http://www.impact.upenn.edu//international-issues/feed Content from the International Issues Reports for the Center for High Impact Philanthropy en-us info@sp2.upenn.edu Copyright {gmt_date format="%Y"} {gmt_date format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q"} http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/follow_updates_on_twitter_impactsp21/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/follow_updates_on_twitter_impactsp21/#When:14:40:07Z We've put together a list of nonprofits mentioned in High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn: Focus on Housing, Health, and Hunger. You will find updates and real-time information in this feed from these organizations. You can follow this twitter list here: http://twitter.com/ImpactSP2/housing-health-hunger. new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'list', rpp: 30, interval: 30000, title: 'List of nonprofits', subject: 'High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn', width: 500, height: 600, theme: { shell: { background: '#b42a41', color: '#ffffff' }, tweets: { background: '#ffffff', color: '#444444', links: '#b740c2' } }, features: { scrollbar: true, loop: false, live: true, hashtags: true, timestamp: true, avatars: true, behavior: 'all' } }).render().setList('ImpactSP2', 'housing-health-hunger').start(); http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/donor_education_seminar_2010_lectures/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/donor_education_seminar_2010_lectures/#When:18:40:44Z Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Families     AUDIO LECTURES We are currently updating our audio files for this page. Please visit our podcast channel to listen to short lectures from Dennis Culhane, Bob Giloth, Mariana Chilton, Donald Schwarz, John Arnold, Peggy Hill, Warren Kantor, and Suzanne Boas. VIDEO LECTURE: Remembering John Arnold: Food Waste in America http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/donor_education_seminar_2010_materials/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/donor_education_seminar_2010_materials/#When:18:10:53Z Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Families       Seminar Evaluation Report Results and Lessons from the Center's Inaugural Donor Seminar: Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Families  Speaker Presentations Academic Panel Presentation: Mariana Chilton   Academic Panel Presentation: Dennis Culhane   Practitioner Panel Presentation: Suzanne Boas   Practitioner Panel Presentation: Peggy Hill   Practitioner Panel Handout: John Arnold How a Community Mobilizes and Employs Its Anti-Hunger Resources Is the Difference Between Adequately Addressing The Need, or Not Adequately Addressing It   Related Videos Watch the FOX29 live interview with our executive director, Katherina Roqueta, and Philabundance executive director, Bill Clark, as they discuss why donors should "can the food drive" based on the research of Feeding America's executive director, John Arnold. Pre-reading Educational Materials High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn: Focus on Housing, Health, and Hunger (A Guide for Donors)   Kids Count Indicator Brief: Reducing the Child Poverty Rate   Improving Access to Public Benefits: Helping Eligible Individuals and Families Get the Income Supports They Need   Witnesses to Hunger: Participation though photovoice to ensure the right to food   Poor childhood takes lifelong toll, study shows   Rearranging the Deck Chairs or Reallocating the Lifeboats? Homelessness Assistance and Its Alternatives   http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/donor_education_seminar_2010_agenda/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/donor_education_seminar_2010_agenda/#When:18:08:33Z Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Families     Download the Program Agenda and Bios   Sunday, November 7, 2010, 5:30pm - 9pm Welcome reception, dinner, dessert and Networking Introduction by Miriam Shark, Associate Director, Philanthropic Partnerships and Strengthening Rural Families, Annie E. Casey Foundation  Monday, November 8, 2010, 7:30am - 5:30pm Breakfast buffet Introduction by Richard Gelles, Dean, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania Opening keynote by The Honorable Cory Booker, Mayor, Newark, NJ and Q&A moderated by Jason Wingard, Vice Dean of the Aresty Institute of Executive Education, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Educational seminars featuring noted academic researchers, senior foundation officers, and leading practitioners on meeting the needs of vulnerable families in the areas of food, health, housing, and economic success. Panel Types Academic/Researcher Mariana Chilton, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Drexel University School of Public Health; Principal Investigator, Philadelphia GROW Project; Director, Witnesses to Hunger Dennis Culhane, Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania Facilitator: Nien-hê Hsieh, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and of Philosophy; Director of the Wharton Ethics Program; Faculty Coordinator, Wharton Social Impact and Responsibility; The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Funder Robert Giloth, Vice President, Center for Family Economic Success, Annie E. Casey