2010 Annual Conference and Members' Meeting
Van Tours, Workshops and Dine-Arounds
November 3, 2010

Van Tours

Buses will leave from The Center for Healthy Communities and return for the afternoon reception.

Prosperity Drive: The Road to Economic Security for Women and Girls
This van tour will take participants to Junior Achievement's Finance Park, a hands-on learning environment where young students see, touch and live the experience of personal finance in a real-life setting of stores, shops and financial institutions. Following a tour of the park, participants will engage with local leaders who are strengthening economic security throughout women's lifespans.

Organizer:
Surina Khan
Vice President of Programs, Women's Foundation of California

Moderator:
Judy Patrick
President & CEO, Women's Foundation of California

Educating Youth in the Inner City
This van tour presents a unique opportunity to see firsthand the work of InnerCity Struggle, the only organization in East Los Angeles supporting and organizing youth and parents to influence educational policy. Their most recent accomplishment includes the building of the first high school in East L.A. in more than 85 years, Esteban E. Torres High School. Join us to visit this extraordinary new campus and learn about its innovative curriculum and success story.

Organizer:
Kristin Aldana-Taday
Associate Director, Special Events, Liberty Hill Foundation

Host organizer:
Maria Brenes
Executive Director, InnerCity Struggle

Youth Violence Prevention
Join us for an experiential tour and conversation about criminal justice, violence and youth development. Youth leaders and formerly incarcerated youth will share their experiences and guide us through their neighborhood, where we will grab cameras and use innovative tools that community members have used to successfully advocate for safer neighborhoods. Staff from LAPD and Los Angeles Probation Departments will also be joining the session.

Organizers:
Barbara Raymond
Director, Innovation, The California Endowment

Charles Fields
Program Manager, Los Angeles, The California Endowment

Tour led by members of the Community Coalition

Workshops

Evaluation as an Effective Grantmaking Tool
Participate in this interactive workshop that focuses on ways to plan, implement and effectively use evaluation results to inform better grantmaking practices.

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Presenters:
Paul Harder
President, Harder+Company Community Research
Paul Harder has more than thirty years experience in designing and conducting evaluations for public and private funders. Much of Harder’s work has focused on health and human services but has recently included the arts. The emphasis of his most current work has been in measuring nonprofit organizational change and policy development. Prior to founding Harder+Company in 1986, Harder worked with the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. 

Sonia Taddy-Sandino
Managing Vice President, Harder+Company Community Research
Sonia Taddy-Sandino currently oversees the Los Angeles office of Harder+Company Community Research. She directs both small and large-scale evaluation projects in the areas of organizational capacity building, workforce development, community health, early childhood development and policy and systems change. She has experience implementing participatory research projects in underserved communities and facilitating grantee "learning communities" and strategic planning.


Streamlining Grants Applications and Reporting
Join with other grantmakers to explore how to effectively reduce the burden on your organization--and on your grantees--by streamlining application and reporting processes.

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Presenter:
Jessica Bearman
Consultant, Project Streamline
Jessica Bearman works with philanthropic organizations, focusing on strategic planning, facilitation, and project research, design and management. As a consultant and in her prior role as deputy director of the New Ventures in Philanthropy initiative, she has written and spoken widely on the growth of new philanthropic giving and foundation effectiveness.  She is the author of Drowning in Paperwork, Distracted from Purpose, a study by Project Streamline on grantmakers’ application and reporting practices.


Personal Strategy Workshop
Develop a personal strategy framework with your peers to clarify your role as a grantmaker and improve outcomes with grantees.

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Presenter:
Jan Jaffe
Founder, GrantCraft
Jan Jaffe is the founder of GrantCraft – a project funded by the Ford Foundation to collect and share practical strategies for grantmakers. She served previously as Ford’s first organizational learning director, where she created orientation and professional development programs while leading organizational changes in its program division. Jaffe started in philanthropy as a program-related investment officer and earlier in her career she helped launch and run the first Urban Homestead Program.


Innovations in Philanthropy: What is the Future?
Participate in a discussion on how philanthropists can embrace innovation in a rapidly changing--and challenging--external environment.

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Presenter:
Gabriel Kasper
Consultant, Monitor Institute
Gabriel Kasper is a consultant at the Monitor Institute, a San Francisco, New York and Cambridge-based think tank and consultancy that focuses on philanthropy and social change. Before joining Monitor in 2004, he served as a program officer with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where he helped develop the foundation’s strategy for increasing the effectiveness of philanthropy as a field. Kasper is co-author of What's Next for Philanthropy: Acting Bigger and Adapting Better in a Networked World and has published numerous articles on such topics as social investing and foundation collaboration.



On November 3rd, conference participants will have the opportunity to join their colleagues for dinner at venues throughout downtown Los Angeles. Hosted by foundation leaders, some dine-arounds are open to all staff-levels and funder types, while others are focused on a particular theme or segment of the SCG membership. Please note, dine-arounds are generously hosted by member organizations and space is limited.

• Hosts: Fred Ali, President and Chief Executive Officer, Weingart Foundation and Wendy Garen, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
  (for CEOs and trustees)
  
  
• Host: Kafi Blumenfield, President and Chief Executive Officer, Liberty Hill Foundation (for grantmakers interested in social justice philanthropy)
  
  
• Hosts: Cathy Hession, President and Executive Director, The Carol and James Collins Foundation and Judy Belk, Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (for family foundations)
  
  
• Host: Alicia Procello Maddox, Director, Community Investment and Executive Director, Avery Dennison Foundation (for corporate grantmakers)
  
  
• Host: Sylia Obagi, Director of Operations, Annenberg Foundation (for those interested in learning about grantmakers as drivers of innovation and creative solutions)
  
  
• Hosts: Joseph M. Pon, Vice President for Programs, The James Irvine Foundation and Latonya Slack, Senior Program Officer, The James Irvine Foundation (open to all)
  
  
• Host: Dr. Robert Ross, President and Chief Executive Officer, The California Endowment (for grantmakers interested in place-based grantmaking)