NCG Effectiveness &
Accountability Program presents
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a program for funders |
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June 26, 2007
9:30am to Noon
Shinnyo-en Foundation
201 Mission Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco
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program includes continental breakfast
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Story Number One: Authenticity
How Two Local Funders Build Transparent & Respectful Relationships with Nonprofits
 Through the Change Agent Project, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has identified open, honest grantmaker-grantee relationships as a key to ensuring appropriate funding and nonprofit success. The Whitman Institute and the Agape Foundation are two different types of grantmaking entities that share the same essential goal: building open, honest and respectful relationships with grantees for the long haul.
This NCG Effectiveness & Accountability program is designed to highlight two of the NCG Principles: Transparency and Respect. We hope that the stories shared by your peers about creative ways that they strive toward creating authentic relations might be instructive to you and your foundation. Whether you use a primarily proactive or a more response approach to your grantmaking (or a combination of the two), there are a myriad of ways to structure the application process and ongoing monitoring so that it builds the kind of relationships that contribute to greater nonprofit success-as well as greater foundation effectiveness.
Please join us in a moderated discussion with storytellers John Esterle, Executive Director of The Whitman Institute and Karen Topakian, Executive director of the Agape Foundation. Fatima Angeles, Director of Evaluation & Organizational Learning at The California Wellness Foundation will serve as moderator.
Come join us to:
- Increase knowledge of NCG Principles of Transparency and Respect.
- Identify creative approaches to building strong, healthy grantor-grantee relationships.
- Offer a new framework and insights to help foundation assess their own approaches to Transparency and Respect.
- Leave inspired and engaged in your philanthropic practice.
Speakers
John Esterle
Executive Director, The Whitman Institute
John is the executive director and a trustee of The Whitman Institute, an independent foundation whose mission is to promote open-mindedness, cross-perspective dialogue, and engaged communication in order to improve the process and quality of public and private decision-making. TWI primarily funds in the areas of education, leadership development, and civic engagement. John has been with TWI for 19 years and three years ago led its transition from an operating to a grantmaking foundation.
Prior to joining TWI, John directed Crime and the News Media, a pilot educational project that featured a series of dialogues between journalists and proponents of alternatives to incarceration. He received his B.A. in Liberal Arts from the Hutchins School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Sonoma State University and his M.A. in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State University.
He currently serves on the board of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE).
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Karen Topakian
Executive Director, The Agape Foundation
Karen Topakian has been the executive director of the Agape Foundation - Fund for Nonviolent Social Change since 1993. Karen has worked in the activist and advocacy wing of the non-profit sector for more than 30 years. She has served on the Greenpeace Fund board since 1994, for 10 years on the board of the Western States Legal Foundation and for four years on the board of the Women's AIDS Network.
Karen co-chaired San Francisco's Fundraising Day in 2003 and served on the event committee for National Philanthropy Day in San Francisco from 2002 to 2004. In 2006, she served on the Fundraising Committee and Organizing Committee for Raising Change, A Social Justice Fundraising Conference sponsored by the Grassroots Fundraising Journal. She frequently serves on panels of social justice grantmakers, nonprofit executive directors, and board members.
She has a Masters in Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in filmmaking. In her spare time, she writes for the Noe Valley Voice.
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Fatima L. Angeles
Director of Evaluation and Organizational Learning, The California Wellness Foundation
Fatima Angeles joined the Foundation in February 1998 as a program director, where she managed the Foundation's Children and Youth Community Health Initiative and oversaw grantmaking in two issues: environmental health and work and health. Before joining TCWF, she was a program associate at The Hasbro Children's Foundation in New York City and an advisory committee member for The California Wellness Foundation's children and youth community health initiative. Angeles' other philanthropic experience includes work with The Commonwealth Fund and the corporate philanthropy program of Pfizer Inc. She also served as a senior research assistant for a one-year evaluation of the National/Regional Minority Organization initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Angeles has experience working with adolescents in San Francisco, serving as director of the South of Market Teen Center and project coordinator for Asian American Communities Against AIDS. She is a 1992 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and received her master of public health degree from Columbia University in 1997. Angeles is a board member of the Asian and Pacific Islander Health Forum, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She has also served as a board member of the Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center and Funders Concerned About AIDS.
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Who Can Attend
This event is for funders only. Please contact Member Services at (415) 777-4111 x28 for further information.
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Register Now - Space is Limited!
This program is free of charge for NCG members. Advance reservation is required.
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Out of consideration for staff planning and anyone who
might be on a program waiting list, we ask that registrants notify NCG
staff at least 3 business days prior to an event should they need to
cancel their participation.
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