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As Communications Project Manager, Thuy provides project support for a broad range of communications initiatives at Irvine. View full bio »
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In April 2013, the following published articles mentioned the work of the Foundation or our grantees: Reducing traffic: Cities Can Promote Use of Transit and Cut Down on Costly Parking Spaces(San Jose Mercury News, 4/28/13)AUSD is Leading the Way(Antioch Herald, 4/23/13)Dual Enrollment Gives Struggling Students a College Try(Kitsap Sun, 4/19/13)Sta ...
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In March 2013, the following published articles mentioned the work of the Foundation or our grantees: Elk Grove Unified Starts New Career Program(Elk Grove Citizen, 3/28/13)Cathie Anderson: Sacramento Recycler Sees Businesses Upgrading Tech Equipment(Sacramento Bee, 3/25/13)Linked Learning Study Shows Narrowing of Achievement Gap(KPBS, 3/22/13)Most ...
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In February 2013, the following published articles mentioned the work of the Foundation or our grantees: Nonprofit’s Coaches Teach Kids Games and Prevent Bullying(Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2/24/13)Internship Program Provides Students with 'Life-Changing' Opportunities in Health Field(Reporting on Health, 2/21/13)Foundation Honors Community Leaders ...
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In January 2013, the following published articles mentioned the work of the Foundation or our grantees: Linked learning Comes of Age in California With New Pilot Programs(EdSource, 1/29/13)County Conservation Leader Earns $125,000 Award: James Irvine Foundation Hails Karen Christensen's Leadership(Contra Costa Times, 1/24/13)Artists Prepare ‘Street ...
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In December 2012, the following published articles mentioned the work of the Foundation or our grantees: Leaders of the Year: Craig McNamara(Sacramento Business Journal, 12/28/12)James Irvine Foundation Grants $14.5 million for Arts, Youth and Learning(Sage, 12/21/12)Sundance Institute announces documentary grant recipients(Examiner, 12/17/12)Shake ...
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Jim is Irvine’s CEO. A native Californian, he is passionate about the Foundation’s mission of expanding opportunity. He also regularly uses Twitter (@jcanales) as a great way to listen and learn. View full bio »
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Dear Friends,Here are four views of California from the national media, just in the past month:“Far from presiding over a Greek-style crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown is proclaiming a comeback.”Paul Krugman column, The New York Times, March 31“You can laugh at the sunbaked barbarians, even wish them ill. But you should not fail to see in their fledgling r ...
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I am pleased to share two exciting developments for us at The James Irvine Foundation.First, effective today, we relocated our San Francisco headquarters to a new home in downtown San Francisco. We have moved across the street from our former location at 575 Market Street to One Bush Street, at the intersection of Market and First streets. This re ...
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What does the Irvine Foundation learn by regularly gathering feedback from grantees and other constituents? And how do we integrate those lessons into our work?How does the Foundation think about “risk” in the context of its grantmaking strategies?What is the proper role of government in social innovation?In an interview last week on the Social Vel ...
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Dear Friends, Within the past few weeks, I have read with interest the observations of a number of active bloggers in the arts field whom I have come to respect and admire: Nina Simon, Diane Ragsdale, Clay Lord and Barry Hessenius. Each of them has blogged on aspects of the Irvine Foundation’s new arts strategy and, in doing so, has contribute ...
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Dear Friends, We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2013 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards. The awards recognize Californians who are implementing innovative, effective solutions to critical state issues. This year’s recipients are particularly collaborative in their approaches and excel at building upon the resourcefulness and ...
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A native Californian, Daniel Silverman leads the Foundation’s communications work and develops communications strategies to advance Irvine’s program goals and mission. View full bio »
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Irvine’s Board of Directors approved $14.5 million in grants at its quarterly meeting last week. Of the 53 grants approved, 32 are in the Arts, three in California Democracy, four in our Youth program, 13 in Special Initiatives and one in Special Opportunities. I’d like to highlight some of the grants that we are excited about: Exploring Engagemen ...
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Irvine’s Board of Directors approved $16.9 million in grants at its quarterly meeting this week. Of the 31 grants approved, 10 are in the Arts, five in California Democracy, 14 in Youth, one in Special Initiatives, and one in Special Opportunities. I’d like to highlight some grants that we’re excited about: Exploring Engagement Fund for Large Org ...
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We are pleased to share with you our 2011 Performance Report in a new online format. While it includes many of the features of a traditional foundation annual report, our aim with this publication is to go beyond that approach and give you a deeper look at the Foundation’s progress toward its long-term goals. This report is based on the Annual P ...
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Irvine’s Board of Directors approved more than $20 million in grants at its quarterly meeting last week. Of the 36 grants approved, 22 in the Arts, nine in California Democracy two in Youth, and one in Special Initiatives. In addition, two Special Opportunities grants were approved. Here are a few grants that we’re particularly excited about:Explor ...
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Irvine’s Board of Directors recently took time at their annual retreat to pose the question: What will the most effective foundations of the future look like? On hand to enliven the discussion were three leading experts in the field: Lucy Bernholz, a highly regarded philanthropy blogger and managing director of Arabella Philanthropic Investment Ad ...
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As Director of the California Democracy program, Amy leads strategies aimed at improving state and local governance and at fostering inclusive public decision making. She also directs the annual James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards. View full bio »
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At Irvine, we believe a healthy democracy depends on decision making informed by the views and experiences of a broad cross-section of our communities. That’s why we’re heartened by the many public officials and civic leaders who place a high value on public participation and are interested in exploring new strategies to engage the public in decisi ...
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The USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration just released a new report titled What's at Stake for the State: Undocumented Californians, Immigration Reform and Our Future Together. Funded in part by the Irvine Foundation, the report calculates the potential economic gains to California overall and in specific regions through national immig ...
