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A monthly e-newsletter for people interested in Florida philanthropy |
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Eckerd Family Foundation to Spend Last Dollar, Close Up Shop
The Eckerd Family Foundation, endowed with $100 million
from Jack Eckerd's fortune from his Eckerd Drugs chain,
is winding down its long-held mission to help troubled
youth and foster children. The foundation plans to spend the remainder of its funds by 2012 and close its doors by 2014. |
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Patterson Foundation Helps Launch Chronic Disease Collaboration
The Patterson Foundation has partnered with the University of South Florida to help people better manage chronic disease. The partnership includes a $5.6 million gift from the foundation to launch Bringing Science Home, an
initiative to develop new ways of educating, training and caring for populations with chronic disease. |
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Economy Matters |
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Jacksonville Grantmakers Relaunch Community Safety Net Fund
As the number of needy persons in Jacksonville continues to grow, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund and other private donors in the Jacksonville area have come together to reopen the Community Safety Net Fund, which sustains nonprofit organizations providing food, shelter and emergency assistance. The Jessie Ball duPont Fund
invested $500,000 in the Safety Net Fund, the Lucy
Gooding Charitable Foundation contributed $200,000 and other private donors have added an additional $110,000. |
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Basic Needs Campaign Gets Boost
From Winter Park Health Foundation
The Heart of Florida United Way's Basic Needs Campaign received $75,000
from the Winter Park Health Foundation Older Adults Work Group to help families where an older adult resides in Eatonville, Maitland and Winter Park. Work Group members were moved to provide additional support after receiving reports that older adults continue to struggle in this economy. The Basic Needs Campaign
provides immediate financial help to Central Floridians needing
assistance with food, rent, transportation and other life essentials. |
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Gulf Oil Spill News |
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Foundation Considering Multi-Million Dollar Prize for Gulf Spill Fix
The X PRIZE Foundation, which offers cash awards for
solutions to large-scale technological challenges, is
building its latest $10-million competition around the
BP oil spill, according to Fast Company. The foundation
says it is "considering, but has not yet developed,"
such a multi-million dollar competition. "We are currently consulting with experts and advisors on the viability of this potential competition to incentivize the development of
rapidly-deployable methods for the clean-up of crude oil along our coastlines and within our oceans," the foundation said in a
statement. |
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For more information, visit FPN's
Oil Spill Relief & Recovery Resource Page
on our website. |
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Education Funding News |
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Florida Community Foundations Help Hundreds of Students Achieve College Education
Three of Florida's largest community foundations recently awarded scholarships to nearly 700 deserving students to help them reach their goal of higher education.
Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice awarded 366 scholarships totaling more than $450,000 to students from Sarasota and Charlotte counties and Boca Grande for the 2010-11 academic year. The
Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties helped 75 inspiring local students attend college
with $558,600 in scholarships from 40 separate scholarship funds established by donors.
The Community Foundation of Sarasota County awarded scholarships totaling $515,900 to 251 students in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties, part of the more than $1.1 million in scholarships that the foundation awarded in its 2009-10 fiscal year - the third year in a row that its scholarships have surpassed $1 million. |
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Helios Education
Foundation Teams Up With Tampa Bay Rays to Support
Education
The Helios Education Foundation has teamed up with the Rays Baseball Foundation and the United Way of Tampa Bay to help children achieve their education potential. Each time the Tampa Bay Rays score a run from May 24-July 11, Helios will donate $250 to the United Way's
education initiative focused on helping children and youth increase their school readiness, build academic success and develop strong life skills. |
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Giving Trends |
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Number of People Volunteering Up in 2009, Report Finds
Despite difficult economic times, the number of Americans volunteering in their communities jumped by 1.6 million last year, the largest increase in six years, a new report from the Corporation for National and Community Service finds. The annual Volunteering in America report found that 63.4 million Americans volunteered through a formal organization last year, giving more than 8.1 billion hours of volunteer service worth an estimated $169 billion.
Florida's volunteer rate ranks 47th out of the 50 states and DC. |
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Florida's Largest Grantmakers
FPN's latest listings of Florida's top 50 grantmakers
(ranked by both grants paid and assets) are now
accessible anytime from FPN's website. |
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FPN News |
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FPN President, Members Named to Florida Chamber
Quality of Life Caucus
FPN President & CEO David Biemesderfer
has been named to the Florida Chamber Foundation's Quality of Life & Quality Places Caucus,
a group that will provide long-term and visionary policy
recommendations to the Florida Chamber on quality of
life issues in Florida. Members of the Quality of
Life Caucus Steering Committee include several FPN
members: Teri Hansen, Gulf Coast
Community Foundation of Venice; David Odahowski, Edyth Bush
Charitable Foundation; and Susan Towler,
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida. |
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FPN Forms Oil Spill Task Force
FPN has formed an Oil Spill Task Force of its members to
explore ideas on how Florida's philanthropic sector can
work together to address critical needs related to the
Gulf oil spill disaster, in the short term and/or long
term. For more information, contact David
Biemesderfer at 407-478-6263,
dbiemesderfer@fpnetwork.org. |
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People |
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Marlon A. Hill
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Benoit Wirz
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John Bracken named director of new media for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Previously, Bracken served as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
where he managed investments in technology and innovation and global Internet freedom. |
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Scott Collins, Bayne Stevenson and Tommy Taylor elected to the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice's board of directors. In addition, the board elected
Jim Gallogly as chair and
Elton White as vice chair. |
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Marlon A. Hill, founding partner with the law firm of Delancyhill in Miami, and
Divina Grossman, vice president for engagement at Florida International University,
have been elected to the Dade Community Foundation's board of governors. |
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Vince Roig, chairman of the board of
the Helios Education Foundation, named to Teach For America's national board of directors. |
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Benoit Wirz
appointed as director of business consulting, a newly created position, for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Wirz
was previously a private equity and business expert and founder of US Global, where he helped take businesses from start-up to profitability. |
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Jobs |
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New job postings on
FPN's Jobs Board: |
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Grant Opportunities |
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2010 GLBT Community Projects Fund Grants Program
Dade Community Foundation
The Fund seeks proposals to address key GLBT community needs and issues and reach particularly vulnerable GLBT populations. Click above for more information and current funding priorities. Deadline: July 9. |
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Health Foundation of South Florida
The foundation welcomes proposals for projects focused on improving the health status of underserved populations in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. Preliminary grant proposals due by Aug. 2. |
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Welcome New FPN Member |
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Lucy Gooding Charitable Foundation Trust
Jacksonville |
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