Val Porter Appointed Director of the
Foundation Center-Atlanta
6/3/10 
Ms. Porter will oversee the Foundation Center's activities in the entire Southeast, continuing a 15-year history of service to the region. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Porter headed a strategy and branding firm, Cultural Capital, dedicated to the sustainability and growth of public and private ventures.
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Race to the Top: What Grantmakers Can Learn from the First Round
6/2/10 
This issue brief documents the experiences of grantmakers, government leaders, and education consultants in states that applied for the U.S. Department of Education's 2010 "Race to the Top" competition. It offers critical lessons on grantmaker and government collaborations for education reform and beyond.
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- Download the report Free
The Foundation Center Elects Two New Board Members:
Marcia Smith and Valdemar de Oliveira Neto
5/19/10  
Marcia A. Smith is senior vice president at The Atlantic Philanthropies, a global foundation that makes large investments toward addressing the root causes of social injustice. Valdemar Neto (known as "Maneto") is policy director of AVINA, a Latin American foundation.
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- View the Foundation Center's Board of Trustees
Foundation Center's Philanthropy Annual: 2009 Review
Highlights of News and Issues that Shaped the Year
5/17/10 
The Foundation Center has just released Philanthropy Annual: 2009 Review, the third edition of its yearly compendium highlighting the news, issues, people, organizations, and giving trends shaping the field of philanthropy.
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- Learn more
Foundation Center Is Research Partner for
Global Philanthropy Forum, April 19-21
4/19/10 
Visit our Global Philanthropy web portal to learn about the work foundations are doing to mitigate the effects of climate change and to ensure access to water, food, and health care in developing countries.
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- Visit the web portal
The Foundation Center Releases Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates, Current Outlook (2010 Edition)
4/16/10 
The recent economic crisis caused the nation's more than 75,000 grantmaking foundations to cut their 2009 giving by an estimated 8.4 percent-by far the largest decline ever tracked by the Foundation Center. Grant dollars fell from $46.8 billion to $42.9 billion. Yet according to Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates (2010 Edition), released today by the Foundation Center, this cutback totaled less than half the 17 percent loss in foundation assets recorded in the prior year.
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Grantsfire to Join the Foundation Center
4/13/10 
The Foundation Center and Grantsfire have announced a joint effort to ensure that all those who care about philanthropy's contribution to the public good will have access to the most up-do-date information possible. Under the agreement, Grantsfire, a web-based system to capture and publish grants information using Web 2.0 tools and technology, will become a project of the Foundation Center.
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The Foundation Center Releases After the Grant:
The Nonprofit's Guide to Good Stewardship
3/25/10 
After the Grant is the only book of its kind written on the topic of what should happen after a grant is awarded. It addresses each step in the grant cycle, from the award letter to meetings with funders to securing the renewal. In it, veteran fundraisers and foundation executives offer critical insights from both sides of the grantor-grantee equation on how grant recipients can best manage, communicate, and report on funded programs, cementing their relationship with funders.
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- Order the book
Glasspockets.org Encourages
Foundation Transparency
2/1/10 
A new web portal from the Foundation Center puts the spotlight on foundation transparency, identifying first-rate examples of organizations that communicate openly about their work. Glasspockets.org illuminates successes, failures, and ongoing experimentation so foundations can build on each other's ideas to increase impact.
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- Visit www.glasspockets.org
Over 40% of Surveyed Funders Are Planning a
Direct Response to Crisis in Haiti
1/22/10 
A survey of the Foundation Center's Grantmaker Leadership Panel indicates that a significant number of leading funders are considering a direct response to the crisis in Haiti, with a primary focus on providing emergency assistance. Read the three-page report, Earthquake in Haiti: Leading U.S. Foundations Respond
to the Crisis, for more about the survey's findings.
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- Visit Focus on Haiti: Earthquake Relief and Recovery
Foundation Funding for Climate Change Reached Nearly $900 Million in 2008, Foundation Center Research Shows
12/3/09 
As the 2009 Climate Conference in Copenhagen opens, the Foundation Center has prepared a new research advisory that examines foundation support for climate change. Climate Change: The U.S. Foundation Response finds that foundation funding to address issues related to global warming has grown rapidly, climbing from less than $100 million in 2000 to nearly $900 million in 2008.
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Celebrity Giving Spotlighted in New Directory
11/9/09 
The Foundation Center's new Celebrity Foundation Directory features profiles of more than 1,600 charitable foundations that have been established by well-known figures in business, sports, entertainment, politics, and other areas. It details the charitable giving interests of the rich and famous in a downloadable, searchable PDF format.
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- Purchase the directory
Decline in 2009 Foundation Giving Steeper Than Anticipated, Survey Finds
11/4/09 
Foundation giving will likely decline by more than 10 percent in 2009 according to survey findings released by the Foundation Center. Based on responses of close to 600 foundations, Foundations' Year-end Outlook for Giving and the Sector also finds that continued reductions are expected in 2010.
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- Download the advisory Free
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