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NCG Event Archive: 2001Association of Small Foundations and NCG The Association of Small Foundations and Northern California Grantmakers are co-presenting this informal program developed for staff and board members, both new and experienced, of foundations with few or no staff. The presentations and workshops are designed to further grantmaking skills and make it easier to administer the small foundation, as well as to bring clarity to challenges and present new ways of looking at old problems. Participants will have access to a network of peers as well as leaders in the field. Session topics include: Best Practices for Small Foundation Trustees; Leveraging Your Resources; Tax & Legal Basics for Foundations; Grantmaking Basics; Nonprofits: Partners or Petitioners; Managing Fiduciary Responsibility; Socially Responsible Portfolios; Proposal Review Workshop; and Foundation Self Assessment. A reception will follow, from 5:15 to 6:15 pm. The registration fee schedule is as follows: for ASF & NCG members: $100 before October 29 and $115 thereafter; for non-members: $125 before October 29 and $140 thereafter. The conference is sponsored by Salomon Smith Barney Consulting Group. For more information, contact Lisa Cooke at 888-212-9922 or lisa@smallfoundations.org. 2001 National Philanthropy Day Awards Luncheon Each year, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) marks one day in November to celebrate the spirit of giving. This year, Northern California Grantmakers joins the Golden Gate Chapter of AFP to present six awards to individuals and institutions whose giving to the community inspires all of us. An awards panel of community members evaluated all nominations submitted. Awards will be presented at a gala luncheon on November 15, 2001 in the Grand Ballroom of the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Awardees will also be profiled and honored in a special section of the San Francisco Business Times. This year's National Philanthropy Day Luncheon Awardees are: Lifetime Achievement Award - Mimi and Peter Haas For more information about 2001 National Philanthropy Day, visit www.npdgg.org. California Association of Nonprofits The Annual California Association of Nonprofits Conference is the only statewide conference designed to bring together all sub-sectors of the California nonprofit community to learn new ideas and explore creative strategies. Executive directors and other professional staff, board members, grantmakers, fundraisers, program officers, consultants, and students will profit from attending the conference. Keynote speakers include Dr. Manuel Pastor, professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at Merrill College, UC Santa Cruz; Dr. Audrey R. Alvarado, executive director of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations; and Dr. Paul C. Light, founding director of The Brookings Institution's Center for Public Service and currently the institution's vice president and director of governmental studies. Conference co-sponsors include Northern California Grantmakers, East Bay Community Foundation, Peninsula Community Foundation, and Shasta Regional Community Foundation, among others. For more information or to register, visit www.canonprofits.org. NCG Special Briefing As the Congress moves towards opening the debate in 2002 on reauthorization of welfare legislation, it is important to look at the outcomes of the 1996 welfare reform legislation, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), to determine its results. Has poverty been reduced? What lessons have been learned in California that can contribute to the national reauthorization debate? How are children in these families faring? What do we know about the families still on welfare? As TANF has been implemented, there has been an increased blurring of the distinctions between welfare recipients and other low-income families. What are the implications for us? This briefing will 1) lay out the national landscape for the reauthorization debate; 2) discuss what we've learned in California about moving people off welfare, poverty reduction, employment in jobs with family-supporting wages, and barriers to employment; and 3) provide the opportunity to develop possible responses to these issues. Mark Greenberg, Senior Staff Attorney for The Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C. will speak about the current national landscape and how California compares with other states in activities and outcomes. Since joining CLASP in 1998, Mr. Greenberg has focused on issues relating to federal and state welfare reform efforts and workforce issues affecting low-income families, with particular attention to employment, education and training, child care and early education policy, and other supports for low-income families. He has written or coauthored articles about reauthorization of the 1996 welfare law for the American Prospect Magazine and the Brookings Review and for a forthcoming issue of the Packard Foundation's Future of Children Journal. A panel of California-based experts, including Jean Ross, Executive Director of the California Budget Project, will speak about issues of concern to California: TANF outcomes; access to affordable, quality child care; access to higher education and its impact on earnings; immigration issues; and reaching those with multiple barriers to