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

Kudos to the many NFG members who made the Strong Families/Strong Neighborhoods conference in Miami a success! Regina McGraw of the Wieboldt Foundation devoted countless hours to make NFG’s collaboration with Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families possible. On behalf of the NFG Board of Directors, we thank Regina and all other NFG members who spoke, planned, and organized workshops and other activities, for all of their hard work.

There were many conference highlights for the over 425 grantmakers who came together in Miami at the end of September. In this issue we’ve tried to capture a few of those highlights – with photos and reports from workshops and a site visit. (In this year-end issue, we’re also including photos from the Council on Foundations meeting in New Orleans.)

NFG held its annual meeting while we were in Miami. Thanks to Jack Litzenberg of the C.S. Mott Foundation, Nancy Mills of the AFL-CIO’s Working for America Institute, and Lorenzo Harrison of the U.S. Department of Labor for their thoughtful and stimulating discussion about workforce development.

At the meeting, with deep gratitude, we thanked Sandra Mikush, Freeman McKindra, and Alvertha Penny for their many years of dedicated service to NFG. And we elected new board members. Elected to second terms were Mary Jo Mullan of the F.B. Heron Foundation (joining Sara Gould of the Ms. Foundation for Women as NFG co-chair), and Jim Richardson of Bank of America. New board members elected were: Bob Jaquay, of the George Gund Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; Linetta Gilbert of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Luz Vega-Marquis of the Community Technology Foundation of California, San Francisco, California.

At the NFG annual meeting, the board also approved an annual Leadership Awards program. We will provide information about this new member-recognition program and the nominating process in the next issue of NFG Reports.

On other matters, all NFG members should have received a copy of our new Public Policy Paper, Financial Modernization and Low-Income Communities in the mail. In January and February, two additional public policy papers – one on welfare. Find these documents, all back issues of NFG Reports, biographical information on board members, and NFG’s 2000 conference on Alleviating Poverty, and other NFG activities online at www.nfg.org.

Our very best wishes in the coming year.

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