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Message
from the Director
I'm happy to
report that the Institute has had a productive year. This newsletter
describes some of the work we have done. Our commitment to our mission is
stronger than ever, as is our dedication to supporting the nonprofit and
philanthropic sectors with useful, timely research. We maintain our three primary emphases:
research, education, and outreach, as we develop our plans for the coming
year.
The Institute continues
to document the presence, successes and challenges of California's nonprofit sector. Our nonprofit regional report series is
expanding with support from the James Irvine Foundation for reports on the
Inland Empire and the San
Joaquin Valley. We will soon begin work on a report on San Francisco's
nonprofit sector in collaboration with CompassPoint
Nonprofit Services, funded by a coalition of local funders. We've just completed our analysis of Marin County nonprofit data for a report
commissioned by the Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership of Marin.
The Institute is also assessing the capacity of the nonprofit health care
sector in several underserved communities of the Bay Area for the
California Endowment.
The Institute is dedicated to supporting
the College
of Professional Studies'
Master of Nonprofit Administration program. Our upcoming First Annual
Fall Gathering of USF Nonprofit Management Students, Alumni, and Faculty on
October 18th is an inaugural effort that we hope
will be a much anticipated yearly forum.
The Institute has
welcomed several new members to our Advisory Board in the past year: Mike Howe, former executive director of
the East Bay Community Foundation, now working on a project at the John W.
Gardner Center at Stanford University; Diane Johnson, president of Mmapeu Consulting; Paul Harder, president of Harder +
Company Community Research; Victor Rubin, vice president for research at PolicyLink, and Denise Gammal,
director of research and evaluation at United Way of the Bay Area. Their
expertise and good advice will be greatly appreciated as we move forward.
The Institute is also committed to playing
a leading role in the local nonprofit community. I had the pleasure of
serving as a judge for the Corporate Philanthropy Awards sponsored by the San Francisco Business Times last
July. The Institute was a sponsor of
the Agape Foundation's annual Peacemaker Awards, and we enjoyed attending
the awards ceremony to see the awards presented to very worthy recipients.
Also in September, the Commonwealth Club's INFORUM group presented its 21st
Century Visionary award to Aaron Hurst, founder of the Taproot Foundation,
and I acted as interviewer in a conversation with him after his
acceptance of the award.
Finally, In August, our colleague Kevin Rafter left the Institute for a job with
the James Irvine Foundation in San
Francisco.
Kevin did a wonderful job for us as Research Associate, bringing his
skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping as well as data
analysis and report writing. We wish
him well in his new endeavors.
There are many
more projects, programs, and partnerships in the works, and I look forward
to sharing those with you in future issues.
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First Annual Gathering of USF Nonprofit
Management Students, Alumni, and Faculty
Leadership
Crisis in the Nonprofit Sector?
Research, Observations, and Proposed
Solutions
October 18, 2007
● 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. ● Fromm Hall on the USF Campus
On October 18 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM, the Institute will
host the First Annual Fall Gathering
of USF Nonprofit Management Students, Alumni, and Faculty in Fromm Hall
on the USF Campus. The theme of this
year's event is Leadership Crisis in
the Nonprofit Sector? Research,
Observations, and Proposed Solutions.
What does the research say about future leadership in the
sector? What do we see in the MNA
classroom? How should the problem
(if there really is one) be solved?
Speakers will include Michael O'Neill, professor of nonprofit
management at USF; Jeanne Bell,
executive director of CompassPoint Nonprofit
Services, and Kathleen Fletcher,
director of the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management. A response panel with nonprofit
management alumni David LaPiana of LaPiana Associates and Marcia
Hodges of the YMCA of the East Bay,
along with current student Alison DeJung of AdminiTrust, will share impressions from their
experience in the field. We hope to
see you there! Visit the Institute's
website to download a flyer about the event. If you are unable to join us, a
downloadable audio recording of the presentations will be available
at www.usfca.edu/inom.
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California's
Nonprofit Landscape: Update on
Institute Research
The Inland
Empire and the San Joaquin
Valley
The James Irvine
Foundation has asked the Institute to prepare two regional nonprofit
reports to document the changing nonprofit presence in the Inland Empire
and the San Joaquin
Valley. Both regions
are facing dramatic growth, with expectations of even higher growth in the
future. With this influx of people, Irvine recognizes
that nonprofits will play an even greater role in providing the quality of
life and needed services that will make these regions thrive.
