Indego Africa Project, nonprofit giving Rwandan artisans access to global marketplace, received 2008 Skandalaris Award for Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation.
- Professional Area: Fundraising/giving
- Field of Interest: Arts/culture
- July 9, 2009Alliance for Nonprofit Management recognized over 12 individuals and organizations for leadership and commitment to improving nonprofit effectiveness and community well-being across nonprofit field.
- July 9, 2009Rick Cohen, director of membership and technology, National Council of Nonprofits, promoted to director of administration and operations.
- July 9, 2009Gary A. Tobin, founder and president, Institute for Jewish & Community Research, San Francisco, and expert on Jewish philanthropy, died July 6.
- July 8, 2009Worldwatch Institute launching two-year agriculture project, supported by $1.3 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on sub-Saharan Africa.
- July 8, 2009Patrick James, former senior vice president, consumer lending group, CITI, named, program director for New York, Nonprofit Finance Fund.
- July 8, 2009Sheela Mirmira, former manager, Women's Leadership Circle, AARP Foundation, named director for corporate partnerships and development, National Council on Aging.
- July 7, 2009Foundation Source launched Foundation Source Advisors subsidiary to provide advanced services to family foundation clients; named Page Snow, company's chief philanthropic officer, to additional post of president, Foundation Source Advisors.
- July 7, 2009Minneapolis Foundation named Mark Chronister, retired audit partner, Minneapolis office, PricewaterhouseCoopers, new board chair; appointed Jan Conlin, Robert Fullerton, Lowell Stortz and Jane Wyatt to board; and hired Jo-Anne Stately, former vice president of development, Indian Land Tenure Foundation, as director of grantmaking and special projects.
- July 7, 2009Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society: Projecting Institutional Logics Abroad, edited by David C. Hammack and Steven Heydemann, published by Indiana University Press.
- July 7, 2009Giving Circles: Philanthropy, Voluntary Association, and Democracy, by Angela M. Eikenberry, published by Indiana University Press.
- July 7, 2009Fred Davie, former president and CEO, Public/Private Ventures, named senior director, social justice and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender programs, Arcus Foundation, Kalamazoo, Mich.
- July 7, 2009Generation BIG ~ The Rising Tide of Dreams to Action, by Jeffrey Smith, published by Brand Artist Press.
- July 7, 2009How to Jump-start Your Sponsorship Strategy in Tough Times, by Gail Bower, published by Bower & Co. Consulting.
- July 6, 2009Farmers Insurance agents and employees on July 22 aim to raise over $2 million for March of Dimes research and education programs to help mothers have full-term pregnancies and healthy babies.
- July 6, 2009Nonprofit Governance: Law, Practices & Trends, by Bruce R. Hopkins and Virginia C. Gross, published by Wiley.