Hear from Scholarship Manager Diane Higginbotham share the benefits of creating a scholarship fund at The Columbus Foundation.

Siemer Family Stability Initiative (FSI), developed to help reduce student mobility and increase academic success, FSI focuses on improving long-term housing and economic stability for families at-risk of homelessness. For more information visit www.columbusfoundation.org

Columbus Foundation donors and friends attended a holiday luncheon on December 10 featuring four Columbus, Ohio organizations named "No 1" in 2009.

» Hear the conversation among Central Ohio's respected leaders whose organizations ranked #1

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Jewish Community Center offers camp experience for youth with special needs

Each summer, a special group of campers descend on the Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus' (JCC) College Avenue campus, excited about the opportunity to enjoy days filled with activities from arts and crafts to music and swimming.

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» Listen to a podcast featuring Tim Kauffman, assistant executive director of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus, as he talks with the Foundation's Sidney Hargro about Camp Arye. (5 min)

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Photo courtesy of Camp Arye

The Columbus Foundation's Sidney Hargro sat down with Lucy Bernholz of Blueprint Research & Design, Inc. and Katya Andresen of Network for Good during the DonorEdge Community Leadership Conference, hosted by The Columbus Foundation, to discuss the changing landscape of philanthropy in a 2.0 world and how nonprofit organizations can effectively leverage social media to enage donors.

Listen to the podcast of this conversation, recorded at The Columbus Foundation on June 3, 2009. (18 min)

About our guests:

Lucy Bernholz, blogger at Philanthropy 2173 and author of Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution, is the founder and president of Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., a strategy consulting firm specializing in program research and design for philanthropic foundations. Read more about Lucy Bernholz.

Katya Andresen develops and executes Network for Good's marketing strategy, including consumer outreach, media relations, corporate partnerships, and nonprofit marketing, and is the author of Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes. Read more about Katya Andresen.


For more information on the DonorEdge Community Leadership Conference, please visit the Donor2.0 page on our website by going to www.donoredge2009.org.

Pictured above (l-r): Katya Andresen and Lucy Bernholz
Photo by: Jeremy Sony