November 2011 |
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A monthly e-newsletter for people interested in Florida
philanthropy |
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Headlines |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Corporate Giving News |
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Community Foundation News |
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Community Indicators |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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People |
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Francisco Borges |
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Joichi Ito |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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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Jobs |
Recent job postings on
FPN's Jobs Board: |
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Funding Opportunities |
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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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