PHILANTHROPY AND COMMUNITY
CHANGE
Substance Use Disorder and HIV/AIDS in Latinos
Linking Research with the Community
Henrie M. Treadwell, Ph.D.
Director: Community Voices and Men’s Health Initiative
Research Professor: Community Health and Preventative Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
C-SALUD BI-ANNUAL Conference 2011
Miami, FL.
April 26th
The Language of Philanthropy
 Research versus Evaluation
 Research versus Community-Based Participatory
Research
 Formative, Summative, Qualitative, Summative
 Benchmarks as evaluation metric
Goals of the Independent Sector
 Shape Public Policy
 Increase Effectiveness
 Strengthen Accountability
 Build Connections
 Understand the Sector
 www.INDEPENDENTSECTOR.org
Major National Philanthropies…
 W.K. Kellogg Foundation (www.wkkf.org)
 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (www.rwjf.org)
 Kresge Foundation (www.kresge.org)
 California Endowment (www.calendow.org)
 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
(www.knightfoundation.org)
 Ford Foundation (www.fordfound.org)
 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (www.mott.org)
 MacArthur Foundation (www.macfound.org)
Florida Foundations: Top Giving
 See GrantDomain – The Grantsmanship Center’s
exclusive online database. http://www.tgci.com
 Also:
http://tgci.com/funding/top.asp?statename=Florida&
statecode=FL
 Also: http://www.floridafunding.com
Philosophical or Ideological
Perspectives
 Liberal
 Progressive
 Centrist
 Ideological
 Conservative
 Does it matter? How does one take the ‘measure’ of the
philanthropic organization to determine a philosophical and
programmatic fit?
Top Giving Florida Organizations
Foundation NAME
TOTAL ANNUAL GIVING
 KNIGHT FOUNDATION $121,201,077
 Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation $37,684,147
 Publix Super Market Charities $32,172,727
 The Community Foundation in Jacksonville $23,530,192
Top Giving - Continued
 The Picower Foundation $23,424,401
 Walter H. Coulter Foundation $23,408,313.
 Ted Arison Foundation USA, Inc. $17,145,685
 Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, Inc. $13,677,534
 Jesse Ball DuPont Fund $13,327,443
 Koch Foundation $9,383,201
 The Quantum Foundation, Inc. $8,415,640
Top Giving in Florida- continued
 Huizenga Family Foundation, Inc. $7,627,245
 The Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Inc - $7,
595,922
 Theodore R. and Vivian M. Johnson Scholarship
Foundation, Inc. - $7. 359,145
 Dade Community Foundation - $7, 245, 280
 Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin
Counties, Inc. $6,851, 903
Top Giving in Florida - continued
 Community Foundation of Greater Lakeland - $5,773,
281
 Community Foundation of Broward - $ $5,254, 794
 Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation - $5, 196, 106
 Scaife Family Foundation - $5, 042, 429
 Forest C and Frances H. Lattner Foundation - $4, 622,
197
Top Giving in Florida - continued
 Whitehall Foundation, Inc. $4, 811, 667
 William G. Selby and Marie Selby Foundation - $4, 622,
197
 George B. Storer Foundation, Inc. - $4, 590,000
 Multiple Sclerosis Foundation - $4, 560, 447
 William H. Pitt Foundation, Inc. - $4, 539, 779
 The Lattner Family Foundation - $4, 514, 000
Top Giving in Florida - continued
 The Council for Education Change - $4, 395, 648
 The Lucy Gooding Charitable Foundation Trust
- $ 4, 112, 345
 The Engelberg Foundation - $4, 001, 590
 The Southwest Florida Community Foundation, Inc.
- $ 3, 889, 625
 The William J. von Liebig Foundation - $ 3, 858, 161
Top Giving in Florida - continued
 The George and Mary Kremer Foundation - $3, 207, 515
 Community Foundation of Central Florida - $ 3, 176, 521
 The Believers Foundation, Inc. - $3, 121, 281
 Harcourt M. And Virginia W. Sylvester Foundation, Inc. $3, 113, 500
 McKnight Brain Research Foundation - $2, 875, 000
Top Giving in Florida - continued
 SWS Charitable Foundation, Inc. - $ 2, 873, 431
 Aurora Foundation - $2, 809, 197
 The Chatios Foundation, Inc. - $2, 780, 394
 AND this is only the top 40.
What makes you SPECIAL???
 What is it about your organization that makes you
unique and able to uniquely contribute?
 What is it about the population that you serve that
makes this a defining issue for this generation or this
time in this nation?
 Why are you the ‘best organization’ to make a
difference?
 Who are your friends and collaborators?
Does anybody care what you think or
about what you might learn?
 What is the POLICY issue that you seek to inform?
 What should the new policy be?
 Who will you tell?
 Who do you know who is a key informant to
policymaking?
 EVIDENCE of your ability to inform policy? If no
evidence, what steps will you use in the future?
Evidence based information to show
change and significance?
 Benchmarks of success
 Benchmarks to show significance
 SO…you enrolled people in HIV/AIDS care. But did
you get them mental health counselling?
 Is substance use disorder a part of the problem in
the community? Why does this matter?
Criminal Justice System and Your
Community of Change
Is incarceration an issue for the population you seek
to serve?
If so, how much does the criminal justice system
drain away from more positive programs?
How will your program help to show how to redirect
funds flow?
Are those in the criminal justice system a part of
your collaborative? Any other unusual suspects?
YOUR STORY OF CHANGE
 Can you tell the story in a very few pages without
appendices?
 Can you find ‘friends’ to whom you can tell your
story and who will give you honest feedback that
you will accept, if valid?
 Have you told your local community newspapers
and do they tell your story?
The Written Word - Proposal
 Goal ( to include POLICY change)
 Objective (who, what, why)
 Innovation (Significance of this new approach)
 Methodology – Intervention Plan
 Evaluation Plan
 Policy Impact (public and marketplace policy)
Networking, Networking, Networking
 Who do you know to help you open doors?
 If you do not know anybody, how will you set about
meeting new people who can buy into your dreams?
 How will you build your collaborative to include new
friends including those that may not totally agree
with EVERYTHING that you think and believe.
Sustainbility
 Can you tell the prospective funder how you will
sustain your work if it is funded? (NOBODY stays
with you forever so what is your plan.)
 Does your sustainability plan include redirection of
funds flow through policy change/practice change?
 If you are not around to do the work, what will be the
impact on community?
Novel Resources
 What will the community learn about as
resources as a result of your work?
 What new and permanent resources will you
leave in the community as a part of your
work and how will it be sustained?
Community Voices
 Kellogg Foundation support for many years.
 Policy Briefs, Fact Sheets, Books
 Web Sites
 Many, many friends and supporters
BOOKS, POLICY BRIEFS, ETC…
BOOKS, POLICY BRIEFS, ETC…
BOOKS, POLICY BRIEFS, ETC…
BOOKS, POLICY BRIEFS, ETC…
www.reentryga.org
Community Voices Resources
www.communityvoices.org
www.georgiareentry.org
Childhood obesity – ‘ImagineME!’
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