Funder's Forum: Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is dedicated to advancing the biomedical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and
educational activities.
The Foundation Center asked Dr. John E. Burris, the fund's president, about factors that have contributed to the fund's recent successes:
What are some of the best practices you have employed that have enabled the fund to meet its objectives?
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Social Justice Philanthropy Workshop in NYC on February 1
Wednesday, February 1, 8:45-11:00 am
Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
Please join your New York-area colleagues for an important conversation on funding challenges facing social justice organizations. Sara Gould — Atlantic Philanthropies Fellow at the Foundation Center and principal author of the Center's recent study, Diminishing Dollars for Social Justice Philanthropy — and Cricket Island Foundation Executive Director Elizabeth Sak will present findings from the study and lead a roundtable discussion about the implications for social justice philanthropy and the nonprofit sector as a whole. There is no charge to attend this event.
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Foundation Review Features Article by Lisa Philp on Education Collaboration Fund
This month's issue of The Foundation Review, published by Grand Valley State University's Johnson Center for Philanthropy, features an article by Lisa Philp, the Foundation Center's vice president for strategic philanthropy and director of GrantCraft. "The Education Collaboration Fund: Possibilities and Limitations of Pooled Funds" provides a detailed case study of a funder collaborative that supports a vetted group of the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) grantees. From idea to execution, it describes the possibilities and limitations of pooled funds as tools for increasing the impact of major donors and family foundations.
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Mott Senior Vice President Maureen H. Smyth to Retire
Maureen Smyth, senior vice president of programs and communications at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, has announced her intention to retire in late January 2012. She will be succeeded by Neal R. Hegarty, who will serve as vice president of programs. Ms. Smyth has served on the board of the Foundation Center since 2005; we are grateful for Ms. Smyth's leadership and wish her all the best in her future endeavors.
Read Mott's press release»
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In Memoriam: Margaret Mahoney
Margaret E. Mahoney, president of the Commonwealth Fund (1980-1995), passed away on December 22, 2011. Ms. Mahoney was the first woman to head a major U.S. philanthropic foundation and continued working beyond her retirement on issues important to her. The Foundation Center remembers warmly Ms. Mahoney's commitment to our work during her Commonwealth presidency.
Read the obituary»
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Foundation Center Welcomes Our 700th eGrant Reporter
On December 1, the Foundation Center welcomed the 700th participant in our eGrant Reporting Program, marking a 19 percent increase since January 1. Becoming an eGrant Reporter gives you the ability to quickly and easily share your grants data and equips you with interactive maps that showcase your grants activity. Several commercial software vendors use the Foundation Center's eGrant Reporting standards, making it even easier to create eGrant lists by generating this data automatically.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has embraced social media as a natural outgrowth of a strategic planning exercise in 2008. Steve Downs, RWJF's chief technology and information officer, shares what the foundation has learned so far from its experience as an active participant in "Web 2.0 philanthropy."
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5 Questions For...
Karen Brown, vice president of programs, Fairfield County Community Foundation, on effective management and capacity building amid economic turmoil.
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Newsmakers
Michael Edwards, author, Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World, on the limitations of the philanthrocapitalist worldview.
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Video
Patrick McCarthy, president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, discusses the foundation's latest KIDS COUNT Data Book, which reported, among other things, that the child poverty rate in the United States rose some 18 percent from 2000 to 2009 and that, in 2010, one out of every five kids in the U.S. was living in a household whose income was below the federal poverty level.
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