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Today, the role of philanthropy is expanding and so are its
responsibilities. Philanthropy Link is published by
San Diego Grantmakers to help you meet the challenge. Our
mission is to connect, inform, develop, and inspire a diverse
group of foundations and corporations to stimulate effective
philanthropy in the San Diego region. For more information,
visit www.SDGrantmakers.org.
San
Diego: the Frontier of the Future
San Diego Grantmakers Video Project
We are excited to announce a new tool available
to San Diego nonprofit organizations: our 2 minute 30 second
video introduction that highlights San Diego, our innovations,
resources and challenges, as well as nonprofit advances. This
video made its debut at the Council of Foundations 2005 Annual
Conference in San Diego and received rave reviews from attendees.
Individual organizations can utilize and customize the video
to describe their own important work and tell their stories.
We hope the video will help nonprofit organizations raise
both consciousness and funds. To view the entire 10- minute
video, please
click here.
Click
here for the application to apply for use of the video.
If you would like more information on obtaining a copy
of the video, contact Julie Holdaway at 619.744.2180 or julie@sdgrantmakers.org.
EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR Search
After five years as the San Diego Grantmakers
Executive Director, Julie Holdaway will be stepping down in
the fall and relocating to Orange County. Join the Board in
wishing her the best of luck in all of her future endeavors.
In the meantime, the Board of Directors is searching for a new
Executive Director. Click
here for the job description, and please share it with qualified
candidates.
Great
Grants
Market Creek Plaza:
Where the World Meets
Jacobs Family Foundation/The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood
Innovation
The Jacobs Family Foundation created the Jacobs
Center for Neighborhood Innovation (JCNI) in 1995 as a
way to take a hands-on approach to community partnering. In
1997, JCNI made its home in a network of under-invested neighborhoods
in the southeastern area of San Diego called the Diamond.
JCNI explores and implements new ways to partner for change
through long-term entrepreneurial projects and the creative
investment of resources. Its cornerstone project of this kind
is Market
Creek Plaza, which began in 1998 as an effort to redevelop
a 20-acre old factory site. Created through the work of neighborhood
teams, Market Creek Plaza is about building community, building
skills, building assets, and building ownership while residents
rebuild their neighborhoods. Market Creek Plaza was designed
and built and is owned and operated by residents, combining
social, economic, and physical development into a commercial
and cultural hub of the community.
One Market Creek store, Where the World Meets, has been so
successful that it is now expanding to include a Horton Plaza
site! The multicultural gift shop opened a kiosk at Horton
Plaza on May 15. This new location will reach both locals
and tourists who might never have otherwise heard about Market
Creek Plaza, and the incredible neighborhood revitalization
that it has spurred. For more information about this great
grant, click here to visit www.marketcreek.com.
Foundation
Giving Trends
in 2003
The Foundation Center
A new report from the New York-based Foundation Center, Foundation
Giving Trends: An Update on Funding Priorities, has announced
that overall giving by the largest private and community foundations
decreased 10 percent between 2002 and 2003. The decrease in
giving was perhaps due to grantmakers' adjustments to prior
losses. During this time, foundations continued to reduce
the volume and size of their largest grants, especially capital
grants. However, certain areas (such as voter education, disaster
preparedness, national security, and arms control) saw increases
in funding. The report also recognized that operating support
claimed a new record-high share of foundation giving.
Loren Renz, Vice President for Research at the Foundation
Center notes: "The impact of stock market losses
on giving by large foundations peaked in 2003. Yet, funders
maintained a consistent set of grantmaking priorities and
managed also to respond to several emerging issues."
In 2003, education and health continued to lead by shares
of total funding, and human services led by share of number
of grants. Looking at all major fields, the number of grants
awarded fell from previous years. In the international field,
foundation giving to non-U.S. recipients decreased nearly
four percent, while international giving remained steady at
$2.2 billion. Within the U.S., Northeastern foundations continued
to provide the largest share of grant dollars at $4.6 billion,
and also accounted for the biggest share of dollars received.
The Midwest provided $3.0 billion, the South gave $2.9 billion,
and the West provided $3.6 billion. U.S. foundations focused
on helping youth and the economically disadvantaged during
this year.
For a copy of this report on funding trend, or for more
information, please visit the Foundation
Center.
Upcoming
Programs
Commitment to Systemic Change: San
Diego Grantmakers Working Group on Homelessness
June 20, 2005
10:00am-12:00pm
Alliance Healthcare Foundation
9325 Sky Park Court, Suite 350, 92123
This meeting will feature a presentation by Dr. Sue Lindsay
from the San Diego State University Graduate School of Public
Health. We will also review working group accomplishments
and discuss next steps.
Common
Grant Application Launch
June 21, 2005
9:00am-11:00am
San Diego Natural History Museum, Discovery Room
1788 El Prado, San Diego, 92101
Join us for the launch of our newly-adopted Common Grant
Application. Foundations and their nonprofit partners are
welcome to come and learn about how this new application
will affect the grantmaking and grantseeking process in
San Diego.
