November 2011        
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Jessie Ball duPont Fund    Jessie Ball duPont Fund Invests in Affordable Housing in Duval
The Jessie Ball duPont Fund announced plans to invest $2 million to develop and preserve affordable rental housing for low-income individuals and families in Duval County. The investment - in the form of loans to developers - is intended to increase the local inventory of affordable rental housing and the capacity of nonprofit and for-profit organizations to provide the housing. The investment is being made not through grants, but through a Program Related Investment (PRI) to the Florida Community Loan Fund. The duPont Fund has created a primer on PRIs that describes its PRI strategy.
       
Helios Education Foundation   Helios Education Foundation Partners With University of Tampa to Increase Graduation Rates & College Success
Helios Education Foundation and The University of Tampa have partnered on a new initiative to increase college graduation rates for first-generation and under-represented students. Helios is investing $1.3 million over four years in the initiative, which will focus on full-time UT students from Florida who are studying mathematics, education, technology and science-related disciplines.
   
> Publix Tops List of 50 U.S. Companies With Best CSR Reputations
Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets earned the No. 1 spot, followed by Google and UPS, in the 2011 ranking of the 50 companies with the best corporate citizenship reputations among the U.S. public, as compiled by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and Reputation Institute. The Walt Disney Company is No. 12 on the list.
    
> Dr. Phillips Charities Helps Build Innovative In-Kind Donation Center for Domestic Violence Facility
Harbor House of Central Florida, a nonprofit anti-domestic-violence agency, received a challenge grant from Dr. Phillips Charities to help build an In-kind Donation Center that will allow survivors entering the Harbor House emergency shelter to bring valuables with them, making them more comfortable with entering the shelter. It will also ensure Harbor House is able to accept more donations such as perishable food, construction materials, cleaning supplies, etc. and will cut expenses for these items.
   
> Winter Park Health Foundation Grant Will Help Build Healthy Habits at Early Age
Hoping to cultivate healthy habits among children even before they reach elementary school, the Winter Park Health Foundation approved a $50,000 grant to Nemours to launch the Nemours Child Care Obesity Prevention Initiative in Eatonville, Maitland and Winter Park child care settings.
    
> Patterson Foundation Extends Partnership With USF Health Match
The Patterson Foundation extended its $5.6 million collaborative partnership with USF Health for the Bringing Science Home initiative from three years to five years. The foundation also announced a dollar-for-dollar matching challenge up to $2 million for donations benefiting the initiative.
 
Corporate Giving News
 
> Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Foundation Helps Build Capacity of St. Johns County Dental Clinic Serving Uninsured Patients
    
> JPMorgan Chase Awards $10M for Global Cities Initiative That Includes 4 Florida Cities
   
> Wells Fargo Helps Hispanic Services Council Increase Tech Capacity
 
Community Foundation News
 
> New Community Foundation Grants Support Education, Nonprofit Sector, Aging Adults and the Arts in Northeast Florida
   
> Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Awards New Grants to Support At-Risk Youth, Employment/Job Training Initiatives
    
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Hunger Bill Report   Florida's "Hunger Bill" Is Fastest-Growing in Nation
Florida experienced the sharpest increase in the cost of hunger between 2007 and 2010, a 62% increase, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress. The report shows that hunger cost Florida at least $11.72 billion in 2010 due to the combination of lost economic productivity per year, more expensive public education because of the rising costs of poor education outcomes, avoidable health care costs, and the cost of charity to keep families fed. This figure does not include the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the other key federal nutrition programs.
 
> Jacksonville, Tampa Among Most Advanced in Municipal Leadership for Afterschool, New Report Shows
Jacksonville and Tampa are among 27 cities identified as being among the most advanced in their efforts to coordinate afterschool opportunities for children and youth, according to a new report published by the National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education and Families and commissioned by The Wallace Foundation. The report describes how these cities have made a fundamental shift in their approach to afterschool programming, moving from management and funding of isolated programs toward in-depth coordination among city, school and nonprofit providers. Their efforts are yielding concrete gains in academic outcomes and public safety.
    
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Focus On: Florida Arts & The Economy
   
Culture Builds Florida   Officials Launch Campaign to Promote Economic Benefits of Florida's Arts & Culture
In October Secretary of State Kurt Browning announced the launch of Culture Builds Florida, an initiative to promote Florida's arts and cultural communities while highlighting their economic benefits. Led by the Florida Department of State's Division of Cultural Affairs, the campaign seeks to create better awareness of how arts and culture help create a vibrant and thriving Florida. According to a study by Americans for the Arts, Florida's arts and culture offer an annual economic impact of $3 billion, a $5 to $1 return on investment for state dollars and more than 88,000 full-time equivalent jobs each year.
 
> New Models for Arts Journalism Receive Knight Foundation Funding
Five projects that offer innovative models for local arts journalism will receive funding to help make their projects a reality, as finalists of the Knight/NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge, which was founded this summer to find new ways to use technology to inform and engage people in the arts. The finalists include ArtSpotMiami, which will be an online arts journalism marketplace and mobile application where citizen journalists pitch stories about Miami's arts scene, the public pays for the stories they like and traditional media organizations team with the citizen journalists to produce the stories.
   
> Some Arts Groups Struggle, Some Succeed in South Florida
South Florida's star is rising on the global arts scene, but many local groups continue to struggle with economic woes. Still, relatively few have folded, The Miami Herald reports.
    
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Francisco Borges  
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Sarah Owen
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> Teri A. Hansen, president/CEO of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, received the Tampa Bay Partnership Chair's Cup for Excellence in Regionalism, an award that recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions, exhibited leadership, and advocated for resources to enhance economic development in the Tampa Bay region.
   
> The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced the appointment of seven new members to its board of directors: Stephanie Bell-Rose, a managing director of TIAA-CREF and head of the TIAA-CREF Institute; Francisco L. Borges, chair and managing partner at Landmark Partners and former treasurer of the NAACP; Susan D. Kronick, retired vice chair of Macy's, Inc. and Anna Spangler Nelson, chair of private investment firm Spangler Companies, Inc. The new board members also include three of the nation's most influential new media leaders: Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook; Joichi Ito, director of MIT's Media Lab; and John Palfrey, professor at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
   
> Sarah Owen has been appointed chief executive officer of the Southwest Florida Community Foundation. For the past six years she served as CEO of Community Cooperative Ministries Inc., a nonprofit serving the homeless and hungry across Southwest Florida. Her career has included working in investor relations and corporate communications for publicly traded companies on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as private companies throughout the Southeastern United States.
   
> Nina Waters, president of The Community Foundation in Jacksonville, was profiled recently in the Jacksonville Daily Record's Nonprofit CEO Showcase.
    
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> Program Manager, Community Foundation of Broward.
    
    
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> Health Foundation of South Florida
The foundation is accepting applications for projects focused on improving the health status of underserved populations in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. Preliminary grant proposals due by Dec. 5.
    
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