TAKING A RISK | 
“Mary Brown, Co-founder and Executive Director of Life Pieces to Masterpieces, shares how this organization’s first grant — from The Hitachi Foundation — put them on the way to positively impacting the lives of more than 150 African-American boys and young men each year.”
PARTNERSHIPS? | “Due to District Government budget cuts, the Office of Partnerships and Grant Services will no longer be an agency in FY2011, and our services may not be available moving forward.” – from an OPGS email to prior participants in the DC’s Strengthening Partners Initiative.
PHILANTHROPY | Female philanthropy is on the rise (NYTimes, 6/29)
OBESITY | Study shows obesity rates still rising (AP, 6/29) – but DC “was the only area to see a decline in adult obesity rates.” We’ll take our good news where we can get it. However, the childhood obesity rate was unchanged, reports the DC Examiner using words like “plump,” “fat,” and “chunky.”
DC SCHOOLS
- Teachers’ contract is approved unanimously by council (WaPo, 6/30)
- Interview with Michelle Rhee (WAMU, 6/30)
NEWS NEWS | Funders urged to improve public interest media investment (Philanthropy Journal, 6/30)
SLOWWWW FOOD | Slow Money: A New Community Movement Is Picking Up Steam (FiscalTimes, 6/11) – This is about investing in locally grown food. Is it me, or has the word “slow” acquired an almost seductive quality? Perhaps slow is the new fast. If I write a book, that’s the title, right there. Guaranteed winner. Next step: content!
- Nick
