|
|
| San Diego Grantmakers Update | |
|
"It's like doing exercise. You are much more likely to stay with something if you have a community of colleagues with which to pursue that work."--Jane Wales, Global Philanthropy Forum |
August 2009 | |
|
|
| Welcome New Members
SDG welcomes two new members:
|
| Reminder: SDG is Moving
As we communicated last week, the SDG office is moving on August 19. Note our new address and contact information:
5060 Shoreham Place
Suite 350
San Diego, CA 92122
Phone: 858/875-3333
Fax: 858/202-1762
And please bear with us as we expect to experience an interruption in email service on August 19 and 20.
| |
New SDG Program on the Military
September 24, 2009
3:00pm-5:00pm
NTC Command Center, 2640 Historic Decatur Road, San Diego, CA 92106
Please join us for this joint program with SDG and the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation. San Diego has always been a military town, and right now many local service members have significant needs. So how can we, as grantmakers, help this important community? Our very special guests will be key current and retired military leaders, who will share information and personal insights on the urgent and compelling needs in our military community today. |
Funders and the 2010 Census
San Diego is one of the top 50 most "hard to count" counties in the country. For each person not counted, $11,500 in federal funding is lost over the next 10 years. Challenges to an accurate count include:
- Increasing diversity of population and growth in immigrant population
- Post-9/11 and "Internet age" concerns about data confidentiality
- Displacement related to economic downturn
Funders can play a role in ensuring a fair and accurate count in 2010. The Funders Census Initiative is a program of the national affinity group, Funders Committee for Civic Participation. This working group seeks to stimulate interest in the 2010 Census among funders and their grantees, particularly focused on hard-to-count communities. This includes those living in poverty and immigrant populations-both increasing in our region over the past 10 years. The San Diego Census 2010 Partnership will be holding a kick-off event on August 19 at 9:30am at the Joe and Vi Jacobs Cener to bring community based organizations and individuals together to maximize the number of Californians counted in our community. SDG will be hosting an event specifically for funders soon: watch for a program announcement. |
Program Materials Available
- Story Savvy: A Workshop for Grantmakers (7/10/09): Click here for the materials and other resources from our speaker, Karen Dietz. Remember, develop your organization's story and submit it with this form for the new San Diego Giving Stories Project!
- How to Be a Supportive Funder During the Economic Downturn (6/23/09): Click here (member login required) to access the materials.
- Building Diversity: A Survey of California Foundation Demographics, Policies, and Practices (8/12/09). SDG, working in collaboration with Southern California Grantmakers and Northern California Grantmakers and in partnership with the Foundation Center, announced the release of Building Diversity: A Survey of California Foundation Demographics (pdf), the second study commissioned to provide an overview of diversity in philanthropy. You can view the presentation (large pdf) from our August 12 webinar on the report.
|
Register Now: 2009 SDG Annual Conference on October 29
The 2009 SDG Annual Conference will be held on Thursday, October 29 at the Joe and Vi Jacobs Center again this year. The theme is "The Future of Philanthropy: Creating Silver Linings." We are delighted to host a distinguished group of expert speakers this year.
Register now for the conference! Save your space at the biggest SDG event of the year.
Interested in sponsoring? Click here (pdf) to download a sponsorship form. |
Member & Community Partner News
YOUR ORGANIZATION COULD BE FEATURED HERE! Don't forget to let SDG know what's new with you, from grantmaking to awards, events, and more. We want to share the good news about all of our members. To submit an item for the newsletter, email nancy@sdgrantmakers.org.
Alliance Healthcare Foundation is hosting an open house on August 21 from 8:30-11:30am at the Joe and Vi Jacobs Center. Learn about their new vision and grantmaking criteria. RVSP to rsvp@alliancehf.org.
The California Endowment is shifting to a place-based strategy and has selected City Heights in San Diego as one of 14 "Places" throughout CA on which to concentrate. Their comprehensive vision for community health includes collaboration, so TCE is holding a convening for funders interested in working together in City Heights. The meeting will be September 2 from 10am-12pm at the Price Charities conference room (4305 University Avenue, Suite 640). Please RSVP.
