Connections
Every week Connections presents fresh links to the best the Web has to offer on issues related to the changing world of philanthropy. Subscribe to our biweekly Connections newsletter and receive two weeks' worth of links delivered to you by e-mail. If you have an item you'd like to share, drop us a line at connections@foundationcenter.org.
July 18, 2001
From Access to Outcomes: Raising the Aspirations for Technology Initiatives in Low-Income Communities (24 pages, HTML and PDF), a new report from the Reston, Virginia-based Morino Institute, starts from the premise that technology is not an end in itself and proceeds to examine ways that technology can be applied to achieve tangible and...
July 17, 2001
The Aspen Institute's Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination (FIELD) has been named the winner of this year's Clarion Award in the Online Media/Nonprofit category by the Association for Women in Communications. The FIELD Web site, which also received an "Award of Distinction" from the Communicator Awards in...
July 13, 2001
The transformation of the U.S. economy over the last decade by emerging communication technologies has been dramatic, unpredictable, and inconsistent. While the financial services sector has been turbocharged by the Internet and online trading, for example, the delivery of health care services has remained largely unaffected by innovations in IT....
July 11, 2001
The California-based James Irvine Foundation has launched the Irvine Quarterly, an online publication designed "to provide useful information on important issues, lessons, and research emerging from the work of Irvine grantees and other California nonprofits." The current issue includes a scan and discussion of the state's future called "Which...
July 11, 2001
The Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has put together a useful HIV/AIDS issue page that includes recent news items, links to online resources, and a short but terribly affecting Web-based slideshow titled "AIDS: A Preventable Tragedy." While you're at the site, be sure to browse the two other slideshows there: "TB: Breaking the...
July 10, 2001
Partnerships between nonprofit organizations and corporations have become a regular feature of the economic landscape. To ensure that these partnerships are effective and mission-driven, and to expand the resources available to causes in a way that increases corporate community involvement and public trust in the nonprofit sector as a whole,...
July 9, 2001
The Infrastructure Work Group of the New York Health and Human Services HIV Planning Council and Bailey House, the second-oldest AIDS organization in New York City, have launched a Technical Assistance Clearinghouse for New York City- and other community-based HIV/AIDS organizations. The purpose of the site is to help CBOs learn more about the...
July 2, 2001
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has released a comparison of key proposals under consideration to improve drug coverage. Prepared for the foundation by Beth Fuchs and Julie James of Health Policy Alternatives, Prescription Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Selected Proposals (35 pages, PDF) provides a...
June 25, 2001
In today's rapidly changing world, there's considerable concern that community-based nonprofit entities lack the capacity and technical expertise to keep up with change and thereby contribute to an enriched and healthy quality of life. So write Carol J. De Vita, Cory Fleming, and Eric C. Twombly in "Building Nonprofit Capacity: A Framework for...
June 21, 2001
The Economic and Social Research Institute, a D.C.-based nonprofit, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has released Covering America: Real Remedies for the Uninsured (217 pages, PDF), a compilation of ten comprehensive health coverage proposals that seek "to move the country toward a solution to the problem of the uninsured."...
June 20, 2001
The Benton Foundation has redesigned its highly regarded Best Practices Toolkit. The new site includes a wealth of information about current trends and practices in nonprofit use of digital media organized into half a dozen categories: "Think It Through" (design, cost of, and planning for an effective communications technology strategy), "Put It...
June 20, 2001
The Little Hoover Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy, an independent, bipartisan body created in 1962 to promote efficiency and effectiveness in state programs, has released the complete version of Never Too Early, Never Too Late — To Prevent Youth Crime & Violence (112 pages, PDF), its comprehensive report...
June 18, 2001
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, a leading funder of community foundations, has released Sowing the Seeds of Local Philanthropy: Two Decades in the Field of Community Foundations (72 pages, HTML and PDF), a retrospective look at its experiences in the field of community philanthropy. In addition to summarizing the foundation's own work and...
June 14, 2001
Grantmakers in the Arts has published Learning and the Arts: Crossing Boundaries (34 pages, PDF), the proceedings of a meeting held in Los Angeles in January 2000. Organized by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the meeting brought together researchers, practitioners,...