self-sufficiency. RSVP to NCG by Friday, November 2 if you plan to attend. For more information, call Inger Brinck at The Women's Foundation at 415-837-1113, Ext. 322. Sponsors for this briefing are The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Rosenberg Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation, and The Women's Foundation. Fourth Annual Retreat: Earned or Inherited Wealth New Realities 3-Nonprofit Public Policy Conference The San Francisco Human Services Network, The Management Center, and Northern California Grantmakers will hold the third annual nonprofit public policy conference this fall. New Realities 3 will focus on building a healthy human service partnership between nonprofit community-based organizations, government agencies, and the philanthropic sector. The day will feature a town hall forum with key community leaders discussing how we can work together to improve the delivery of efficient and effective services to San Franciscans. Register by September 18 to take advantage of the early registration fee of $35. Visit www.tmcenter.org/programs/nr3.html for more information or to register online. The Management Center Hot Topics, Cool Solutions: An Open Space Meeting for Nonprofit Executive Directors, this year's executive director retreat, is supported by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation. Retreat participants will enter a peer-learning environment and take part in spirited conversations with other nonprofit executive directors who have many experiences and insights to share. The ED Retreat will be conducted using Open Space Technology (OST). Recognized internationally as an innovative approach to inspiring the best in human performance, this is a powerful and proven method for enabling group members to raise issues, resolve problems, and quickly create solutions. OST allows each member to fully contribute her wisdom and skills to the group in a flexible, organized way. Rae Levine, who specializes in collaborative organizational change, will be the retreat facilitator. Only executive directors are eligible to participate. Applications must be received no later than Friday, September 7, 2001. Space is limited to 40 individuals. Visit the website www.tmcenter.org for more information and to register. e-Philanthropy 2001 Conference leaders from myriad segments within 3-Philanthropy will engage in dialogue aimed at the strategic use of the Internet to increase giving, volunteering and civic engagement. The sessions are designed to allow participants maximum dialogue around promising practices and pressing challenges. Tlhe conference is sponsored by AOL Time Warner Foundation, Verizon Foundation, Blackbaud, CVent, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, INDEPENDENT Sector, Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers, National Endowment for the Humanities, and United Way of America. An invitation and program with confirmed speakers is available at www.cvent.com/I.asp?code=zpqleriidbvidydlbceitnziipblir2264. The Hilton's discounted conference rate is only available until August 31. National Conference Existing National and International Laws, Regulations, and Accords: What Works and What Doesn't; Current Controversies; Lessons from the Environmental, Human Rights and Other Movements, and Strategies for Action. Beyond Cloning: Protecting Humanity From Species-Altering Procedures will address the need for policies to prevent the alteration of the human species through genetic engineering and will discuss where lines should be drawn, lessons learned from existing policies and procedures, new national and international approaches and mechanisms for proscribing species-altering procedures, and more. This conference will be of interest to scientists, physicians, policymakers, legislators, public health professionals, environmentalists, reproductive health specialists, health and human rights advocates, philosophers, bioethicists, journalists, funders, and concerned citizens. It is sponsored by Boston University School of Public Health, Health Law Department. Co-sponsors are Exploratory Initiative on the New Human Genetic Technologies, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Global Lawyers and Physicians. Early registration fee is $140; student fee is $45. For further information on the program, registration, and lodging, go to www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/website/index.htm. Peninsula Silicon Valley Funders Fair Co-hosted by the Peninsula Community Foundation and CompassPoint, this year's Funders Fair features sessions exploring new trends in giving such as donor-advised funds, venture philanthropy, and capacity building; issue panels on topics such as youth, community development, and the environment; and skills-building workshops on major donors, capital campaigns, fundraising strategy, and tips for the accidental fundraiser. The conference has expanded to include nearly 100 funders on fifteen panels addressing the evolving face of fundraising. The keynote presentation by Alexa Cortes Culwell, executive director of the Schwab Family Foundation, will focus on how family foundations are revolutionizing individual giving. Underwriters include Oracle Corporation, Atkinson Foundation, Sand Hill Foundation, Applied Materials Inc., and Lockheed Martin. Visit www.compasspoint.org for more information or to register. Women & Philanthropy At the Southern California