The Inland Empire
- San Bernardino and Riverside County - is one of the fastest growing areas
in the county - expected to add more people by 2020 than all save a
very few states. The region is also vast. San Bernardino is the largest county in
the country and the two counties combined cover 27,000 square miles. However the counties share many problems,
including infrastructure that cannot keep up with growth rates, high rates
of home foreclosure, workforce development needs, and extremely poor air
quality.
Nonprofits, as we
all know, contribute to the cultural and social welfare of the community.
But the nonprofit presence in the region is comparatively small, both in
number and in size. Perhaps more
importantly, the amount of philanthropic resources is limited when compared
to other populous regions of the state.
This report will document such issues with quantitative data and
will be further enhanced by focus group and case analyses being conducted
by the Center for Civil Society at UCLA.
The San Joaquin Valley
has many of the same challenges as the Inland Empire.
Parts of the Valley are experiencing high rates of growth. There is a large
poor population; indeed Fresno
has the largest concentration of poverty neighborhoods of any city in the
country. Again the nonprofit and philanthropic presence is limited, and
infrastructure organizations are lacking.
The Institute's
reports, due early next year, will combine statistical analysis of IRS Form
990 data, employment analysis, census data and information from key
informant interviews. These reports will show the strengths and challenges
of nonprofits in clear and readable formats including maps. It is our goal that both reports will be
useful for creating a shared basis of understanding for strategic planning
processes in both regions.
San Francisco
San Francisco is home to one of
the State's most well-established and diverse nonprofit sectors. Many of San Francisco's
nonprofits are models of innovation and have international reputations. But
how much do we really know about the sector? The Institute has gained the support of a
coalition of San Francisco foundations,
including the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr.
Fund, the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation,
and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund to profile San Francisco's dynamic nonprofit sector.
In addition to the
statistical reporting on the nonprofit sector, this report will be enhanced
by a survey of San Francisco
nonprofits which will allow us to ask nonprofits directly about
current issues they are facing. We
will also use the survey to learn more about the diversity of San Francisco
nonprofits by asking about the demographic composition of staff,
leadership, boards, and when appropriate, clients.
The Institute is
pleased to be partnering in this work with CompassPoint
Nonprofit Services. Both of us are committed to creating useable reports
and widely shared knowledge to strengthen the nonprofit sector.
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Institute Publications
Nonprofits and Technology:
Emerging Research for Useble Knowledge
Edited by Michael Cortes and Kevin Rafter
How can nonprofits make better use of
today's rapidly changing information and communications technology? What do
we know about the unique obstacles that nonprofits face with technology?
The Institute's new book presents research on strategies and challenges for
nonprofits investing in new technology.
2007 Paper, 212
pages, ISBN 978-1-933478-06-7, Price $32.95
http://lyceumbooks.com/NonprofitsAndTech.htm
Successful Technology Use in Small Grassroots Nonprofits
Examining what it means for a small nonprofit to use
technology successfully, this report identifies factors that help and hinder
small nonprofits' ability to incorporate technology as a basic part of
their operations and has implications for nonprofits, their funders, and technical assistance providers. This
report is being used by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) to foster a
discussion of what providers of technology assistance can do to reach small
nonprofits.
http://www.inom.org/research/INOM-Tech%20Use%20in%20Small%20NPs.pdf
General Operating Support: Research on Grantmaker Policies and Practices
This study shows that while foundations in California believe strongly in
supporting nonprofits with their general operating
expenses, questions about the effects of such grants remain.
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations used the
report to support their discussions on the topic, and foundation executives
asked for multiple copies to share with their boards of directors. The Institute made well-received
presentations at the Center for Effective Philanthropy conference, for
Northern and Southern California Grantmakers, San
Diego Grantmakers, and for the Foundation Center.
http://www.inom.org/research/General_Operating_Support.html
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USF MNA Alumni & Student News
The Institute wishes you every success in your nonprofit
career!
