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September 1993 Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina 7 Facing challenges Conference explores role in building communify he nonprofit sector’s f role in bnilding and f renewing communities f is the theme of this ■ year’s annual meeting of Independent Sector, the trade group for U.S. nonprofits. The Washin^on, D.C.-based organization will hold its annual meeting October 17-19 in San Francisco under the banner, “Community: Visions and Chal lenges.” Staff and volunteers of organiza tions ranging from CathoUc Charities to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund will visit the Bay Area to discuss issues facing nonprofits. WHO: Independent Sector WHAT: Annual Meeting THEME: Community and Vision and Challenges WHERE: San Francisco WHEN: October 17-19 INFO: (202) 233-8100 Events will include; • An opening plenary in which Sandy Close, executive director of the Pacific News Service, will inter view a group of young people about their sense of community; • A town hall meeting on how media inquiries into fundraising scams and other abuses affect public confidence in nonprofits. Reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer, which published a series on nonprof its, will attend. • A session on Community Building Through Urban Initiatives that will look at how grantmaking organizations can help community redevelopment efforts; • A range of smaller group dis cussions on the independent sector and the economy, the future of work place giving, evaluating nonprofit employees and communications technologies. For information about the confer ence, call Independent Sector at (202) 223-8100. Equity Continued from page 4 a course for the future. N.C. Equity focuses on work and family, a legislative agenda and women of color. Funding now is being sought for a report on women of color in North Carolina that would be produced within the next year. This fall, N.C. Equity will issue a revised edition of its landmark 1991 report, “What is a Woman Worth?”. That report found that, despite hav ing entered the workforce in huge numbers, women in North Carolina still stand at the bottom in a “caste” system and have fewer chances for success than do men. Another N.C. Equity report due this fall will cover health issues for women. While women live longer than men, the report found, women are sicker than men over the course of their lifetime. And the organization is working to provide a clearinghouse for eco nomic information on women and families. It also plans to strengthen its public relations and fundraising. Charting the future Public-private partners to assess coastal management A Coastal Futures Committee will study the impact of two decades of a law to manage North Carolina’s coastal areas. The committee will recommend how to strengthen that regula tion. m m ext year will be the # 20th anniversary of the # \ # legislature’s # \# of a law to f V regulate growth and development and protect natural resources in North Carolina’s coastal areas. Gov. Jim Hunt has established a Coastal Futures Committee to evalu ate how well the state has managed its coast. The committee will begin ENVIRONMENT work this fail, with the goal of making recommendations on strengthening the state’s coastal regulation. Former U.S. Rep. Richardson Preyer will chair the committee. Staffing will be provided by the North Carolina Coastal Federation, the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the state Division of Coastal Management. Milton Heath of the Institute of Government will serve as the committee’s executive secre tary. Todd Miller, executive director of the Coastal Federation, says the coast faces two big challenges. The first is to ensure that, in those parts of the coast with a rapidly expanding population, waste and pollution are managed carefully to prevent damage to fragile ecosystems. The second challenge is to ensure that, in areas with declining populations but increasing development of natural resources, those resources are used in a “sustainable” fashion. “In the future, we’re going to need a strategy to manage our resources in our [natural] coastal areas, and a much different strategy for the urban izing areas of the coast,” Miller says. The General Assembly this year appropriated $50,000 for the study, wWch will cost $350,000. The rest wffl be raised privately. Todd Cohen e re going to need a strategy to man age our resources in our (natural) coastal areas, and a much different strategy for urbanizaing the coast. TODD MILLER Executive Director Coastal Federation Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh li Jj Kk LI Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tl Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz Kids will always have to take tests in school. But at CP&L, we don’t think that they should ever be tests of endurance. That’s why we’re doing all we can to keep the distractions of the out-of doors outdoors where they belong like the chilling winds of winter, the humid days of summer Were iMPROViNGTiiE [ CumateForLearning. and all the other conditions that keep kids too uncomfortable even to try to study. Our engineers help renovate older school buildings to create the kind of climate where kids can learn. Our suggestions help to upgrade heating and lighting systems, allow for air conditioning and generally reduce noise and other distractions. And these energy-efficient solutions often result in lowered utility costs. The way we see it, when we improve classrooms, we’re bound to improve classroom performance, which helps kids wahn up to the whole idea of learning. And when we’re able to help our students do that, we CNUL ^ WbcTs List€niTW G^twratcs can all look forward to a better climate in thk years to come. Powdfuudeas. I I A.'a-.. B, b. .-Jp.,c-.- D' d . E;;e-' .'F: f .gG: g. hf'H" J;}, Kk LI M, m N n O p O.q Q, r T t , ,U ,u^ , V .y ..,W wX_x', ._yy',.Z.,z.
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