The San Diego Common Grant Application was designed to
help make the grantseeking process simpler and more efficient
for nonprofits. The common grant application (CGA) has become
a standard concept and practice among grantmakers and regional
associations in the U.S. The CGA effectively streamlines
the grantseeking process by allowing nonprofits to create
one application that can be submitted to multiple funders.
Attendance is FREE but registration is required, as space
is limited.
RSVP to programs@SDGrantmakers.org.
GRANTMAKING 101
Grantmaking 101 is for the passionate, perplexed,
and recently arrived grantmaker. The series of workshops offers
a comprehensive review of the art and science of grantmaking,
and includes presentations by experienced grantmakers, experts,
and peer-to-peer discussions.
Light refreshments will be served at all sessions. Each event
is free for SDG members and $45 for nonmembers. Nonmembers
may also register for the full series at a discounted rate
of $110. RSVP to programs@SDGrantmakers.org.
Translating Passion to Practice
August 11, 2005
9:00am-12:00pm
4305 University Avenue, 6th Floor Conference Room
This first workshop covers topics on Translating Passion
to Practice: Principles and Practices, Reviewing Grant Proposals
and Conducting Site Visits, not to mention how to say "no."
In developing guidelines, your foundation must be clear
about its funding goals--how does a foundation incorporate
different directors' and staff ideas and remain focused
investors? Guidelines must also make sense to potential
nonprofit partners. We will walk through exercises designed
to align your passions with your foundation and to put them
on paper so they make sense.
The session will explore how to review grants effectively,
manage the barrage of requests, and learn from grantmaking
peers.
Between You and Your Board &
Not the Basic Grant:
Inventive Funding
September 1, 2005
9:00am-12:00pm
4305 University Avenue, 6th Floor Conference Room
The second workshop examines the decision-making process
from multiple perspectives, whether you sit on the board
or report to the board. We present different examples and
models and discuss the strategic interaction required for
organizational success. In addition, we hear from foundation
representatives who are using assets creatively. We’ll
discuss PRIs (program related investments), gifts to individuals,
loans to nonprofits, and other creative means to invest
in nonprofit partners. Hear from foundation trustees and
staff on how to make sense of it all.
Panelists include Ann Bossler, Price Charities, Ann Davies,
Parker Foundation, and Christina Wilson, Rancho Santa Fe
Foundation.
Numbers and Sense: Understanding
the Danger Signs and Success Stories Nonprofits' Financial
Statements Hold
November 9, 2005
9:00am-12:00pm
This popular session will help answer these questions and
more:
What are some important tips in reading financial statements?
How should grantmakers use financial statements to evaluate
grant applicants and determine fiscal accountability?
What are common problems and common solutions?
Our featured speaker will be Jeff Goepfert, CPA.
Behind the Walls: Inside Donovan
State Prison
August 18, 2005
8:30am-1:30pm
Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility
Join San Diego Grantmakers on a private tour of Donovan
State Prison. Experience the state prison from the inside.
See the walls, visit compounds, intake areas, and even the
industries (bakery and optical), followed by a lunch panel
Q&A with ex-offenders themselves from Second Chance’s
PREP (Prisoner Re-Entry Program).
As one funder noted: We work so hard to keep them out of
“ there.” What, in fact, is there?
Reserve your seat today! RSVP to programs@SDGrantmakers.org.
For security purposes, SDG needs identification no later
than August 1.
The River Runs Through It: Parks,
Wildlands, Kids and Philanthropy
September 10, 2005
9:00am-12:00pm
San Diego River Mouth/Mission Hills Regional Park
We invite you, your families, children and grandchildren
to join San Diego Grantmakers in touring the San Diego River.
This is a special opportunity to share your work and lessons
about our community with your families, involving youth
in philanthropy.
An integral component of San Diego’s diverse environment,
our parks, rivers, and wetlands were a neglected resource
recently reclaimed by 50+ neighborhood-based organizations,
businesses, citizens, all levels of government and nonprofits.
Learn why our parks, rivers, and wetlands are so critical
to our community’s well-being and how a countywide
collaboration is leading the nation in creating a regionally
connected system of open space preserves.
DISTINGUISHED
SPEAKER SERIES 2005:
Diana Aviv, President & CEO, Independent Sector
November 14, 2005
12:00pm-1:30pm
Diana Aviv is the president and CEO of INDEPENDENT SECTOR,
the national leadership forum for America's nonprofit organizations,
foundations, and corporations. Collectively representing
tens of thousands of charitable groups in every state across
the country, INDEPENDENT SECTOR's mission is to advance
the common good by leading, strengthening, and mobilizing
the independent sector.
INDEPENDENT SECTOR leads the nonprofit community by promoting
effective public policies to help not-for-profit initiative
thrive, identifying emerging trends facing the nonprofit
sector, strengthening nonprofit accountability, and providing
the "meeting ground" for leaders in philanthropy
to address challenges facing the sector.
Free for SDG Members, $40 for SDG invited guests.
RSVP to programs@SDGrantmakers.org.
For questions or comments about SDGrantmakers or our Philanthropy
Link, visit www.SDGrantmakers.org
or contact Julie Holdaway, 619/744.2180
Julie@SDGrantmakers.org.
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