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August 1997 FOUNDATION BRIEFS sonwARE Gateses, Microsoft stock libraries Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, have formed the Gates Library Fbundation — a nonprofit organization that will part ner with U.S. and Canadian public libraries to bring com puters and dig ital information to the commu nities they serve. The couple’s $200 million personal gift to the foundation will be supplemented by a donation from Microsoft of softw^ with a retail value of $200 million. The foundation plans to provide approximately 17,000 public libraries in low-income communities with the computer hardware and software required for community access to the Bill Gates Internet, as well as provide support and training for public library person nel throu^out the U.S. and Canada Gates also donated more than $100 million of company stock to his private foundation in May PUBLIC POLICY Legal foundation sues IRS over records Landmark Legal Fbundation announced it is suing the Internal Revenue Service for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information that mi^t explain a rash of IRS audits of conservative and libertarian tax- exempt organizations. L^dmark President Mark R. Levin fiied the request in January. The Herndon, Va.-based foundation sou^t copies of all records “evincing requests since Jan.l, 1992 by individ uals and/or entities external to the PES] for audits or investigations of 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations.” The foundation said in a news release it has had to “jump throu^ unprecedented legal hoops in order to obtain the information.” Landmark sued the IRS in federal court in the District of Columbia in June. HOUSING Fannie Mae, NBA team up The Fhnnie Mae Fbundation has signed a multi-year partnership with the National Basketball Association to disseminate home-buying information during NBA telecasts. Tlunugh the “Home Team” part nership, the Fhnnie Mae Fbundation, which creates affordable housing opportunities for low- and middle- income families, will become a spon sor of NBA game broadcasts. The foundation will bring its offer of free home-buying information to the mil lions of renters who are NBA fans. In addition to its sponsorship of game telecasts on TNT and TBS, the foundation will provide free home buying information at special NBA fan events such as NBA Jam Session at All-Star Weekend. Greater focus on outcomes Education partnership aims to be catalyst The nonprofit group that sup ports Wake County schools is mov ing its focus from supporting com munity-based groups to targeting specific outcomes in the schools. By Todd Cohen Raleigh The Wake Education Partnership is shifting gears and plans to take a more active role in involving the com munity in helping to improve the coun ty’s public schools. The nonprofit, which has focused its attention on raising money and making grants to community-based organizations that support the Wake schools, now plans to focus instead on aiming to achieve specific outcomes. In particular, the group will direct its resources to raise awareness about and increase citizen participa tion in issues of teacher development and recruitment; technology, school finance; standards and accountability, and school-community partnerships. “The direction th^ is being adopt ed is to really unite our community behind shared goals for public educa tion,” says Tony Habit, who has been president of the partnership since March. “We are changing the whole structure.” Habit, who was executive director of the Durham Public Education Network tor eight years, says the part nership wili continue to raise money and award grants. This year’s annual campaign, to be announce this fall, is ejqjected to have a goal of more than $500,000. Last year’s campaign, which had a goal of $375,000, raised almost $463,000. In the fiscal year that began July 1, the rou^y half-a-dozen community groups that have received grants from the partnership in the past will receive their final grants from the partner ship, Habit says. The partnership also will make capacity-building grants to those groups to help them become more self-sufficient. As part of its new thrust, the part nership also will make grants directly to teachers, particularly to teachers who have ideas linked to improving student achievement. And the partnership also will begin a concerted effort to “engage the com munity as partners with its school sys tem in building the most effective sys tem possible,” Habit says. Call (919) 821-7609. Duke Continued from page 6 collaborative projects last year. The first project financed throng the fund was an internship program in which college students spend a sum mer workii^ for some of the endow ment’s grant recipients. The pro gram, now in its second year, received $30,000 this year and was the lone collaborative project funded in 1997. Meanwhile, endowment officials have continued to search for ideas to improve services for children. A series of meetings, including