Events

Sue Hoechstetter, senior advisor for foundation advocacy and evaluation at the Alliance for Justice, will be in Cleveland May 16 and 17 to meet with local funders and nonprofits interested in funding and engaging in advocacy work.

Hochstetter, one of the nation’s leading experts in advocacy capacity-building and advocacy evaluation, will present a free “how-to” workshop May 16 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Cleveland Foodbank Community Room, 15500 South Waterloo Road. She will be available, by reservation, for free half-hour consultations with individual organizations May 17 from 9 a.m. to noon at The George Gund Foundation, 45 W. Prospect Avenue.

Reservations for the seminar or for individual consultations should be made by contacting Joyce Hancock at 216-241-3114 or RSVP@gundfdn.org.

Ohio Votes will provide free nonprofit voter engagement training September 11 at Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland.

The training session, which will be from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., will include an update on voting rules in Ohio, information about guidelines for nonpartisan involvement in voter engagement activities by nonprofit organizations and voter engagement resource materials.

The event is being presented by the Foundation in partnership with the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, Neighborhood Leadership Institute, Ohio Association of Food Banks, Ohio Association of Community Health Centers and Public Children’s Services Association of Ohio.

Registration is available at www.nonprofitvote.org/voter-engagement-training-cleveland.htm.

Representatives from four Northeast Ohio foundations have organized a continuing legal education seminar, “Representing and Managing Ohio Foundations—2011,” to be held December 6 at The George Gund Foundation in downtown Cleveland.

The program, which features speakers from the Gund, Burton D. Morgan and GAR Foundations and the Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust, begins at 8 a.m. and ends at noon. The session has been approved by the Ohio Supreme Court for three hours of general education credit.

Participants should contact Kim Whitsett at (216) 241–3114 or kWhitsett@GundFdn.org by November 15 to register.

The George Gund Foundation is encouraging nonprofit organizations to attend a Census Rally March 8 and become involved in the 2010 census.

Census materials, as well as information on mini-grant opportunities, will be available at the Census Rally from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Cleveland Foodbank, 15500 South Waterloo Road in Cleveland.

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown will talk about the impact of the census on federal funds, political representation and infrastructure investment. It is estimated that for every 100 people not counted during the census, Greater Cleveland will lose $1.2 million over the next decade in federally-funded programs such as Head Start, transit, public housing and community development block grants.

The free event is open to all nonprofits, regardless of size or type of programming.

Additional information on the census and the role nonprofits can play is available at:

What’s Happening in Cleveland’s Neighborhoods?

Download a Free Census Toolkit for your Organization

Countdown to the Census: “Effective Messaging and Mobilization Strategies for Nonprofits”

“What’s on Your Plate?” at Cleveland Film Festival

“What’s On Your Plate?,“ a documentary about kids and food politics produced and directed by George Gund Foundation Trustee Catherine Gund, will be shown at the Cleveland International Film Festival March 27 and 28. 

The film follows two eleven-year-old multi-racial city kids over the course of a year as they explore their place in the food chain in a quest to understand what is on all of our plates. It will be screened at 11:45 a.m. on March 27 and 2 p.m. on March 28. 

Additional information is available at http://www.clevelandfilm.org/festival/films/2010/whats-on-your-plate and www.whatsonyourplateproject.org.

Ohio Grantmakers Forum (OGF) is hosting a discussion for funders and nonprofits to explore “Cleveland 2010: What You Expect, Need and Plan To Do” February 12 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Minter Conference Center, 1422 Euclid Avenue.

George Espy, OGF president, and John Begala, executive director of the Center for Community Solutions, will present the grantmaking outlook for 2010, provide a snapshot of community needs and lead an interactive discussion on how both grantmakers and nonprofits are adjusting to and coping with the economic downturn.

The program is free to Greater Cleveland nonprofits, but to ensure a diversity of nonprofits, registration is open to only one representative from each organization. To register, call Gail Anderson at 216–861–6223.

Health and social service providers and advocates and public officials and government employees are invited to a free forum on Financing Ohio’s Future: Human Services in Tough Times, December 10 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Center for Families and Children.

The session is one of four that the Center for Community Solutions is holding throughout Ohio to discuss strategies for maintaining human service and education spending in a recession, the effects of tax changes on state revenues and challenges for Ohio’s 2012–2013 budget.

Registration, at eWilliams@CommunitySolutions.com, is required.

The George Gund Foundation is a co-sponsor of the “Reinventing Older Communities: How Does Place Matter?” conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia March 26–28 in that city.

The conference, being held for the third time, has become a meeting ground for policymakers, community developers, lenders, funders, planners and government representatives who want to learn from leading practitioners and researchers around the country. The conference will include reports on academic research about critical urban issues, a panel of European mayors explaining how they have reinvigorated their cities and how-to sessions on using geographic information system mapping to revitalize stagnant markets.

Additional information and registration forms are available at www.philadelphiafed.org/cca/conferences.html

A day-long seminar for faith-based and community-based organizations interested in learning more about the availability of federal grants and the application process will be held in Columbus March 19.

The free seminar, hosted by U.S. Senator George Voinovich, will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the second floor auditorium of the William E. Green Building, 30 W. Spring Street in Columbus.

For additional information or for registration, contact Sen. Voinovich’s Toledo office at 419 259–3895 or email Linda_Greenwood@Voinovich.Senate.gov.