regional meeting of Women & Philanthropy, keynote speaker Kathryn McMahon will discuss the meaning of gender lens and why this analytical technique is critical to ensuring effective grantmaking. Ms. McMahon is the assistant professor of women studies and international studies at California State University, Long Beach; the director of research and training at Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST); and research scholar for the Center for the Study of Women at University of California, Los Angeles. A panel discussion among funders who are successfully tackling the issues of economic development and health using the gender lens will include: Debra F. Ching, president, Los Angeles Women's Foundation; Torie Osborn, executive director, Liberty Hill Foundation; and Luz Vega-Marquis, executive director, Community Technology Foundation of California. RSVP by calling 202-887-9660 by Wednesday, September 12, 2001. Fee (includes lunch) is $15 for Women & Philanthropy members and $30 for nonmembers. Foundation for Deep Ecology "Farming with the Wild: Pollinators and Predators" is the subject of the next brown bag lunch. Pollinators, including birds, bees, and animals, are critical to fruit and seed production and are disappearing at alarming rates due to habitat loss, pesticide poisonings, diseases, and pests - important information for both agriculture and landscape conservationists. The speaker, Gary Nabhan, is director of the Center for Sustainable Environments, Northern Arizona University and co-founder of the Migratory Pollinators' Project at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. He is the author of The Forgotten Pollinators as well as 12 other books including the forthcoming Coming Home to Eat: The Sensual Pleasures and Global Politics of Local Food. Evaluation Basics: Tools, Resources, Perspectives This workshop is the third in a series for new staff, following earlier workshops on legal basics and using financial information in grantmaking. The session will address:
Panelists include Bruce Fisher, Huckleberry Programs; Ethel Long-Scott, Women's Economic Agenda Project; Michelle McGee, Harder & Co. Community Research; Martha Campbell, The James Irvine Foundation; Mike Howe, East Bay Community Foundation; and Lucìa Corral Peña, The California Wellness Foundation. The workshop was developed by Carrie Avery, Durfee Foundation; Ruth Brousseau, The California Wellness Foundation; Don Jen, Marin Community Foundation; Victor Kuo, The James Irvine Foundation; and Hanh Cao Yu, Social Policy Research Associates, who will also serve as workshop presenters. The next New Staff Orientation to be presented by NCG is planned for Fall 2002. The Council on Foundations will present its Institute for New Grantmakers (formerly the Institute for New Program Staff) December 3-5, 2001 at the Westin Grand Hotel in Washington, D.C. Registration and information is now available on-line at www.cof.org/conferences/ing2001/ing2001.htm. Public Affairs Council The two-day "West Coast Public Affairs Training Seminar" presented by the Public Affairs Council is tailored specifically for new or relatively inexperienced public affairs professionals seeking an overview of the public affairs function. A faculty recognized for its expertise will share with their companies' best practices as the sessions examine virtually every facet of the function. San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown will share his secrets to success while working in the political system. Seminar sessions will be led public affairs practitioners from Microsoft, Bank of America, PacifiCare Health Systems, WellPoint Health Networks, Goddard Claussen, National Semiconductor Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard Company. Participants will also put the new skills they acquire to immediate use via team exercises. Cost is $695 for members and $1,045 for nonmembers. Visit the website at www.pac.org for more information or to register. Association of Fundraising Professionals A special "fireside" chat with leading philanthropist and author Claude Rosenberg will kick off the new fall session of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Golden Gate Chapter luncheons. Mr. Rosenberg will discuss such topics as how to make potential donors think more positively and generously about giving, unique approaches and tools to encourage wealthy individuals to become more substantial donors in the future, and creative changes that the nonprofit sector should consider as philanthropy and the world change around us. Mr. Rosenberg is founder of both NewTithing Group, a not-for-profit organization committed to increasing affordable charitable giving, and RCM Capital Management (now Dresdner-RCM Global Investors). He has published five books including Stock Market Primer and Wealthy and Wise: How You and America Can Get the Most Out of Your Giving. Honors awarded Mr. Rosenberg include the Daniel J. Forrestal Leadership Award from the Association for Investment Management and Research for developing standardized guidelines of money manager performance; the Arbuckle Award, the highest honor for management excellence awarded by the Stanford Graduate School of Business; and the de Tocqueville Award from United Way. Cost is $35 for non-AFP members and $25 for AFP chapter members. Register online at www.secure.entango.com/donate/trhxRJEfg7N or fax your reservation to 