Foundation Warren Kantor, Purpose Prize Fellow; Founder, Benefits Data Trust Donald F. Schwarz, Deputy Mayor of Health and Opportunity and Health Commissioner, City of Philadelphia Facilitator: Katherina Rosqueta, Executive Director, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania Practitioner John Arnold, Executive Director, Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank Suzanne Boas, President, CredAbility Peggy Hill, Chief Strategic Relations Officer, Nurse-Family Partnership Facilitator: Melinda Tuan, Consultant, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania Event Hosts Center for High Impact Philanthropy Annie E. Casey Foundation The Wharton School http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/follow_updates_on_twitter_impactsp2/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/follow_updates_on_twitter_impactsp2/#When:20:05:35Z We've put together a list of people, organizations, and other resources related to the Center for High Impact Philanthropy's Inaugural Donor Seminar, which took place on November 7-8, 2010. You will find updates and real-time information in this feed related to the participants of this event. You can follow this twitter list here: http://twitter.com/ImpactSP2/donor-education-2010. new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'list', rpp: 30, interval: 6000, title: 'List of organizations, people, and other resources', subject: 'Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Families: Center for High Impact Philanthropy's Inaugural Donor Education Seminar', width: 500, height: 600, theme: { shell: { background: '#b42a41', color: '#ffffff' }, tweets: { background: '#ffffff', color: '#444444', links: '#b42a41' } }, features: { scrollbar: true, loop: false, live: true, hashtags: true, timestamp: true, avatars: true, behavior: 'all' } }).render().setList('ImpactSP2', 'donor-education-2010').start(); http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/social_media/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/social_media/#When:19:44:46Z Welcome to our Social Media home page for the Economic Downturn. Here you will find social media resources for connecting to and learning about some of the organizations we mention in our investment guides, reports, as well as event partners. You can download all of our products for free by visiting our Investment Analysis page and creating a member account. The Center for High Impact Philanthropy can be found on various social networks, many of which you can find on our "FOLLOW US" page. Our Center also follows organizations that we have mentioned in our work, and social networks are a great way to keep up with news and events. Please check back as we continue to update these resources as more and more organizations develop a presence on the social web. Donor Education @ImpactSP2 Donor Education 2010 Twitter List: Our @ImpactSP2 twitter is the Center's main twitter account for updates, news, and conversations related to high impact philanthropy, nonprofits, and social impact. We've created a list of people, organizations, and other resources related to the Center for High Impact Philanthropy's Inaugural Donor Seminar, which took place on November 7-8, 2010. Blogs on Donor Education: You can read blogs related to donor education on our High Impact Philanthropy blog. All blogs that we’ve posted related to the seminar are tagged with 2010 Donor Education: http://blog.impact.upenn.edu/tag/2010-donor-education-seminar. Any future posts will be added to this tag list. Feel free to use this tag if you are blogging on wordpress as they will populate here: http://en.wordpress.com/tag/2010-donor-education-seminar/. Related blog: ZeroDivide: What Would YOU Do with a $100 Million Gift From the Founder of Facebook? The Economic Downturn: Focus on Housing, Health, and Hunger Blogs on the Economic Downturn: You can read blogs related to High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn: Focus on Housing, Health, and Hunger (A Guide for Donors) on our High Impact Philanthropy blog. Facebook Connections: Housing, Health, and Hunger Center for High Impact Philanthropy Annie E. Casey Foundation Wharton and Wharton Executive Education University of Pennsylvania and School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) Mayor Cory Booker Nurse-Family Partnership Feeding America West Michigan City of Philadelphia Drexel Public Health and Witnesses to Hunger CredAbility (formerly Consumer Credit Counseling Services) http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/CHIPSeminar2010_VulnerableFamilies/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/CHIPSeminar2010_VulnerableFamilies/#When:21:34:28Z Addressing the Needs of Vulnerable Families     About This donor education seminar is an invitation-only, purely educational effort to inform participants about the latest research, biggest ideas and best efforts underway in four key areas: 1) Access to food; 2) Housing; 3) Health; 4) Economic success for vulnerable families. On Sunday, November 7th and Monday, November 8th, 2010, we brought together experts in these four areas to highlight proven, high impact strategies that individuals can implement to achieve greater impact through their giving. We believe this seminar represents a new approach to donor education that provides