Dominick Impemba Elected to Foundation Center Board
5/9/13
Dominick Impemba, controller at the Rockefeller Foundation, was elected to the Foundation Center's board of trustees on April 19. Mr. Impemba is a CPA with nearly 17 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations. His service begins in July.
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Susan Kish Elected to Foundation Center Board
4/25/13
Susan Kish, head of cross-company initiatives at Bloomberg L.P., was elected to the Foundation Center's board on April 19, effective immediately. At Bloomberg Ms. Kish oversees the collaboration and integration of the company's global businesses.
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Robert Yaeger Has Been Named Vice President for Finance and Administration at the Foundation Center
4/11/13
Robert Yaeger has been appointed vice president for finance and administration at the Foundation Center, effective April 15. Mr. Yaeger, who was recently vice president of finance and business intelligence at Voltari Media, will assume primary responsibility for maintaining the Center's financial health and charting its future financial strategy.
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Laura Callanan Joins the Foundation Center as Visiting Fellow
4/9/13
Laura Callanan, an expert in the field of social innovation, has joined the Foundation Center in the role of senior fellow. During this one-year fellowship, Ms. Callanan will undertake a variety of activities to elevate work within the philanthropic sector related to leadership development and social impact, as well as help build the Foundation Center's own capacity for social innovation.
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The Foundation Center Appoints Viviana Bianchi and Jen Bokoff to New Director Positions
4/4/13
The Foundation Center has announced the appointment of Viviana Bianchi as director of partnerships and Jen Bokoff as director of GrantCraft. Effective May 6, 2013, both positions are part of an expansion of the Center's Strategic Philanthropy division headed by Lisa Philp.
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BMAfunders.org Strengthens Black Male Achievement Field
3/28/13
The Foundation Center and the Open Society Foundations have launched the web portal BMAfunders.org to facilitate engagement, collaboration, and strategic decision making among funders, nonprofits, and policymakers working to promote positive outcomes for black men and boys in America. The site includes a mapping tool, timeline of milestones, and a collection of research reports.
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Georgia Foundation Giving Declines, Grantmakers and Charities Agree on Future Needs
2/21/13
Georgia saw a decline in the number of its grantmaking foundations and their giving in 2010, according to Key Facts on Georgia Foundations. The dollar value of grants awarded by the state's foundations fell to $778 million, and the number of active foundations also shrank for the second straight year. Assets, however, rose 8.1 percent between 2009 and 2010 to $11.8 billion, suggesting that foundation giving may have begun to recover in 2011.
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Online Resource of Mexican Philanthropy Launched
1/30/13
Fondos a la Vista is a new searchable database of more than 22,000 Mexican philanthropies launched in partnership with the Mexico-based Alternativas y Capacidades and the Philanthropy and Civil Society Project at ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México). The online resource provides the Mexican public with reliable, comprehensive information about domestic donors and their philanthropic activity, including the organizations they support.
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Chinese-language Resources for Funders Now Available
1/16/13
Thirty-one guides widely used by grantmakers in the U.S. have been translated into Chinese for free distribution. The titles are part of GrantCraft, which taps the collective knowledge of funders to share insights to help them hone their craft.
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Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013
1/7/13
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013, written by leading philanthropy scholar Lucy Bernholz, predicts big data-related shifts this year for donors and "doers." The Blueprint — a GrantCraft publication — provides more than a dozen examples of foundations embracing data and predicts data will be transformative for philanthropy in the future, in terms of both practice and policy.
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Blueprint 2013 Free
Foundation Center Aligns With World Bank Institute, Endorses Open Aid Partnership
11/14/12
The Foundation Center has endorsed the World Bank Institute's Open Aid Partnership and its efforts to improve the openness and effectiveness of development assistance worldwide. The Center will contribute data and analysis on global philanthropy in this effort to produce a collaborative map to help improve coordination, efficiency, transparency, and accountability of development assistance.