a two- day brainstorming retreat for board members and representatives of other major foundations in January 1996, has led to a proposal to increase the collaborative fimd by $3 million for 1998. Endowment leaders hope to use the money for projects that benefit children and families. Locke says the foundation plans to issue a request for proposals from a select group of about 20 major institutions. Those institutions could include hospitals, as well as the three universities and one college that the endowment funds: Duke, Johnson C. Smith and Furman universities and Davidson College. The request for proposals could go out as early as this fall. The endowment would make funding decisions next year, Locke says. In developing proposals, the laig- er institutions would he expected to forge coalitions with local groups, such as churches, schools and nei^- borhood associations. “Examples where we’ve seen this work is when communities have got ten together with schools, parents, teachers, neighborhood associations, etc.,” Locke says. “It’s that together ness, that unified front that seems to be effective.” Catawba Continued from page 6 ronmental crises. The program initially will keep watch over the most populated 66-mile stretch of the 225-mile river. The area fiom Lake Norman to Lake Wjlie, S.C., contains popular recreational and resi dential areas and huge industrial sites such as Duke Energy, Spring Industries and Hoechst Celanese. A1995 stucfy by the South Carolina Department of Natimal Resources found that approximately $2.1 million fiom tourism were spent annually in the Lake Wylie area alone. Meddenburg County’s population has grown from 270,000 in 1960 to 600,000 in 1996, a 120 percent increase. Whfe the Catawba River is in rela- tivety good condition, McLaurin says, growffi in the area has and will contin ue to take its toll on the environment and on water quality “When we b^an to look at the impact of growth on the river, it seemed to be the appropriate time to look at what we can do now—to stay ahead of the game," he says. “The river-wateh program that we hope to devdop seems to he the natural n^ step.” Call (704) 348-2705 or e-mail finclau- ri@diarweb.oom. WANTED Please send us photos of your key staff, board members ond donors. We'll run them in the Journal when we report news about your organizations. Please send your photos to: Photo archive Rhilanthropy Journal 5 West Hargett St., Suite 805 Raleigh, N.C. 27601 Philanthropy Journal of North Carolina • 7 Leadership training for educators Guilford schools get $10 million The Joseph M. Bryan Foundation gives its largest grant ever in a partnership with the nonprofit Center for Creative Leadership. By Leslie Waugh Greensboro Principals and teachers in Guilford County public schools will receive leadership training that nor mally caters to heads of Fortune 500 companies thanks to a $10 million partnership between the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater Greensboro and the Center for Creative Leadership, an international nonprofit based in Greensboro that trains business and government lead ers from around the world. The Bryan Fbundation provided a $4.9 million grant — its largest ever — and the Center for Creative Leadership will write off $5.1 million in tuition and fees to train principals of all 94 schools. The six-year initia tive was announced July 8. The center also will train 15-mem ber teams consisting of administra tors, teachers, parents and communi ty volunteers at 20 selected schools. The Biyan Fbundation will provide unrestricted grants of up to $10,000 to each of the 20 schools, and the major grant also will fund evaluation and research related to the project, to be conducted with faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The announcement comes on the heels of a $1 million gift the Bryan Foundation awarded in May to the Guilford County school system for training in the Paideia method, a form of instruction that stresses interac tive learning over traditional lectur ing. The foundation gives unsolicited grants to Greensboro-area organiza tions. Participants in the new training program will get feedback on their personal leadership styles and behav iors, and they will explore problem solving, conflict management, team building, goal setting and planning. The center will model training on its Leadership Development Program, ranked by TTie Wall Street Journal as the world’s most popular open-enrollment executive education program. “Participation in decision-making teams is an essential skill that teach ers, parents and school administra tors must perfect if site-based man agement is to reach its full potential,” says Jerry Weast, superintendent of Guilford County Schools, “and this new partnership will become a model for training school leaders through out the world.” THE NORTH CAROLINA PUNNED GIVING COUNCIL presents “Gift Acceptance Policies...” with T. Joseph McKay and “Legislative Up-dates...” with Jerry J. 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