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JUST THE FACTS is a monthly GCYF e-newsletter providing up-to-date information regarding children, youth, and families for the grantmaking community. In this issue we highlight GCYF's 2010 Annual Conference pre-conference institutes and new GCYF publications. As always, we invite you to check out our member spotlight, featuring new funder activities.
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GCYF ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
IN-DEPTH PRE-CONFERENCE INSTITUTES
Don't miss GCYF's 2010 Annual Conference, Children, Youth & Families: The Centerpiece of Change, which will feature three,
4 hour pre-conference institutes focusing on building policy and advocacy and grantmaking skills to ensure that children, youth, and families are at the center of change.
Each Institute, held Sunday, October 10, will be a content-rich session, designed to give participants a new framework, skill or tool to use in his or her own work.
- Pre-Conference Institute 1: The Ins and Outs of a Children's Budget
- Pre-Conference Institute 2: Evaluating Advocacy and Public Policy Grantmaking
- Pre-Conference Institute 3: Creating Authentic Youth Engagement
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 CHECK OUT THE NEWEST ISSUE OF INSIGHT
GCYF's Summer 2010 Insight, Tipping the Scale: Philanthropy's Role in Addressing Childhood Obesity, explores the causes and consequences of the rise in childhood obesity, strategies being employed to combat the epidemic, and the many ways that philanthropy is working in the movement to create healthy children and communities. This publication builds on GCYF's recent webinar on this topic.
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 JUST RELEASED: Philanthropic Efforts to Address Childhood Hunger and Nutrition
This year, policymakers will address important hunger and nutrition public policy questions at both the federal and state levels--in particular, through reauthorization of the federal Child Nutrition Act. In a new report, Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (GCYF) and Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce (GIST) address how the philanthropic community can continue to inform and influence this year's important policy deliberations on child nutrition and hunger issues. |
 GCYF'S NEWEST LEARNING INITIATIVE: HEALTHY MEN, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
Have you heard about GCYF's newest learning initiative? The Healthy Men, Healthy Communities (HMHC) Initiative is a network of grantmaking institutions and individual donors committed to increasing the strategic investment of philanthropic dollars to address the disproportionately negative life outcomes of males of color. Checkout the July edition of the HMHC Newsletter featuring current topics affecting men and boys of color and highlighting the latest resources from the field. |
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This month's Member Spotlight features the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the KIDS COUNT initiative, an effort to identify, examine, and support both national and state-by-state projects
on indicators of child well-being. The Casey Foundation supports KIDS COUNT projects in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to raise public awareness and accountability for the condition of kids and families. The Casey Foundation also uses the research to advocate for the well-being of children at the state and local levels. In many states, KIDS COUNT has acted as a catalyst for public and private initiatives to improve children's lives. To learn more about the Annie E. Casey Foundation and access the KIDS COUNT Data Book, click here.
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CHECK OUT THE CYF EVENT CALENDAR
As a resource for our members, GCYF has created an online
calendar of events featuring learning opportunities for grantmakers who fund children, youth and family (CYF) programs. Don't miss the upcoming August events including:
August 3, 2:30pm ET - Evaluating Advocacy: Lessons from an Effort to Advance the Children's Health Care Coverage Policy Agenda, a Grantmakers in Health audioconference
August 4, 3:00pm ET - Keeping Our Promise: How Can Funders Support Promise Neighborhoods to Increase Educational Opportunity in Distressed Communities?, a teleconference co-sponsored by the Foundation Center and Foundations for Education Excellence |
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