 March 2014 |
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Catalyst Team
Ravi Shah
Senior Program Associate
Lauren Kay
Communications Manager |
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From the Desk of Paul Vandeventer
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A Hand on the Brow of a Humbled Giant
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The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely...
- Galway Kinnell, excerpt from his poem St. Francis and the Sow
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Pride, caution, humility, smarts and a quantum of civic commitment gather at a large conference table in a restored brick building above a popular coffee house at the corner of Woodward Avenue and Alexandrine Street in Detroit. Undaunted by the bracing February descent of the polar vortex outside, a dozen voices describe life at the fragile forefront of an iconic American urban future. A sense of opportunity tempered by realism permeates every person who enters Kresge Foundation's Detroit office, an outpost of the Troy, Michigan-based philanthropic behemoth. A Community Partners delegation listens, queries, leans in, listens more. Laura Trudeau, Kresge's Detroit program director, facilitates the conversation.
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Projects in the News
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Through WriteGirl, project leader Keren Taylor continues to inspire and empower legions of young at-risk women through writing and in so doing has been named a CNN Hero. Keren was selected from more than 10,000 individuals worldwide.
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Also using the arts to help young women find their voice is Las Fotos Project, nicely profiled recently on the KPCC program Take Two. Photos and story here.
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Los Angeles Magazine in its February issue profiles journalist Robert Scheer, founder of online news site TruthDig, and project leader for the Future of Journalism Foundation (FJF), a fiscally sponsored project here at Community Partners. Both efforts support in-depth journalism and develops mentoring opportunities for young journalists.
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"People coming to synagogues or churches now want to be in a relationship, not a contract. They want to be in a network, not an institution," says Shawn Landres, in a New York Times article about an experimental pop-up synagogue in New York. Landres heads up Jumpstart, a Jewish innovation lab that has a unique partnership with Community Partners.
|  | Patrick Ball, director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), warns that "data can have a profound impact on certain problems, but nonprofits are kidding themselves if they think the data techniques used by corporations can be applied wholesale to social problems." Ball, quoted for the article "Nonprofits Are Taking a Wide-Eyed Look at What Data Could Do" in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, is widely respected for his work with Community Partners-sponsored HRDAG, which applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.
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Welcome Our Newest Projects
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Green Camps Initiative
Project Leader: Danny Sudman
Email: danny@greencampsinitiative.org
The Green Camps Initiative (GCI) works with youth development camps and other outdoor education facilities to reduce their environmental impact and model environmental stewardship for campers and their surrounding communities.
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Lift Vets
Project Leader: Stan Kim
Email: stanonmars@aol.com
Lift Vets supports veterans' reintegration into civilian life through social, physical, and mental fitness programming.
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Save Lives Network
Project Leader: David Ross
Email: david@rossfg.com
Save Lives Network strengthens and supports the individuals, experts, professionals, and institutions who are part of the complex cardiovascular disease and stroke network in Los Angeles County in their effort to reduce the number of deaths or debilitating disabilities from these diseases.
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Talent Philanthropy
Project Leader: Rusty Stahl
Email: rustystahl@nyu.edu
Talent Philanthropy Project (TPP) aims to maximize the sustainability, health and performance of a multi-generational nonprofit workforce by dramatically increasing funder investments in nonprofit professionals and the talent systems that produce and sustain them. TPP also aims to improve nonprofit talent through networking, action research, change campaigns, and technology.
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From the Field
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2014 Compensation and Benefits Survey
Survey closes Friday, March 21 at 5 p.m.
Contribute your organization's data to this unique resource for all Southern California nonprofits. The compensation and benefits data can help organizations make strategic decisions and provide nonprofit boards with market driven criteria to remain in compliance with federal standards. Filling out the survey as a new participant? Begin here.
Filling out the survey as a past participant is easier than ever! Click here to login with your previous ID and password.
Questions? Contact Megan Vallone at cblead@cnmsocal.org.
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Top 4 Tips for Nonprofit Videos
A filmmaker with more than 30 years of professional experience offers four tips for getting the most out of your film projects to help you reach your fundraising and branding goals.
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Storytelling for Good
Your nonprofit story could be brought to life on new publishing platform Medium. Organizations are encouraged to pitch their story ideas by April 30. Ten will receive "top-notch" treatment, like this.
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About Us
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Community Partners works with social entrepreneurs, grantmakers and civic leaders to imagine possibilities, design solutions and see them through to results. Our work includes fiscal sponsorship, grantmaker partnerships, thought leadership and knowledge sharing.
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Los Angeles, CA 90012 | Phone 213.346.3210
Fax 213.808.1009 | info@CommunityPartners.org |
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