information that people cannot get easily or anywhere else in a safe space for learning and sharing. The fact that there is no ask involved makes this donor education seminar a very rare opportunity for living donors to learn. View the program and speaker/presenter biographical information here. Facebook Connections and Twitter Conversations Follow the seminar highlights via the hashtag #DonorEdu10, as well as @impactsp2 and other twitter participants for ongoing updates from Monday, November 8, 2010. Center for High Impact Philanthropy @impactsp2 and @impactsp2walden Annie E. Casey Foundation @AnnieECaseyFndn, @aecfkidscount, @tomkaecf, and @juleenewberger Wharton and Wharton Executive Education @Whartonand @Wharton_Women University of Pennsylvania and School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) @UofPenn and @PRDiva91 Mayor Cory Booker @CoryBooker Nurse-Family Partnership @NFP_NurseFamily Feeding America West Michigan @FeedingWestMich City of Philadelphia @PhiladelphiaGov Drexel Public Health and Witnesses to Hunger @DrexelPubHealth and @HungryWitnesses CredAbility (formerly Consumer Credit Counseling Services) @CredAbility and John McCosh: @JmcCosh Purpose Prize: @PurposePrize http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/from_npr_the_good_and_the_bad_in_julys_foreclosure_report/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/from_npr_the_good_and_the_bad_in_julys_foreclosure_report/#When:20:45:27Z Read the full story on the NPR.org website: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129146629. Read an excerpt below: "The default notices, the scheduled auctions — those are at least decreasing on a year-over-year basis," says Celia Chen, who covers housing markets for Moody's Analytics. "That means we're working through the problem," Chen adds. "We're going to feel the pain for a little bit longer, but there is some light at the end of the tunnel." But others see things differently. "We need to be quite cautious in breathing a sigh of relief," says Marietta Rodriguez of NeighborWorks America, a housing counseling organization. She says unemployment continues to be a problem, pushing homeowners over the edge. And there's a new crop of loans that will reset in the next year — making the payments harder to handle. Read from Opportunity 1: Prevent Foreclosures about how philanthropy can help prevent foreclosures: http://www.impact.upenn.edu/images/uploads/UPenn_CHIP_DownturnOpp1_Nov09-PreventForeclosures.pdf   http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/benefits_data_trust_benephilly_guide_seniors_through_government_progra/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/benefits_data_trust_benephilly_guide_seniors_through_government_progra/#When:18:27:03Z Posted on Mon, Jul. 12, 2010 By Paul Jablow For The Inquirer Read the full article on the Philly.com website here: http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/98220519.html. Read about the Benefits Data Trust Model in Practice in High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn. The trust now has filled out more than 200,000 applications to help low- and moderate-income seniors enroll in state and federal aid programs including prescription assistance, Medicare, food stamps, and property tax relief. In Philadelphia alone, the nonprofit, which runs a program called BenePhilly, has completed 13,452 benefit applications for low-income city residents and helped them get $35.8 million in benefits. The trust, based in Center City near Logan Square, has grown to 40 employees and $3 million in annual revenues, and was cited in December as a model of "efficient and effective philanthropy" by Penn's Center for High Impact Philanthropy. Read the full article on the Philly.com website here: http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/98220519.html. Read about the Benefits Data Trust Model in Practice in High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn. http://www.impact.upenn.edu/ economic-downturn/reports/benephilly_initiative_receives_500000_in_usda_funding/ http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/reports/benephilly_initiative_receives_500000_in_usda_funding/#When:18:42:59Z BenePhilly INITIATIVE RECEIVES $500,000 IN USDA FUNDING BenePhilly Helps Eligible Seniors Apply For Federal and State Assistance Programs http://www.bdtrust.org/links/bphillyinitiativereceives$500000usdafunding.html Philadelphia, July 7, 2010 — Today, Mayor Michael A. Nutter and officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) received a $500,000, two year grant from the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service. These dollars will help fund BenePhilly, a joint initiative between the City and Commonwealth to enroll the thousands of low-income Philadelphians eligible for, but not receiving, valuable federal and state benefits. BenePhilly hopes to use these dollars to help seniors apply for SNAP, the federal food assistance program, as well as PACE and Medicare prescription drug programs, and Pennsylvania’s property tax and rent rebates. Since its inception, BenePhilly has assisted seniors in completing 13,500 benefit applications, worth more than $32 million in benefits. Read the full press release on the BD Trust website here: http://www.bdtrust.org/links/bphillyinitiativereceives$500000usdafunding.html