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Butler Family
Fund: The First Ten Years. November 2004.
When the board of the Butler Family Fund
awarded its first program grants in the spring of 1994,
the only thing certain was our intent. As the seven
nieces and nephews of the late Zella and Jack Butler
and stewards of the small foundation bearing their family
name, we determined that our work should mirror the
overarching principles of their lives: respect for all
human beings, enhancement of individual opportunities,
and a concern for the less fortunate of our society.
Ten years later, we are passing a milestone that is
an opportunity for contemplation. After a decade of
self-scrutiny, consensus-building and even a few periods
of battle-scarred détente, we think we have something
to celebrate in the grants we have made. ...
This publication won the Silver Award
in the 2005 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence
in Communications in the category of Special Reports.
Sponsored by the Council on Foundations, this awards
program recognizes effective communications efforts
to increase public awareness of foundations and corporate
giving programs.
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Ending
Homelessness: The Philanthropic Role.
Presented by The National Foundation Advisory Group
for Ending Homelessness. October 2003.
This guide outlines various strategic contributions
that foundations can make to prevent and end homelessness:
- Advocacy and public education to increase the understanding
of homelessness, build public will, and make change
to local, state, and national policies.
- Community planning to bring all stakeholders to
the table with the explicit purpose of ending homelessness.
- Prevention programs and systems change to intervene
before people become homeless.
- Housing production, rehabilitation, and preservation
to maintain and expand the supply of affordable housing.
- Integration of fragmented systems to provide coordinated
and comprehensive services.
- Specialized supportive services to keep formerly
homeless people housed.
This publication won the Gold Award in the 2004 Wilmer
Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications
in the category of Public Information Campaigns. Sponsored
by the Council on Foundations, this awards program recognizes
effective communications efforts to increase public
awareness of foundations and corporate giving programs. |
Evaluation of Welfare Grants, 1996-2002. November 2006
Between 1996 and 2002, the Butler Family Fund spent money from its homeless program budget to fund advocacy relating to welfare reform. We were concerned that homelessness would rise because of policy changes that dramatically weakened the safety net. We supported advocacy to try to blunt the impact of these changes and to work for improvements around welfare reform.
This memorandum provides basic background on the welfare law, describes our funding history in the area, examines the impact of that funding, and concludes with a consideration of this advocacy work. Two appendices provide data.
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