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IssueLab Knowledge Sharing Platform Now Contains 11,000 Resources
11/8/12
IssueLab provides free access to resources that analyze the world's most pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges and their potential solutions. Its 11,000 documents represents one of the largest collections of social sector knowledge. Search and browse the database by social issue area, author, publishing organization, or geography.
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New Reports Shed Light on Payout Practices and Expense Patterns of U.S. Foundations
10/23/12
Two new reports provide an authoritative, unbiased source of knowledge to help the public, policymakers, and foundations better understand payout practices and spending patterns of more than 1,000 larger U.S. independent foundations. Understanding and Benchmarking Foundation Payout finds that 46 percent of endowed foundations reported payout rates in the range of 5 to 5.9 percent, on average. Benchmarking Foundation Administrative Expenses finds that whether a foundation employs paid staff is the single most important factor affecting its expense levels.
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Foundation Center and TechSoup Global Form Strategic Alliance
10/18/12
The Foundation Center and TechSoup Global — an organization that connects nonprofits around the world with donated technology products and educational resources — have announced a strategic alliance that will leverage their expertise in data management, analysis, and visualization to unlock the power of information for the social sector worldwide.
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GuideStar and Foundation Center Offer New Benefits to Charitable Organizations
10/16/12
In a new partnership that promotes knowledge sharing and strengthens the nonprofit and grantmaking sectors, GuideStar and the Foundation Center will support each other's activities and share information to enhance effectiveness and efficiency across the sector. The partnership kicks off with offers of discounts on specific products to supporters, members, and stakeholders.
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"Reporting Commitment" Opens Up Grants Data
10/9/12
A group of the largest U.S. foundations have formally committed to release their grant information in a consistent, open, and frequent manner, in an effort to more effectively address the issues facing our communities and our world. To date, 15 foundations have partnered with the Foundation Center and agreed to open up their grantmaking data in this initiative known as the "Reporting Commitment."
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New Research on Philanthropy Directed to Black Males in U.S. Reveals Important Trends
10/1/12
Where Do We Go From Here? Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys is the first report of its kind to document philanthropic activity for black males. The research reveals that annual funding designated for black men and boys has been rising steadily, from $10 million in 2003 to $29 million in 2010. Education is a top funding priority for this group: between 2008 and 2010, education garnered 40 percent of these grant dollars.
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Foundation Center Launches "Eye on the Giving Pledge"
8/1/12
The Giving Pledge is an effort that encourages wealthy Americans to commit the majority of their assets to philanthropic causes. "Eye on the Giving Pledge," a new feature at Glasspockets, offers an in-depth picture of Giving Pledge participants, their charitable activities, and the potential impact of the Giving Pledge. With a combined net worth of roughly $400 billion, the commitments made by the current 81 Giving Pledge participants could bring an estimated $200 billion or more to charity over time, representing a dramatic increase in philanthropic giving.
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Foundation Center Acquires IssueLab
6/11/12
In the coming months, the Foundation Center's PubHub and IssueLab will be combined to provide open access to 12,000+ documents. It will be one of the largest collections of social sector research for nonprofit practitioners, grantmakers, policymakers, and researchers.
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Foundation Giving Lost Ground to Inflation in 2011
6/7/12
Giving by U.S. foundations totaled an estimated $46.9 billion in 2011, surpassing the $46.8 billion pre-recession peak recorded in 2008. Yet, after accounting for inflation, contributions by the nation's more than 76,600 foundations were down slightly from 2010. According to Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates (2012 Edition), if the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were excluded from the totals, 2011 giving would actually have gone down by roughly 3 percent after inflation.
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Giving in Illinois
6/1/12
Illinois is home to more than 4,000 grantmaking foundations and their giving totaled a record $2.4 billion in 2010 according to Giving in Illinois. The report examines the Illinois foundation community and giving priorities all foundations giving in the state; it was produced in cooperation with Chicago's Donors Forum.
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