity in philanthropy.
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More Than Grantmaking: A First Look at Foundations' Direct Charitable Activities
November 2007
The Foundation Center's new report, More Than Grantmaking: A First Look at Foundations' Direct Charitable Activities, tracks the growing role of operating programs — known as direct charitable activities — as a part of the work of U.S. foundations. The first of its kind, this free report sheds light on the often overlooked non-grantmaking programs of foundations. Examples of direct charitable activities of several foundations are included.
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Spotlight on Arts Grantmaking in the San Francisco Bay Area
October 2007
In 2005, the San Francisco Bay Area benefited from 1,498 arts and culture grants totaling $145 million, according to Spotlight on Arts Grantmaking in the San Francisco Bay Area. The report provides a mini-directory of selected Bay Area funders with a focus on the arts, and is supplemented by a listing of the top non-Bay Area foundations that provide significant arts funding in the region.
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Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes
August 2007
U.S. foundations and corporations have committed more than $1 billion in cash and in-kind giving for relief, recovery, and rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to the Foundation Center's new report, Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes. The report provides the most comprehensive record available of the resources that institutional donors provided in response to the Gulf Coast hurricanes. It also includes an analysis of interviews with 10 of the top 25 independent foundations that responded to the disaster.
Key findings include:
- Corporate giving accounted for the majority of cash giving by institutional donors — $519 million, or 57 percent.
- Corporate giving focused more on immediate relief, while foundations focused more on recovery and rebuilding.
- The South rallied to take care of its own: grantmakers in just five Southern states — Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, Virginia, and Louisiana — collectively accounted for over one-fifth or 21.6 percent of the institutional response to the disaster.
- Most giving (83 percent) went to intermediary organizations outside of Louisiana and Mississippi.
- Religiously affiliated organizations received over one-fifth of total disaster response contributions from institutional donors whose giving was tracked in this study.
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Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Report on the Foundation and Corporate Response
August 2006
In response to last summer's Gulf Coast hurricanes, U.S. foundations and corporations have committed more than $577 million for relief, recovery, and rebuilding. This report documents actual commitments announced by the nation's corporations and foundations and results from a survey of the nation's largest independent, corporate, and community foundations.
Overview
Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Report on the Foundation and Corporate Response provides an overview of foundation and corporate activities in response to the Gulf Coast hurricanes, drawn from data compiled by the Foundation Center up to June 2006. Reflecting differences in sources of information, the report offers two distinct and complementary views of giving. The first part of the report, which is based on a 2006 survey of larger private and community foundations, focuses on grantmaker practices, such as how funders paid for hurricane response funding, what impact it has had on their other programs, and how likely they are to fund other disasters. The second part, which is based on actual grant commitments tracked by the Foundation Center in our Gulf Coast response database, examines the scope, purposes, and recipients of hurricane response giving by foundations and corporations. Together these analyses provide the most comprehensive portrait available of institutional support for Gulf Coast relief, recovery, and rebuilding.
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Foundation Funding for Arts Education
October 2005
This report was produced in collaboration with Grantmakers in the Arts, and provides an overview of private and community foundation support for arts education.
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Also see:
Spotlight on Arts Education Grantmaking in Ohio
Spotlight on Arts Education Grantmaking in the San Francisco Bay Area
Spotlight on Arts Funding in Metropolitan Atlanta
Social Justice Grantmaking
September 2005
This report issued by INDEPENDENT SECTOR and the Foundation Center, examines changes in social justice-related giving by U.S. foundations.
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