650-344-1588. Foundation Center At the Foundation Center's August "Meet the Grantmakers" session, panelists Fatima Angeles, The California Wellness Foundation; Joyce Fung-Yee, Levi Strauss Foundation; Mary Gregory, Kirkwood Family Foundation; and Pamela Ulmer, McKesson HBOC Foundation, will describe their organizations' funding priorities and guidelines. This free program is an opportunity for novice grantseekers to learn about the grantmaking process. The Foundation Center's "Meet the Grantmakers" session on September 20, will focus on technology funding. This month's "Grants That Make a Difference" feature on the center's website profiles a grants program that aims to strengthen youth-serving nonprofits. The James Irvine Foundation's Youth Development Initiative offered an integrated package of capacity-building services to 20 California youth-serving organizations in Fresno and Los Angeles and then reported the results. Visit www.fdncenter.org and click on San Francisco to find the profile. Humanities and the Professions Jim Meyers will lead a discussion of The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields at the next meeting of the book group. This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995 when it won the Pulitzer Prize. At this session, the book group plans to discuss the selection of books, the focus of the discussions, and more general questions about the nature and goals of the group. Community Foundations of America Community Foundations Institute Foundation Strategy Group Association of Fundraising Professionals, Golden Gate Chapter and Special Briefing The Legal Services Affinity Group, along with Northern California Grantmakers, will present a forum on a new report by the Rockefeller Foundation, Louder than Words: Lawyers, Communities and the Struggle for Justice. Dayna Cunningham, associate director of Rockefeller's Working Communities' Project, will discuss the report and ways funders can incorporate legal advocacy strategies to promote social justice. The report describes the broad range of issues in which lawyers have played a role in helping communities and organizations overcome racial and social injustice in education, employment, civic participation, immigration, health access, housing, and environmental arenas. These legal strategies are relevant to solving some of our most intractable problems. The forum will include a discussion of the evolving role of legal services-or community lawyering-as part of a comprehensive problem-solving effort that the Legal Services Affinity Group aims to promote. Briefing sponsors include The James Irvine Foundation, Rosenberg Foundation, Zellerbach Family Fund, and Van Loben Sels Foundation. Meet the Grantmakers Meet the Author Special Briefing Celebrating Solutions! empowers individuals and communities throughout the Bay Area to take action, and by putting technological tools in the hands of people who need them most, helps bridge the digital divide and build social capital. Meet some of the project's key staff and supporters including: Chet Hewitt, formerly of the Rockefeller Foundation and now director for Alameda County's Department of Children & Family Services; Ruth Rubalcava, executive director of CHALK, a Bay Area-based non-profit using technology to empower and educate youth; Stephen Silha, research partner of "Good News, Good Deeds" and co-author of their report, "Telling Stories: Building Community by Improving Communication"; Michelle McGurk, communications director of Community Foundation Silicon Valley, with the recent "Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey"; Ellison Horne, early childhood educator and co-executive producer and creator of Celebrating Solutions!; David Kennard, award-winning producer of national PBS projects including "Cosmos", "Connections", and "The Ascent of Man," and co-executive producer of Celebrating Solutions! Short media pieces will be shown, including excerpts from David Kennard's PBS series "The Promise of Play" featuring Celebrating Solutions! host Michael Pritchard and his violence prevention work with teens. Briefing sponsors include The San Francisco Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and United Way of the Bay Area. Management Center Nonprofit Study Section Foundation Center Association of Fundraising Professionals - Golden Gate Chapter Foundation for Deep Ecology The Funders Working Group on Sustainable Consumption and Production Partnerships Conference with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Corporate Contributions Roundtable Jann Taber of PG&E's news department will conduct an in-depth workshop for corporate funders that will cover the power of publicity, news vs. advertising, news releases, media advisory, media kit, media contacts, and media relations. In March, Union Bank hosted a roundtable session on corporate volunteer programs led by C.J. van Pelt of Cisco Systems, and Cindy Detwiler of Union Bank. Corporate contributions roundtable breakfast programs are being planned for July, September, and November. Family Foundation Seminar NCG's Family Foundations Network is pleased to present Karen Green, managing director of the Council on Foundation's Family Foundation Services, in a program on trends in foundation trusteeship. Ms. Green will share the latest findings of the council's survey and will answer questions from participants. |
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