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Community Hospital- Fairfax, MO Celebrates Success
Posted by JBA in JBA News & Notes on August 12th, 2009
Community Hospital-Fairfax (Mo.) has surpassed its $1.5 million fundraising goal for its new facility.
In front of a crowd of hospital supporters, contributors and employees on June 30, Community Hospital Board of Directors President Beverly White announced that the capital campaign, begun in May 2008, had raised more than $1,518,000. Donations continued coming in, bringing the total to more than $1,526,000 as of Friday.
“We have 167 individuals, businesses and foundations that have pledged to our campaign, over 100 participants in our 5K Fun Walk event and 100 percent of our employees who have also contributed generously to this campaign,” Community Hospital CEO Myra Evans told the crowd June 30. “We will all have great health care right here at home because of you.”
The steering committee members were recognized at the ceremony, as were key supporters of the campaign and Congressman Sam Graves, who was instrumental in helping the hospital receive a congressional appropriation for $377,000.
For more information about capital campaigns for community hospitals contact www.fundraisingjba.com.
Jeffrey Byrne & Associates Partners With Experts in Senior Living Industry
Posted by JBA in JBA News & Notes on July 21st, 2009
In response to the growing needs of organizations that serve retiring baby boomers, Jeffrey Byrne & Associates, Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with senior living industry experts Jean G. Bacon and Sharon Brooks.
The goal of this new partnership, 3B Fund Development Group, is to offer organizations in the senior living industry best practices and technology in fundraising planning and campaign techniques.
Make the most of the Giving in KC report
Posted by JBA in Giving USA, JBA News & Notes on July 16th, 2009
You’ve heard the results of the Giving USA 2009 and Giving in Kansas City reports, now dialogue with colleagues in your sector about what your organization has been and is currently experiencing. JBA, Nonprofit Connect, the Kansas City Community Foundation and the Giving USA Foundation have partnered to offer six smaller sessions focused on specific nonprofit sectors in Kansas City.
To add even more value to the discussions, nonprofit administrators are being invited to fill out a survey on more recent giving trends and what they’ve seen since the recession. You can register for your session and fill out your survey at the Nonprofit Connect website. You are encouraged to take the survey even if you can’t attend your sector session.
- The sessions are broken out as follows:
- Healthcare sector – Sept. 15
- Religion & Faith-Based sectors – Sept. 30
- Education sector – Oct. 1
- Human Services and Public/Society Benefit sectors – Oct. 14
- Arts, Culture and Humanities sectors – Oct. 21
These workshops are free of charge and participation is limited to the first 50 registrants. To learn more, take part in the important pre-event survey, and to register, Click Here.
Did you miss the Giving in Kansas City episode on KCUR?
Posted by JBA in Giving USA, JBA News & Notes, Uncategorized on July 15th, 2009
During the week leading up to the Kansas City presentation of Giving USA, JBA’s Jennifer Furla joined in a discussion about philanthropy in Kansas City on KCUR’s news talk show, Up to Date.
Here is the program summary, as described on the KCUR online archives:
There’s no debate that times are tough with foreclosures and lay-offs everywhere you turn. However, even though this year witnessed the first decline of charitable giving in decades, people still manage to give to charitable causes. In fact, Kansas City is one of the most giving cities in the nation.
Steve Kraske talks with Patrick Rooney, the executive director of the Center on Philanthropy, Jennifer Furla, the executive vice president of Jeffrey Byrne & Associates, and Jaclyn Steiner, the Assistant Vice President of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. They examine how although national giving has declined slightly, things may be on the upswing in Kansas City as the city’s average high-income individual giving is twice the national average.
Listen to the program here: Up to Date – A discussion about philanthropic giving in Kansas City and the nation [Source: archive.kcur.org]
Kansas Citians Among Most Generous
Posted by JBA in Capacity Building, Fundraising in a Recession, Giving USA, JBA News & Notes on July 14th, 2009
Giving in Kansas City report
Released July 9 to an audience of more than 300 Kansas City-area nonprofit professionals, and in special sessions with grantmakers, board volunteers and philanthropists, Giving in Kansas City 2008 gives us statistical support for what many of us have suspected all along: Kansas Citians are a very generous lot.
So much so that household giving outpaces national averages by a range of 50% to as much as two times greater for various demographics. And, across all income levels, Kansas Citians give more per household than others across the nation.
Benchmarked against Giving USA, the authoritative source for tracking philanthropic giving in America for more than half a century, and researched by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Giving in Kansas City received tremendous attention in local media. Visit our site, as well as the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and Kansas City’s Nonprofit Connect to download a copy of the report, the July 9 presentation on Giving in Kansas City and Giving USA, and to connect to links to KCUR’s coverage on Up to Date with Steve Kraske and front-page coverage in The Kansas City Star.
Starting July 15, the Kansas City nonprofit community can register to attend one of six sessions co-sponsored by JB&A and Nonprofit Connect, along with the Community Foundation, this Fall to look at specific sector data and to share our collective experience with fundraising and how we are reponding to challenges in the current economy.