Congratulations Recent MNA
Graduates:
Andres R. Connell,
Cathi M. Connelly, Kristen A. Dambrowski,
Gillian Harris, Kathryn L. Lorenzen, Ziba Marashi, Laura E. Mason,
Wayne Roger Miller, Edward J. Schaub
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Current MNA
student Tish Campbell was hired in June as the
new Executive Director of the MMG Foundation, which is dedicated to
delivering art education programs and art-related events to the San
Francisco Bay Area community and beyond, especially to young school
children deprived of art education and appreciation because of dramatic
cutbacks in public school funding.
Andrés Connell, MNA, has been hired as Executive Director
at CollegeWorks, a nonprofit in Oakland that
increases four-year college enrollment rates for low-income, high achieving
students by providing research-based college counseling expertise that
serves the unique interests of each family.
LaNay Eastman, MNA, is the new Executive Director
of the San Francisco Adult Day Services Network. The Network supports adult day service
providers in San Francisco, Marin, and
throughout the Bay Area and Northern California.
Deb Grant, MNA, is now
Senior Director of Major Gifts for Boys & Girls Clubs of San
Francisco. The organization has nine
neighborhood clubhouses in San Francisco, a
summer learning academy, and a full-scale residential summer camp in Mendocino County.
David Hartman, MNA, has
recently accepted the position of President of the Northern California
Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. David was formerly vice-president of the
consulting firm Netzel Associates, Inc.
Paul Hamann, MNA, was recently appointed
President of The Night Ministry, a 32-year-old ecumenical organization in Chicago that provides outreach, healthcare, and
counseling services to those on Chicago's
nighttime streets and also runs three housing programs for runaway youth.
Pam Hogan, MNA, recently
published a book entitled From Prison
to Paycheck: What No One Ever Tells
You About Getting a Job. The
book provides individuals with the tools they need to gain lawful
employment after returning to their communities following incarceration.
Ruth Hotchkiss, MNA, is
currently working as Administrator for the First Congregational Church of
Redwood City. She recently pursued
elephant training with Six Flags Animal Kingdom Discovery Park and found
out there is an International Elephant Foundation to which she is applying
for fulltime development, research, and public relations positions.
Julia Love, MNA, serves as
leader of the Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council, which just received the
Corporate Volunteer Council of the Year award from the Points of Light
Foundation at their 2007 National Conference on Volunteering and Service.
Duffy Ross, MNA, just left
the Headlands Institute after 10 years and is now doing part-time
consulting. Recent accomplishments
at the Headlands Institute include completing the construction of a new
multicultural marine lab, which is unlike anything anywhere else.
Rosanna Santana, MNA, is now
living in Honolulu after living in Japan
for two years. She has been hired as
Director of Business Ventures for Child and Family Service, the largest
human services organization in the State of Hawaii.
She reports that every course she took in the MNA program is being
played out at Child and Family Service!
Joe Sehee, MNA, has founded a nonprofit
organization called the Green Burial Council to encourage environmentally
sustainable deathcare practices and to use the
burial process as a means of acquiring, restoring and stewarding natural
areas. He has received fellowships
from the Environment Leadership Program, the Property Economic
Research Center,
and Leadership Santa Fe.
Michelle Shutzer, MNA, is now Development Manager at Street Tech, a nonprofit
organization offering low cost computer training, certification, and job
placement assistance for deserving adults (ages 18 and up) from
disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Current MNA
student Michael Scott
was recently hired by The Nature Conservancy as Donor Relations Manager in TNC's California Philanthropy team, where he will
identify and cultivate major donor prospects in the San
Francisco, Peninsula, Silicon Valley and Central Coast
markets.
Send your news for the next issue to fletcher@usfca.edu.
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Thanks to our 2007 Funders
& Donors
The Institute greatly appreciates your support.
The James Irvine
Foundation
The California Endowment
Walter & Elise
Haas Fund
Evelyn &
Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
Richard &
Rhoda Goldman Fund
Keith Archuleta,
James Armstrong, Jeanne Bell,
Jeffrey Cook, Shannon Ellis, Robert Glavin, Kevin
Hickey, Marcia Hodges, Joni
Kaiser, Barb Larson, Carol Lossler, Thomas Martens, Margaret Mills, Ingrid Mittermaier, Joe Mixer, Michael O'Neill,
Kay Sprinkel Grace, Carol Stone, Jessica Vodak, Nancy Wiltsek,
Jacqueline Young, Hood & Strong, LLP, and Silk, Adler
& Colvin.
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