Report to Members
by Sara Gould and Sandra Mikush, Co-Chairs

Strong Families/ Strong Neighborhoods Conference

We hope you’ll join us in Miami at the end of September for our first-ever joint conference. NFG members have been working all year with folks at Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families (GCYF) to put together a challenging examination of the relationship between people and place. Regina McGraw, Executive Director of the Wieboldt Foundation, has put in many long hours with her GCYF counterpart, Maria Mojica of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, to build a program we believe will be stimulating and provocative. As you will notice in your conference brochure, the planners also kept their promise to leave plenty of free time for networking and sharing outside the formal conference.

 Local funders have put together eight site visits – ranging from a farmworker organizing and family center to a childcare center run by the Archdiocese of Miami in an elderly housing development primarily serving Hispanics. We think you’ll find one of interest to you. And, for the first time, you will be able to choose a more in-depth learning experience by attending what we’re calling an Institute. The two-day, 10-hour continuing discussion will focus on comprehensive community initiatives. It is limited to the first 30 people who register and will take place during workshop sessions. We’re interested in finding out what participants think of this format.

 Information on the conference, including registration, is available from the conference planners at 202-234-3880, or the complete program and registration information is available on line at www.nfg.org. We will also hold our annual meeting at the conference, where we will choose our leaders for the coming year. We hope you let us know of other funders whom you think would be interested in getting more involved in NFG.

NFG Website Expansion Continues

Our Membership Services committee continues to devise great ways to use the NFG website. We were skeptical about whether anyone would go on line to fill out the membership survey when the committee suggested it. Lo and behold, over 30 foundations returned their survey online. Now the committee has developed two other ideas: on September 15, we will inaugurate NFG Members on the Move and Professional Opportunities on the web site. See page 5 of this issue of NFG Reports for details about these online networking opportunities. We are also putting all NFG publications on our web site. As you know, the Jobs Toolbox is already up. Our first public policy paper, Financial Modernization and Low-Income People by Malcolm Bush of the Woodstock Institute, will be in the mail to you this month. It will also be available online.

We look forward to seeing you in Miami!

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