Hear from Giving USA’s, Melissa Brown, who is responsible for researching and writing Giving USA 2010, the annual report of philanthropy. She took a break amid her presentations for this Columbus Foundation Take5 podcast.

Hear from the Foundation's Director of Planned Giving and General Counsel, Brad Britton, J.D., LL.M., share insights about how donors can support their causes and passions after their lifetime.

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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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

Programs encourage independence and job preparedness
 
Each of the women gathered in the weekly New Directions class has a unique story. A diverse mixture of race, age, education, and economics, these women have joined together for one goal-to learn the tools needed to begin or continue a career that will help them take care of themselves, and often the children that depend on them.
 
For more than 25 years, New Directions Career Center has offered workshops and programs targeting women entering or re-entering the workforce in central Ohio. Many of these women are in transition as a result of divorce, death of a spouse, or after leaving an abusive situation. As a nonprofit leader in career counseling...

Read more about New Directions in January issue of The Columbus Foundation e-News.

Also, listen to Linda Danter, executive director of New Directions Career Center, tell us how the Center is changing the lives of women in our community in our January podcast. (Length 5 min 10 sec)

To learn more about New Directions, visit PowerPhilanthropy at www.columbusfoundation.org.