GRANTMAKERS FORUM
OF NEW YORK
Philanthropy Forum
GOT GRANTS?
Diversifying Your Funding Resources
March
27 , 2006 1-4 pm
RIT Inn & Conference Center, 5257 W. Henrietta Rd., West Henrietta,
NY 14586
minutes from the NYS Thruway and downtown Rochester
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Leveraging Limited Resources for Greater Impact
SANDRA LOPACKI
Deputy Director,
Local Initiative Funding Partners (LIFP),
a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJAs a deputy director of Local Initiative Funding Partners, Sandra Lopacki works with one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's most competitive national grantmaking programs. LIFP annually awards up to $6 million in partnership with local philanthropies to fund promising, original, community-based health projects. Lopacki encourages local grantmakers and nonprofit organizations to collaborate in developing initiatives that offer creative, ambitious solutions to critical health or health care problems. To receive an LIFP matching grant of $100,000 to $500,000 paid out over three or four years, a new project must be nominated by a local funder.
Prior to joining LIFP, Lopacki managed the Anne E. Dyson Community Pediatrics Training Initiative, a grantmaking program to establish 10 model pediatric residency programs emphasizing community-based medicine and advocacy to improve children's health.
Lopacki is a native of Buffalo, NY, and holds a bachelor's degree from State University College of New York at Buffalo, a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University and a master's in speech pathology from Northwestern University.
Finding Federal Funding
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Nancy Peacock
Director, Community Planning and Development
US Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentNancy Peacock currently serves as the Director, of Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Buffalo, New York Office. Ms. Peacock is responsible for the oversight and administration of CPD programs and management of federal grants within 48 counties in New York State. Programs include a variety of entitlement and competitive programs such programs include; Community Development Block Grant, HOME, Emergency Shelter, Homeless Opportunities for Persons with Aids, as well as Homeless, Youthbuild, Rural Housing and Economic Development. Ms. Peacock has over 20 years of managerial experience with the Department of HUD, serving in both programmatic and administrative leadership positions.
Ms. Peacock will speak about finding federal funding, how to access federal agencies, how to learn about current grant opportunities, what eligibility criteria and review processes are in place, and more.
Grantmaking in New York State
SARA OGGER
Senior Program Officer,
New York Council for the Humanities, New York, NYSara Ogger, Ph.D., has served at the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, since 2002. For over 30 years, the Council has provided grants and direct services to tax-exempt organizations in New York State to help them offer high-quality programs centrally focused in the humanities, that is, in history, heritage and identity studies, literature, philosophy, art history and criticism, among other areas of study. At the Council, she directs the grants program (including outreach, evaluation, and management) and oversees the Council's signature programs (including Speakers in the Humanities, Reading Between the Lines for Adults, and a new family reading program).
Prior to joining the Council, she was a professor of German at Montclair University in New Jersey. She received her Doctorate in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Princeton University and holds a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College.
Creating a Winning Grant Application
KEVIN WILLIAMS
Director of Research and Resource Development,
Institute for Human Services, Bath, NYKevin D. Williams, M.A., is a Resource Developer with over 16 years of experience in the local human services/education communities. In his role with the Institute for Human Services, Williams provides comprehensive research for funding opportunities across public/private resources, convenes multi-agency groups around project development, and creates proposals based on community needs assessments and planning.
Successful project proposals have brought in over $7 million in funding from local, state, and federal sources since 2000. Williams's previous experience includes founding and facilitating the Domestic Abuse Review Team, a multi-agency group formed around a grant project of his design. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Nonnie Hood Parent Resource Center as well as the Advisory Council for the Catholic Charities Turning Point Community Solutions Center. Williams is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia University's Teachers College.
Online Philanthropic Tools
BERNADETTE BRINKMAN
Librarian, Business and Social Sciences Division, Rochester Public Library;
Supervisor, Cooperating Collection, Foundation Center, New York, NYBernadette Brinkman is a graduate of the University of Rochester and the SUNY College at Geneseo School of Library and Information Science. Prior to assuming her current position, Bernadette worked in the Catalog Department of the Rochester Public Library for 27 years in various capacities, including department head, and was manager of the Lincoln Regional Branch Library. She has taught Bibliographic Control of Recorded Information, a required course toward the master's degree, at the SUNY University at Buffalo School of Informatics.
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