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Member Benefit Highlight
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What can AGF do for your organization?
Attend meetings from your desk!
No need to commute.
No webcam needed.
We offer full audio & visual access to our meetings for up to 25 participants through WebEx!
Contact Tom or Emma to learn more.
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Member Q&A Results
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Projected 2012 Grantmaking
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 Survey results are in! Thank you to all who participated in our most recent member survey. We asked you for your perspective on projected grantmaking for 2012. See the numbers and view the comments.
New affinity groups We are launching two new affinity groups this year. The Health Funders Affinity group will launch later this spring and the Evaluation and Impact group will hold its inaugural meeting on April 4, 11:30-1:30. Click here to register.
Welcome to three new members who joined in February and March - Marguerite Casey Foundation, Latina Giving Circle and Scottsdale League for the Arts.
Relocation reminder AGF is happily relocated in our new office space at the Arizona Community Foundation. Make sure to update your records to reflect our new address (2201 E. Camelback Rd., Ste. 405B, Phoenix, 85016).
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May 8 Corporate Funders Group Meeting
May 16 Small/Family Foundation Roundtable
May 24 Impact of Arizona State Budget on Education & Human Services
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Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust recognized for support of programs focused on older adults The National Council on Aging in Washington D.C. will recognize Piper with an Arthur Flemming award for a decade of work supporting older adults in Maricopa County. Piper also announced $3.6 million in grants covering a range of programs, including support to parents of blind children, improving arts & culture venues in the Valley, and expanding the Encore Fellows program. Full press release available here.
Flinn Foundation names former Flinn Scholar as director Matt Ellsworth, a former Flinn Scholar and a five-year Flinn Foundation staff member, has been named director of the Flinn Scholar program. Read more.
Helios Joins Science Foundation Arizona To Launch The Arizona STEM Network Helios Education Foundation announced their collaboration with Science Foundation Arizona, a nonprofit public-private partnership, to implement the Arizona STEM Network. This 5-year plan to develop science, technology, engineering, and math education in Arizona has been primarily funded by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Foundation, who have committed to an additional 3-year, $2.2 million investment towards this initiative. More info.
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Wayne Parker
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
Director of Research & Evaluation
Name: Wayne Parker
Age: 65
Birthplace: Lynn, Massachusetts
Family: Married, 5 children, 10 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren
First or most interesting job: My first nonprofit job was as a psychiatric technician in an inpatient psychiatric unit.
Hobbies/Favorite pastime: Reading (particularly about politics), movies, bridge, animal rescue
Path to Philanthropy: My professional career has had as many zigzags as Madonna's. Community mental health psychologist, college teaching, International Rep for the AFL-CIO, restaurant and bar owner, teaching in international schools, researcher, to philanthropy is a pretty circuitous route.
Favorite quote or motto: "Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides." - Andre Malraux |
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Council on Foundations' Public Policy Resource Page
Find plenty of recent coverage on this year's Foundations on the Hill. Click here to read more.
 Arizona Grantmaker's Forum Public Policy Resource Page AGF's public policy page provides links to a wide variety of resources for organizations just beginning to explore public policy work or those that are already engaged. One item posted here is the Public Policy Matrix which lists both nonprofits and funders who are engaged along the entire continuum of public policy work. If you want to see the wide variety of activities currently underway in Arizona, check out our resources! |
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Looking for a job in the philanthropic sector in Arizona? Visit the
Jobs page on the AGF website today!
Local Events
April 25 Family Business Forum Presented by the Arizona Community Foundation's Pakis Center for Business Philanthropy, the first session in the 2012 Family Business Forum series will take place in April. During the session titled Best Practices for Families in Business, family business consultant Leslie Dashew, MSW, will discuss the best practices of successful family-owned businesses and share a tool that participants can use to assess their own implementation of best practices. To view ACF's original invitation of the Family Business Forum, please click here.
May 1 85 Broads Power Breakfast on Strategic Philanthropy "With strategic philanthropy, donors no longer give and hope that things will be better. Donors and recipients partner to create social change." Join presenters Joan Koerber-Walker and April Lewallen to discuss ways to create efficiency and maximize the impact of funded dollars. RSVP here.
May 8-9 AZENet Conference The theme for this year's Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENet) Spring Conference is 'Building Capacity for Organizational Effectiveness.' Learn what research shows builds capacity for organizational effectiveness. Join us for a day of dynamic presentations and small group discussions, including speaker Pete York, an evaluation and capacity building expert from TCC Group. More information on the conference topics here. Register here. Please contact Cassandra O'Neill at cassandraoneill@comcast.net or 520 403-0687 with questions.
National Philanthropy News & Events
Sept. 19-21 2012 Rocky Mountain Tax Seminar for Private Foundations, Colorado Springs. Sponsored by El Pomar Foundation. For more information go to www.rmtaxseminar.org
Check out AGF's compilation of national philanthropic websites "Calendar of Events" for a complete list .
For a list of more national webinars, visit the Council on Foundations comprehensive Events page.
Other Resources:
Chronicle of Philanthropy
Council on Foundations Newsroom
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