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Minnesota Grantmaker News
and Notes
December 2007
Penny George, president, The George
family Foundation; Lee Roper-Batker, president, Women's
Foundation of Minnesota; Reatha Clark King; Sida Ly-Xiong, first
Reatha Clark King fellow; and Ellen Goldberg Luger, executive
director, General Mills Foundation |
The George Family Foundation has established the Reatha Clark King
Fellowship at the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota with a lead gift
of $150,000. The fellowship will provide renewable, two-year
fellowships to women of color in evaluation and research. The idea
for the fellowship came from mutual concern over the lack of women
of color in leadership positions in Minnesota. With a focus on
women’s equality and social justice, the Women’s Foundation and the
George Family Foundation built a strategy to foster such leadership. “This fellowship will prepare young women of color for leadership positions in philanthropy and nonprofits, creating a pipeline of future leaders to ensure that their unique cultural perspectives are included in top-level decision making,” said Lee Roper-Batker, president of the Women’s Foundation. Clark King’s leadership is marked by tremendous contributions to the Twin Cities community. After serving for 11 years as president of Metropolitan State University, she was president and executive director of General Mills Foundation from 1988-2002. Throughout her life, Clark King has remained a tireless promoter of opportunities for minorities and women in higher education.
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With the addition of $20 million, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is expanding its four-year commitment to $125 million to help build additional Habitat for Humanity houses nationwide. Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity will build 322 houses in 42 states in 2008. An additional 200 Thrivent Financial volunteer teams will travel to help build homes along the Gulf Coast and overseas next year. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans made the largest four-year financial commitment in Habitat for Humanity’s history with the $105 million original pledge in 2005. This was increased in response to the significant interest and involvement by thousands of Thrivent Financial members. In 2006 and 2007, the first two years of the alliance, more than 650 families in 46 states and Washington, D.C., achieved the dream of home ownership through Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity. On top of that, more than 130 teams traveled to U.S. locations and abroad to help build hundreds of additional Habitat homes.
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The Lutheran, Jewish and Catholic community foundations have come together to form Give With Faith, an historic faith-based collaboration that seeks to raise awareness regarding the importance of faith-based philanthropy and its impact on local communities. The three foundations recently launched a Twin Cities-wide joint media campaign to educate the local community on how they can help individuals and families pass on their faith and values to future generations through charitable giving. This is the first-of-its-kind joint effort among faith-based community foundations in the country. A common website, GiveWithFaith.org, introduces visitors to philanthropy and planned giving opportunities, and the three foundations are working on other collaborations as well.
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The Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation has been recognized as meeting the national Council on Foundations' national standards for community foundations. The standards program requires community foundations to document their policies for donor services, investments, grantmaking and administration. With over 200 community foundations already confirmed in compliance nationwide, the program is designed to provide quality assurance to donors, as well as to their legal and financial advisors.
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