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April 2010 |
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A monthly e-newsletter for people interested in Florida philanthropy |
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Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation Backs Orlando's Google Push
The Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation committed up to $100,000 to help nonprofits fully implement
a ultra-high-speed Internet network
if Google selects Orlando as a test site for the
network. City residents and businesses can lobby Google
to choose Orlando at
GetGoogling.com.
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Jessie Ball duPont Fund Helps Florida Girl Scouts Go Green
The Jessie Ball duPont Fund awarded $132,000 to Girl Scouts of the USA to pilot environmental projects in five Florida Girl Scout councils. The grant was among 14 awards
totaling $1.9 million made by trustees in February,
of which four grants totaling more than $530,000 supported work in Florida. |
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Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Ranked Among Nation’s Most Efficient Charities
A recent editorial in the Tampa Tribune praised the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay for once again being ranked among the most efficient charities in the country, according to Charity Navigator.
The foundation recently celebrated its
20th anniversary of giving. |
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Patterson Foundation Helps Partnership for Needy Reach New Milestone
Season of Sharing, a 10-year community-wide fundraising partnership for the needy in Sarasota, Charlotte, Manatee and DeSoto counties, reached an unprecedented $1.5 million in donations in March, thanks to a $250,000 outright grant and a $250,000 matching challenge from The Patterson Foundation. Season of Sharing was created by the Herald-Tribune Media Group and the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. |
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Community Foundation of North Florida, Knight Foundation Partner to Advance "Informed, Engaged" Tallahassee
The Community Foundation of North Florida will receive up to $2.5 million over the next seven years from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to foster an "informed, engaged" Tallahassee. The effort is part of Knight’s Community Foundation Initiative
to deepen its focus on ensuring communities have the information they need to make decisions about their lives.
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Publix Gives Second Harvest Its
Largest Donation of the Year
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Cape Coral Community Foundation Fund Helps Create Park Dedicated to Local Toddler
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Knight-Funded Initiative Will Seek New National Model for Nonprofit Investigative Journalism
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The Community Foundation in Jacksonville Help Seniors, Children
and Youth
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FPN News |
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(l-r) David Biemesderfer, FPN; Javier Soto, Dade
Community Foundation; Patricia Mulvaney, Lillian S.
Wells Foundation; Congressman Ron Klein. |
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FPN Meets With Legislators on Capitol Hill
FPN led a team of 10 Florida grantmakers to Washington,
D.C., on March 17 for visits with 22 members of
Florida's congressional delegation and their staffs, as
part of the annual Foundations on the Hill event, which
was co-sponsored by the Council on Foundations and the
Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers. FPN
coordinated and led the Florida delegation for the
event, as part of FPN's ongoing public policy efforts to
protect, promote and strengthen Florida's philanthropy
and grantmaking field.
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How Florida Foundations Are Using Social Media: FPN Program Video Highlights
At an FPN session on Feb. 11, prior to FPN's 2010 Summit, a panel of Florida grantmakers
described how they are using social media to help
support and advance their work. Click the link
above to view video highlights.
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Economy Matters |
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State Budget Crises: Ripping the Safety Net Held by Nonprofits
A new report by the National Council of Nonprofits
paints a sobering picture of how nonprofits are facing
three serious threats from state governments owing to
the current economic recession: governments slashing
funds for programs they expect nonprofits to deliver,
withholding payments from nonprofits for contracted
services already delivered, and seeking revenue from
nonprofits through new fees and taxes. The report
outlines how these troubling trends impact all
nonprofits and produce a ripple effect hurting communities, charities, foundations and, paradoxically, government itself.
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People |
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Robert Briggs
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Mark Constantine
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Robert Briggs has begun his four-year
term as chairman of the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation’s board of
trustees. Briggs became a Knight
Foundation trustee in 2002 and served as
vice chair from 2005 until his
appointment as chair elect in March
2009. He is president of the GAR
Foundation in Akron and chairman
emeritus and former CEO of the law firm
Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs.
Briggs succeeds W. Gerald Austen, M.D.,
who has been a foundation trustee since
1987 and served as chairman of the board
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Mark D. Constantine has
been named vice
president for strategy, policy and
learning at the Jessie Ball duPont Fund.
He served as senior fellow for
the Fund from 2005 through 2009, and
before that, advised the Fund as an
independent consultant. |
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Julie Scales,
executive director of the Pinellas
Community Foundation, was elected to
the board of directors of the
Pinellas County Estate Planning Council. |
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Jobs |
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New job postings on
FPN's Jobs Board: |
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New Resources |
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Trading Power
This new report shows that baby boomers, confronted with longer life expectancy and
shriveled retirement savings, are choosing to stay on in leadership positions in the independent sector. Unfortunately, this means that Gen X-ers and Millennials are left waiting for the torch to be passed. Produced
by the Council on Foundations, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies’ 21/64, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and Resource Generation, the report contains 18 interviews
with sector leaders, both younger and older, offering their perspectives on the impact of this trend
for the field, and what can be done about it. |
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AT&T Releases Report on Ending High School Dropout Epidemic
AT&T has released a new report addressing the nation's high school dropout epidemic from the perspective of students, teachers and parents, offering a number of recommendations on how to confront the problem at the local level. The report is based on group discussions that brought together teachers, parents and students for candid, face-to-face dialogues in four communities, and includes a discussion guide that can be used to facilitate similar discussions in other communities. |
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Honors |
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Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice’s 2009 Annual Report and 2010 desk calendar received honors in the 2010 Suncoast ADDY Awards competition. The awards for creative excellence in local advertising were presented recently by the American Advertising Federation-Suncoast Chapter. |
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Publix Super Markets, Inc. received a special Pinnacle award for its ongoing corporate and employee support of the United Way in Polk County. |
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