The Coastal Community Foundation Women's Fund is accepting applications (due September 2) for grants relating to women re-entering the workforce and mentoring programs for girls.
COF is seeking next generation philanthropic professionals and trustees (40 and under) to fulfill speaking, writing, and volunteer leadership opportunities. To get involved, fill out the Next Generation Engagement Profile.
In honor of its 10th anniversary, Cox Kids Foundation made a surprise donation of $100,000 to ten local nonprofits in June.
Deborah Lindholm of the Foundation for Women spoke at the Women and Wealth Asset Policy Forum. View video of the event here.
Jack in the Box will be honored as San Diego's Outstanding Philanthropic Corporation at National Philanthropy Day 2009.
The Jewish Community Foundation announced the election of three people to its Board of Directors: Barbara Bry, Susanna Flaster and Leo Spiegel. JCF also hosted its third annual Youth Philanthropy Camp, with youth participants allocating a total of $12,500 to various nonprofits. The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation is interested in supporting youth development programs located in Southern California, including Los Angeles and its surrounding areas, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Mendocino County. Programs might include (but are not limited to) organizations which provide youth with opportunities for arts enrichment, leadership development, and academic support or after-school programs. They would like to connect with other grantmakers with similar funding goals: email Program Officer Dinaz Mansuri. LEAD San Diego is seeking project proposals (due August 19). Do you know of a community-based organization with a project that could be initiated and completed between November 2009 and May 2010, but lacks the human resources to accomplish it?
At their recent annual meeting, themed "Generosity Never Loses its Value," The San Diego Foundation announced $60 million in grants for the past fiscal year, and its new board members.
On June 2, The San Diego Women's Foundation gave a total of $201,000 to four organizations in the focus area of Economic and Employment Development: Alliance for African Assistance, East County EDC Foundation, Home Start, Inc., and International Rescue Committee.
San Diego Social Venture Partners is seeking to invest in nonprofit organizations which create lasting change in the area of education in the San Diego Community. Click here for more info. In other SVP news, Alan Sorkin was interviewed on outcome measurement in the blog of Ken Berger, Charity Navigator president. Additionally, SDSVP and investee ARTS were featured on Channel 6's San Diego Living on The CW. |
Featured SDG Member Benefit
Your membership in SDG includes a host of different benefits! This month's featured benefit:
- SDG Guiding Principles: The Guiding Principles (pdf) are designed to promote greater
awareness and stimulate vibrant, healthy discourse among SDG members about good governance and practice. They are meant to help funders better understand their strengths and limitations while boosting operations and overall performance. The principles both reinforce legal requirements and reflect our aspirations toward higher ethical standards of good governance, effectiveness and the assuranceof the use of public and private money for the public good.
If you have questions about this or any other SDG member benefit, just let us know. |
|
Spotlight on SDG Collaborations: Coming Home to Stay
SDG convenes several different working groups and collaborations. These are groups of members that work together to leverage the power of their giving: by pooling funds and making grant decisions together, or "aligning" funding to some of the same grantees, or simply having regular learning sessions with presentations by subject experts. Each group is championed by a member or several members of SDG and facilitated by the SDG Funder Collaboration Consultant or Executive Director. This month we're highlighting:
The Coming Home to Stay Project
For the past two years, a group of foundation leaders organized by SDG have sought to address the issue of high recidivism rates among ex-offenders in City Heights and Southeast San Diego.
Robin never trusted the "system folks." She'd been in and out of jail seven times, and no program seemed to help her turn her life around. When she was finally linked with a woman with a similar past but who had made changes that stuck, life started changing for Robin. After that she was eager to become part of the Coming Home to Stay project in her neighborhood as a chance to help others learn from her experiences.
As an agency director, John tired of discussions of collaboration that always ended with competition over territory and money. He was apprehensive when he came to the first Coming Home to Stay meeting. However, he saw that this project was going to be different. Everyone around the table had a significant voice in designing a program that was not about inventing something new, but connecting the dots between providers as well as with the criminal justice system.
