 January 2013 |
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Catalyst Team
Ravi Shah
Program Associate
Lauren Kay
Communications Manager |
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From the Desk of Paul Vandeventer
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Teams from Georgia and New Mexico at the Empowerment Congress Leadership Institute.
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Caring Community: Pledge and Promise in Action
Just two weeks into 2013 and our pledge to caring community thrives. Three of our partnerships with grantmakers illustrate what I mean:
Building Clinic Capacity for Quality: People served by community clinics couldn't have better friends than the raft of talent assembled in service to BCCQ. Imagine fast appointments and shorter wait times for doctors.
To read the entire article, please click here.
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In the News
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Our own Bill Choi -- chair of the Community Partners board and a partner at Rodriguez, Horii, Choi and Cafferata -- is profiled in the aptly titled (from our perspective) Super Lawyers magazine. It's an excellent piece; read it here. |
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Project in the Spotlight
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Institute Receives Major Grant from Google
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Actress Geena Davis, founder, GDIGM.
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As one of seven organizations recently selected for the first round of the tech giant's Global Impact Awards, the Institute will receive $1.2 million to develop new software that analyzes how female characters are portrayed in children's media worldwide, speeding up a previously manual process.
"We think it is crucial to understand the influence the global film and media market has on women and girls around the world," said Madeline de Nonno, executive director for the project, adding that before this it took at least a year for each study. "This will enable us to do more research, more effectively and should lead to real-time research results."
From its extensive research, the Institute has amassed a wealth of information about gender portrayals in family entertainment, including the fact that males outnumber females 3 to 1 in family films -- a statistic that hasn't changed since 1946.
Founded in 2004 as a project of Community Partners, the Institute is working to transform how the entertainment community depicts children in its content, sensitize the industry on gender portrayals and reduce stereotyping in entertainment and media targeting children 11 and under.
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Welcome Our Newest Projects
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Human Rights Data Analysis Group 
Project Leader: Patrick Ball
Website: https://www.hrdag.org/
Uses statistical analysis to understand mass violence.
Latino Digital Archive Group
Project Leader: Richard Chabran
 Website: http://latinodigitalcontent.blogspot.com/
Engages the Latino community, community organizations, libraries, and digital archivists to foster a national dialogue that culminates in the creation of a national Latino digital archive.
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Upcoming Events
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2013 Nonprofit Conference Calendar
There's nothing like meeting with peers and experts in your field to gain a little steam and inspiration. We've pulled together a few nonprofit-related conferences happening in 2013 that might be of interest. Let us know if we've missed something worth sharing.
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Maternal Mental Health Policy Summit
Thursday, January 24
In collaboration with the California Mental Health Collaborative, the Los Angeles County Perinatal Mental Health Task Force, a project of Community Partners, will be hosting "Emerging Considerations in Maternal Mental Health," a day-long policy summit at the California Endowment.
The event will bring providers, experts, stakeholders, and others to the table to discuss important topics surrounding the health and care of women and babies. To register for the event, please click here. You can also contact Policy Coordinator Elizabeth Kaplan with any questions.
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From the Field
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2013 State of the Sector Survey
The Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) needs your input! NFF is conducting its fifth annual nationwide survey examining the current state of the nonprofit sector. Click here to take the survey.
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85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Mobile apps? Social Media? Video editing software? It's easy to be overwhelmed by the number of services and tools available on the web. Heather Mansfield, author of Social Media for Social Good, sorts it all out and offers a list of 85 low-cost or free web-based tools and services that may be useful for your nonprofit.
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About Community Partners
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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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1000 N Alameda St, Suite 240 Phone 213.346.3210 info@CommunityPartners.org
Los Angeles, CA 90012 Fax 213.808.1009
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