 Announced:
May 20: Advanced Financial Review - In this hands-on workshop, you'll review financials from sample grantees and learn how to spot trouble--a must-have skill in the current economy.
 Publication: Washington Grantmakers' Power of Collaboration series checks in with the Washington AIDS Partnership.
"Matchmaker, matchmaker..." - A Reminder for CEOs: Your survey responses are due this Thursday, April 23. The results will enable Washington Grantmakers to match members with resources to those with similar needs and to forge and support connections within our funding community.
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Family Foundations Staff Unite!
Alison McWilliams,
Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation
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Half of the foundations in the DC region have few or no staff, but that's no reason for us to work in isolation.
To break the solitude, a few colleagues and I started meeting informally for lunch several years ago to compare notes on shared grantees, foundation management issues, and other topics of mutual interest. The conversations have always been useful and invigorating, so we'd like to expand our small lunch bunch to other Washington Grantmakers family foundation staff and consultants.
We hope you will join us for a Family Foundation Staff and Consultant Brown Bag Lunch on April 28 at the Meyer Foundation's new digs for a facilitated discussion on the role of family foundation staff and consultants in leading trustees and helping our foundations respond during the current economic crisis. We hope to see you there!
Tip for Cutting Overhead - Gwenn Gebhard from The Luther I. Replogle Foundation is currently changing foundation management software from Foundation Source (which comes with very helpful back-office technical assistance but can easily cost the same as a staff person's salary) to Foundant (a newer software that is both user-friendly and affordable). By doing so, the foundation is cutting their technology costs considerably. For more information on foundation management software, click here. (Do you have any cost-cutting tips to share? Email Katy.)
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Thanks to all the foundations who have joined or renewed in 2009! Membership dues are now overdue. If you have not yet paid your 2009 dues, please do so as soon as possible. Here's the renewal application. As always, if you have any questions about your membership, please contact Katy Moore at
202.939.3436.
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- Executive Director - ACT for Alexandria (Alexandria, Va.)
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- April 28: Join other family foundation staff and consultants (non-family only, please) for the first quarterly luncheon of 2009!
Time: noon to 2pm
Location: Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, 1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 800
Click to
register
- April 30:
Sustainable Communities Working Group Quarterly Meeting -
Allen Hance, co-chair of the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network, will discuss top Bay-wide priorities and strategies for addressing them. Howard Ways from the District's Office of Planning will return to update the group on the outcome of the DC Green Collar Job Analysis Report.
Time: 10am to noon
Location: TBA
Click to
register
- May 12: Northern Virginia Funders: Quarterly Breakfast - How do you identify the needs of Northern Virginia and the organizations best serving those needs? Join your grantmaking colleagues for this interactive session as we explore new ways to share knowledge and strengthen N. Va.'s nonprofit sector.
Time: 8am to 10am
Location:Freddie Mac 8250 Jones Branch Drive
Click to
register
- May 13: Public Education Working Group Quarterly
Meeting - "Double the Numbers Campaign: Impact To Date & Opportunities" - Guests: Joe Scantlebury and Andrea Foggy Paxton, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation;
Herb Tillery, College Success Foundation; Renee Faulkner, Office of the State Superintendent. This meeting is co-sponsored by the Collaborative for Education Organizing of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region.
Time: 10am to noon
Location: TBA
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register
- May 14: Family Philanthropy Teleconference Family Boards: Why Can't We Just All Get Along? - Every family has occasional disagreements when they engage in grantmaking together. Get help for handling these dilemmas from Judy Healey, a leading family philanthropy consultant who has helped countless families bring harmony to their meetings.
Time: noon to 1pm
Location: in your telephone.
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register
- May 20: Advanced Financial Review: Reading Between the Lines of Nonprofit Financial Statements - "Is this nonprofit financially stable?" "Will a grant from our foundation further the organization's mission or simply keep the lights on for another month?"
Time: 8am to noon
Location: TBA
Click to
register
- See all scheduled WG
events in 2009 (.pdf)
[submit an
announcement]
- The Schimel Lode announces its new mission: encouraging innovation and collaboration in the DC area: www.TheSchimelLode.net. In addition to the yearly grant of $10,000-20.000, related free consultations on implementation, evaluation and promotion are likely.
- May 18, 10am: Shared Space and Services: Solutions for Long-term Sustainability: A Funders' Briefing - Learn about shared nonprofit workspace and operations as strategies to support the nonprofit sector in this economy.
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation is launching the 100Days/100Voices campaign to hear about what has been done to support kids and families in the first 100 days of the Obama Administration. Find out how you can participate. Together, we can make sure that the accomplishments made for children and families remain part of the national conversation and that these issues gain the attention of the policymakers and media who can help us make change.
- Heading to Atlanta for the COF annual meeting? The Campaign for Mission Investing (formerly known as the 2% Campaign) invites you to join your colleagues for a network reception on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia, Room M 106 & 107.
- Washington Grantmakers has a blog. That means you do, too. To post on
WG Daily, email Nick Geisinger, WG's communications director.
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