Ex-offenders returning to their communities face significant challenges to gaining employment and self-sufficiency, reconnecting with family, and achieving other milestones to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Currently, 74% of California ex-offenders return to prison. Just launching with the hiring of staff, the Coming Home to Stay project aims to link community based resources and the criminal justice system to provide clients a pathway to success, strengthened with transition advocacy and peer mentorship. The designers of this new strategy are traditionally-competing non-profit providers, formerly incarcerated men and women, and representatives from San Diego Sheriff's, District Attorney and Probation offices. We believe that this unique collaboration and program design will reap substantially better outcomes for ex-offenders, non-profits and criminal justice agencies alike.
Members: Alliance Healthcare Foundation, The California Endowment, Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, The Parker Foundation, Price Charities, San Diego County Bar Foundation, and WebMD Health Foundation. |
Philanthropic Headlines
U.S. News: "The New Generation of Philanthropists"
For a new generation of philanthropists, giving to charity isn't just about writing checks. Instead, the focus is on volunteering, socializing, and networking -- while also contributing to good causes. San Francisco Chronicle: "Club Members Who Give Half Their Money Away"
The so-called "50 percent league" is the brainchild of a national nonprofit organization called Bolder Giving, which has highlighted these givers since its inception in 2007 in the hope that others will take a closer look at how much they give and how much more they could afford to contribute. Note: Bolder Giving was in San Diego earlier this year and met with some SDG members!
The Atlantic: "The State of Charity"
Blog post about the evolution and future of philanthropy, based on a Barclays Wealth report on high net worth individuals.
Tactical Philanthropy: "High Performance vs. High Impact Nonprofits"
A high performance nonprofit is a very well run organization. It has outstanding leadership, clear goals, an ethic of monitoring performance and making adjustments as needed, and it is financially healthy. A high impact nonprofit is one whose efforts have been proven to cause sustainable, positive change.
|
|
Resources
New Report on Social Justice Grantmaking
The Strong Field Framework: A Guide and Toolkit for Funders and Nonprofits Committed to Large-Scale Impact
The James Irvine Foundation engaged the Bridgespan Group to develop a framework (pdf) for assessing the nature and needs of the fields in which nonprofits operate. This framework provides a guide for building more robust fields and can help foundations and nonprofits prioritize their investments.
IssueLab: Nonprofit Research Forum
IssueLab, an online publishing forum for nonprofit research, works to archive, distribute and promote the extensive and diverse body of work being produced by the third sector. |
|
Upcoming SDG Programs
Meet with other family foundation members as we discuss an NCFP teleconference featuring our own Tim McCarthy (McCarthy Family Foundation).
What's Really Going On: Roundtable Discussion with Nonprofit Leaders September 16, 2009, 8:30-10:30am
Location TBA
Moderated by Dr. Mary McDonald, Assistant Professor at USD in the Department of Leadership Studies.
2009 SDG Annual Conference
The Future of Philanthropy: Creating Silver Linings
October 29, 2009, 8:45am-5:30pm
Joe and Vi Jacobs Center, 404 Euclid Ave, San Diego 92114
Mark your calendars and register now for the premier local philanthropy event of the year!
Click here for a complete list of SDG programs and working group meetings. To RSVP, please call (619) 744-2180 or email programs@sdgrantmakers.org (include your full name and organizational affiliation with your response, please).
Reminder: SDG programs are open only to member grantmakers and nonmember grantmakers as invited. |
|
Other Events of Interest
September 22-24, 2009
Minneapolis, MN
| |
| This online SDGrantmakers Update is published by San Diego Grantmakers to help SDG members meet the challenges of philanthropy today. Our mission is to connect, educate, develop, and inspire a diverse group of foundations and corporations to stimulate effective philanthropy in the San Diego region. Copies of past editions are archived here.
Contact Nancy Jamison, 858/875.3333 or nancy@sdgrantmakers.org to suggest article ideas or submit news items. | |
|
|
|
|
