Publications & Services

Foundations, corporations and other institutional donors committed over $490 million to relief and recovery efforts in the first few months following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to Snapshot of Philanthropy’s Response to the Gulf Coast Hurricanes, a new report from the Foundation Center. This support represented 17 percent of an estimated $3 billion in private hurricane response giving.
http://fdncenter.org/gainknowledge/research/pdf/katrina_snap.pdf

A new report from PolicyLink, Shared Prosperity, Stronger Regions: An Agenda for Rebuilding America’s Older Core Cities, demonstrates that older core cities can become economically competitive places, where all residents can participate and prosper. The report looks closely at Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and examines how innovative economic development, land use, transportation, neighborhood revitalization and housing policies are bringing about significant economic and social revitalization. www.policylink.org/pdfs/CoreCities.pdf

A new report from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Collaborative Governance: A Guide for Grantmakers, focuses on collaborative governance and provides an emerging set of concepts and practices that offer prescriptions for inclusive, deliberative and often consensus-oriented approaches to planning, problem solving and policymaking. www.hewlett.org/Publications/collaborativegovernance.htm

The James Irvine Foundation launched a new evaluation section on its Web site that includes an overview of how Irvine assesses its progress toward its institutional goals and priorities, as well as tools and resources that help promote the effective use of evaluative techniques by nonprofits and other foundations. The new resource will serve as a key vehicle for sharing what the foundation has learned from its work. www.irvine.org

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority released 2005 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count after it spent a year gathering and analyzing data in Los Angeles County. A comprehensive report on the city’s homeless population, it is the most detailed analysis ever conducted on the homeless population in Los Angeles. It includes a breakdown of the homeless population by city council districts and regions of the county, a general profile of homelessness and numerous other insights about a population that has remained largely invisible. www.lahsa.org/notices.htm

Corporation for Supportive Housing has released a new publication, Home Works: Solving Family Homelessness through Permanent Supportive Housing. The report, written by Kate Durham, draws upon the lessons learned from many family supportive housing projects in and around San Francisco, Chicago and Minneapolis. Designed primarily for service providers, housing developers and managers, as well as public and private funders, Home Works offers practical guidance for the development and operation of family supportive housing. www.csh.org/publications

AWARDS

The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association announces a call for entries for the second annual J. Timothy Anderson Awards for Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation. The awards honor outstanding rehabilitation and preservation projects based on overall design and quality, interpretation and respect of historic elements, impact on the community and financial and market success. Categories include: Affordable Housing, Market-Rate, Mixed-Income, Adaptive Re-Use and/or Commercial Rehabilitation and Scattered Site/Multi-Property. NH&RA created the “Timmy Awards” as a tribute to Boston architect and preservation advocate J. Timothy Anderson. Deadline: July 15. Contact Debby Tempio, 202-939-1778, dtempio@dworbell.com. www.housingonline.com