To see archived events from all the Foundation Center library/learning centers, including videos, audio recordings, transcripts, and webcasts, visit the Events Archive.
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Meet the Grantmakers: Focus on Young Foundations
San Francisco, CA
May 22, 2008
This edition of Meet the Grantmakers features grantmaking institutions that have been established within the last ten years. It includes information on how newly established foundations operate differently than more established ones, what informs change in new foundations, and how these foundations select the organizations they support.
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Meet the Grantmakers: Meeting the Health and Human Service Needs of Low-Income Communities
San Francisco, CA
April 24, 2008
In this edition of Meet the Grantmakers, a panel of local grantmakers discussed their organizations' giving priorities and guidelines as they pertain to addressing the health and human services needs of economically disadvantaged populations.
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Meet the Grantmakers: Focus on Organizational Effectiveness
San Francisco, CA
March 25, 2008
This panel, made up of local grantmakers who have been involved with Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) over the years, provides an overview of the items discussed at the GEO conference that may impact future grantseeking. These include how grantmakers think about and assess organizational effectiveness and ways in which they are working to strengthen the effectiveness of the organizations they support.
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Meet the Grantmakers: Let's Talk About Leadership
San Francisco, CA
September 18, 2007
This "Meet the Grantmakers" panel addresses how grantmakers assess the effectiveness of a potential grantee organization's leadership as well as how they can serve to inspire leadership within organizations by serving as catalysts to energize board members, donors, and volunteers.
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Meet the Grantmakers — Trends in Funding for Operating Support: The Grantmaker's Perspective
San Francisco, CA
June 28, 2007
Recently the University of San Francisco's Institute for Nonprofit Management issued a report, Practices and Policies of California Foundations in Supporting Grantees' General Operating Costs. This session features findings from the report provided by the author and commentary from a panel of Bay Area funders on trends and practices within their own institutions pertaining to unrestricted funding. Topics covered include: number of foundations providing general operating support, type of foundations most likely to provide general operating support, why foundations decide to provide unrestricted grants, and how nonprofits can position their requests for general operating support dollars.
The speakers were Carol Silverman, director of research, Institute on Nonprofit Management; Fatima Angeles, director of evaluation and organizational learning, the California Wellness Foundation; and Ron Rowell, program officer, social justice, the San Francisco Foundation. The talk was moderated by Janet Camarena, director, Foundation Center-San Francisco.
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Reality Grantmaking: Health and Human Services Special Edition
San Francisco, CA
May 22, 2007
You've experienced reality TV; now get ready for "Reality Grantmaking." At this session, which the Foundation Center cosponsored with Development Executives Roundtable and the Association of Fundraising Professionals—Golden Gate Chapter, participants witnessed the decision-making process as a panel of real grantmakers reviewed proposals submitted by health and human service organizations. Applicants were screened by the session moderators and nine finalists were selected. Watch as their proposals are reviewed and scored by real-world funders. The agency with the highest score won a cash grant at the end of the workshop.
The event was moderated by Cheryl Clarke and Susan Fox, fundraising consultants. The speakers were
Mary Gregory, program officer, Pacific Foundation Services;
Damon Scott, contributions manager-northern California region, Community Benefit, Kaiser Permanente;
Michele Williams, community development program fellow, San Francisco Foundation; and
Dianne Yamashiro-Omi, senior program officer, The California Endowment.
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Philanthropy Chat: Janet Camarena Interviews Bill Somerville of the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
San Francisco, CA
May 27, 2008
For this edition of Philanthropy Chat, Janet Camarena, director of the Foundation Center-San Francisco, interviewed Bill Somerville, founder and executive director of the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation.
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Philanthropy Chat: Janet Camarena Interviews Mary Gregory of Pacific Foundation Services
San Francisco, CA
May 15, 2008
For this edition of Philanthropy Chat, Janet Camarena, director of the Foundation Center-San Francisco, interviewed Mary Gregory, senior program officer for Pacific Foundation Services (PFS). PFS administers the giving for a dozen Bay Area family foundations. They discussed the giving priorities of the foundations PFS manages and trends in the family foundation field.
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Philanthropy Chat: Janet Camarena Interviews John McGuirk of the James Irvine Foundation and Bobbie Lippman of the Pew Charitable Trusts
San Francisco, CA
March 12, 2008
For this edition of Philanthropy Chat, Janet Camarena interviewed John McGuirk of the James Irvine Foundation and Bobbie Lippman of the Pew Charitable Trusts. They discussed the new California Cultural Data Project, its impact on grantseeking and reporting for California arts and culture organizations, and other benefits to having a centralized, online data management system for arts organizations.
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Philanthropy Chat: Janet Camarena Interviews Ron Rowell, Program Officer for Social Justice at the San Francisco Foundation
San Francisco, CA
February 20, 2008
For this edition of Philanthropy Chat Janet Camarena interviewed Ron Rowell, program officer for social justice at the San Francisco Foundation. They discussed the foundation's new online initiative and how that initiative supports the foundation's historic mission and future opportunities.
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Philanthropy Chat: Janet Camarena Interviews Frances Phillips of the Creative Work Fund and the Walter and Elise Haas Fund
San Francisco, CA
January 15, 2008
For this edition of Philanthropy Chat, Janet Camarena interviewed Frances Phillips, director of the Creative Work Fund and also senior program officer at the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, to discuss the Creative Work Fund's current grantmaking programs, how the Fund has recently expanded, and tips for artists and arts organization representatives who plan to approach the Creative Work Fund for support.
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Fundraising for Film and Media Projects
San Francisco, CA
October 24, 2007
This informative panel featured discussion of strategies and resources for financing your film, video, or media project. Learn how to attract grants and donations for your media endeavors. The panelists were Lynette Gryseels of the Film Arts Foundation,
Wendy Levy of the Bay Area Video Coalition, and
Tiffany Shlain of the Moxie Institute, moderated by Morrie Warshawski, author of Shaking the Money Tree: How to Get Grants and Donations for Films and Television.
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Philanthropy Chat: Janet Camarena Interviews Ralph Lewin of the California Council for the Humanities
San Francisco, CA
October 10, 2007
For this pilot edition of Philanthropy Chat, Ms. Camarena interviewed Ralph Lewin, associate executive director for the California Council for the Humanities, to discuss the Council's current grantmaking programs, how the Council is integrating new media technologies into its grantmaking, and tips for artists who plan to approach the Council for support.
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Meet the Grantmakers: Getting Your First Foundation Grants
San Francisco, CA
April 19, 2007
A program of our popular "Meet the Grantmakers" series focused on obtaining the initial foundation grant was held at the Foundation Center's San Francisco office. The panelists were Lyda Beardsley, executive director, Trio Foundation; Tiffany Price, education program fellow, San Francisco Foundation; and Karen Topakian, executive director, Agape Foundation.
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California Foundations: An Examination of Recent Trends and Future Prospects
San Francisco, CA
January 31, 2007
Learn about recent trends from Steven Lawrence, director of research at the Foundation Center and author of the recent report, California Foundations: An Update on the State's Grantmaking Community, and James M. Ferris, Director of The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy at the University of Southern California and author of the companion study, California Foundations 2004: Trends and Patterns.
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