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A monthly e-newsletter for people interested in Florida philanthropy |
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Helios Education Foundation Provides Match for Florida i3 Grant
Take Stock in Children, a nonprofit providing mentors,
educational scholarships and hope for Florida's
low-income and at-risk youth, received a $1 million grant from the Helios Education Foundation that fulfills its 20% match requirement
as a recipient of $5 million from the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) grant program. |
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Wells Fargo Supports
Affordable Housing Efforts in Florida
Wells Fargo's Housing Foundation awarded grants totaling $5 million to nonprofit housing
groups in 34 communities, including four Florida cities (Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Palm Beach, Tampa).
The grants are part of the company's nationwide effort to increase the availability of affordable housing. |
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Focus On: Media Innovation |
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Knight Foundation Opens Media Innovation Contest,
Receives Google Grant
The fifth year of the Knight News Challenge, a media
innovation contest, funded and run by the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation, has opened for applications
(deadline is Dec. 1). Knight offers $5 million each year
for ideas to use digital platforms to deliver news and information to geographically defined communities. For the first time this year, the Challenge will focus on four categories: Mobile, Authenticity,
Sustainability and Community. Also for the first time, a
grant from Google Inc. to Knight Foundation will be partially used to increase the prize money by $1 million. Google gave $2 million to support Knight's media innovation initiatives.
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Patterson Foundation Enables New Media Journalism Innovation
At a time when the future of traditional journalism is in flux, The Patterson Foundation recently supported the Block by Block Community News Summit in Chicago,
where more than 100 operators of local news sites and
blogs from across the country met for the first time to
discuss community news innovation and sustainability. |
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Focus On: Community Colleges |
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Gates Foundation Commits to Increase
Completion Rates at Two-Year Colleges
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $34.8 million, five-year commitment to raise stagnant completion rates in the nation's two-year public institutions. Lagging completion rates in two-year colleges are seen as a major
impediment to meeting the Obama administration's goal of regaining the world lead in college degrees by 2020. |
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FPN News |
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Tampa Bay Funders Forum Merges With Florida Philanthropic Network
Tampa Bay Funders Forum, a network of charitable foundations and other grantmakers in the Tampa Bay region, will merge with
FPN effective Jan. 1, 2011. The purpose of the Tampa
Bay Funders Forum will remain the same - creating an opportunity for funders to meet, share and discuss ideas impacting the funding community.
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FPN Program Video
Archive: A Conversation With George Sheldon
George Sheldon, Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families, spoke at an
FPN convening on Oct. 14 in Orlando about the Department's top priorities; successful and innovative public-private partnerships
and the role funders have played in these partnerships; and how funders can help sustain and expand successful outcomes.
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Economy Matters |
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Human Service Nonprofits Report Late Payments, Other Problems With Government Contracts
Almost 41% of human service groups nationwide, and 28% in Florida, reported late payments from state, federal and local government sources in 2009, according
to a new report by the Urban Institute that is based on a survey of human service nonprofits. Florida has the 11th-highest percentage of problems regarding changes to government contracts/grants, but is just 41st in problems related to late payments. Other findings: 46% of Florida human services nonprofits
say they reduced or froze salaries in 2009; 43% cut staff.
Download the report or the
Florida profile. |
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Giving Trends |
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Donations Dropped a Record 11% at Nation's Biggest Charities
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that donations to the nation's biggest charities dropped 11%
last year - the worst decline in the two decades since The Chronicle started its Philanthropy 400 ranking of
groups that raise the most from private sources.
Nine Florida nonprofits are
on this year's list, led by Food for the Poor at No. 5, which saw its donations drop 27.6%. |
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People |
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Sarah Moore
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Nancy Jones named vice president for public affairs and communications at Dade Community Foundation. She previously was chief communications officer for the Community Foundation of Broward. |
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Sarah Moore, a junior in Riverview High School's International Baccalaureate Program, has joined the board of directors of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County as a full voting member. Moore recently completed Community Youth Development's STAR (Students Taking Active Roles) Leadership Training. |
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Jobs |
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Recent job postings on
FPN's Jobs Board: |
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Call for Nominations |
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The Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence
The Eisner Foundation welcomes nominations for the
inaugural Eisner Prize, a cash award of $100,000 given
to an individual or nonprofit for excellence in uniting
multiple generations, especially seniors and youth, to
bring about positive and lasting changes in their
community. Deadline: Jan. 31. |
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Welcome New FPN Member |
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Florida Philanthropic Network is a statewide association of grantmakers
working to strengthen philanthropy through research, education and public policy.
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