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A new report by Harder+Company Community Research on Irvine’s Families Improving Education (FIE) initiative offers fresh insights into the impact of parent and community involvement in educational policymaking. The report highlights how equipping parents with data, engaging them in discussions with school officials and connecting them with others i ...
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As my colleague Tim Silard of the Rosenberg Foundation wrote so eloquently earlier this week, Californians have a tremendous stake in the national discussions underway on immigration reform. We are a state of immigrants, with immigrants and their children comprising 40 percent of California’s population and immigrant workers totaling over one-third ...
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Between 2000 and 2010, the Asian American population grew faster than any other racial group in California, increasing by nearly one third to comprise 13 percent of the state’s population. Yet public surveys often do not distinguish the views of this fast-growing population. As Irvine’s California Democracy program is dedicated to advancing public ...
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As Director of the Youth program, Anne Stanton leads Irvine’s strategies to establish Linked Learning as the means to transform educational achievement for young people in California. View full bio »
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One of the purposes of our website is to present clear information about what we are funding, why we are funding it, and what we hope to accomplish through our grantmaking. We hope to provide our grantees, grantseekers, and anyone interested in our work clear information about the impact we seek and how our grantmaking strategy is evolving. With th ...
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At a time when the need for higher levels of education is rising, we are pleased to report some good news: Participation in career-focused, dual enrollment programs correlates to positive, measurable improvements in outcomes for a population of young people who face serious barriers to gaining a postsecondary degree. In 2008, we launched the Concur ...
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Polls show that most Californians agree that our system of public education is not working for far too many of California’s young people. But there’s a lot less unanimity about how to fix our schools. Moreover, the common perception is that the debate on education reform is divisive, partisan and unproductive. With funding from Irvine, researchers ...
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As Arts Program Director, Josephine is leading the implementation of a new grantmaking strategy to “promote engagement in the arts for all Californians.” View full bio »
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A number of compelling conversations have been taking place over the last several weeks as a result of some very thoughtful blog posts about our Arts grantmaking strategy. (Nina Simon kicked it off with this post and then linked to related posts here.) What I find most exciting about all of this is the fact that a range of thoughtful leaders are e ...
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Late last year, our board approved 19 new grants as part of our statewide Exploring Engagement Fund and another five grants as part of our more targeted Exploring Engagement Fund for Priority Regions (focused on the Inland Empire and San Joaquin Valley). We now have 52 grantee partners that are providing an array of exciting new arts engagement opp ...
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Staying relevant amid a shifting landscape is an obstacle that’s very familiar in our field: arts organizations are challenged to meet the changing expectations of communities they serve. My predecessors at Irvine responded to that growing relevance gap in 2006 and launched the Arts Innovation Fund (AIF), a multiyear initiative that provided suppo ...
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There’s only one week left before the December 3 deadline to apply to our Exploring Engagement Fund, and we are looking forward to reviewing the creative proposals that many arts nonprofits will submit. As we’ve noted before, this is the only opportunity to apply to the Exploring Engagement Fund until December 2013, so we hope you'll consider appl ...
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It’s an exciting time in our Arts program as we begin to see our new arts strategy made real through grantee projects! I wrote about the first statewide Exploring Engagement Fund grants — supporting small- and mid-sized organizations — back in June. Now I am pleased to announce the first grants made as part of our Exploring Engagement Fund for La ...
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As Manager of Research and Evaluation, Kevin oversees evaluation efforts across Irvine’s program areas and leads our annual foundation-wide assessments. View full bio »
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Last week the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invited a diverse group of foundation staff, evaluation professionals and social media experts to talk about measurement and evaluation of social media. You can get a feel for some of the topics and ideas that were shared by reading the Twitter activity captured by the hashtag #SM_RE. RWJF has also captu ...
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Building leadership is one of Irvine’s core values, and one of the ways we try to realize that value is through the Fund for Leadership Advancement. Started in 2005, the fund supports the development of individual leaders as a way to increase the impact of existing Irvine grantee organizations. Although the fund has been on hiatus while we conducte ...
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As part of our Special Initiatives grantmaking, we fund research on occasion that can help us understand the trends and issues facing the nonprofit sector. After all, we can only accomplish our mission through the hard work of the nonprofit organizations that we partner with. Understanding the nonprofit environment helps us do a better job ...
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When the financial crisis struck in the fall of 2008, Jan Karlin was in the middle of her two-year grant from Irvine’s Fund for Leadership Advancement (FLA). Karlin had had great success as cofounder and executive director of Southwest Chamber Music in Pasadena. The ensemble had won two Grammy Awards, been on three world tours in the previous four ...
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Anne Vally was with The James Irvine Foundation from 2000 to 2013, last serving as a Senior Program Officer for Special Initiatives.
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As the San Joaquin Valley’s economic, social and educational challenges have gained more national attention, it’s easy to get lost in the myriad of well-documented problems and issues facing the valley. However, we have also seen a groundswell of new energy and creative ideas bubbling up in the region. New leaders are harnessing the valley’s longst ...
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One of the most fundamental values we hold at Irvine is to share what we’re learning. We want our colleagues — both nonprofits and other funders — to be able to apply the most promising ideas, approaches and strategies to their work – and to also avoid the ones that aren’t working. We will be putting this value into action at the upcoming Council o ...
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Earlier this month, I was part of an event in Napa County that shows why a creative and resourced community foundation is one of the most important assets a community can have. More than 150 civic leaders, business people, teachers and community members attended a gathering hosted by the Napa Valley Community Foundation to talk about immigration an ...
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Over the past six years, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with a set of small, young community foundations in under-resourced parts of California as they aim to grow faster, smarter, and increase the positive impact they are having in their communities. With Irvine’s Community Foundations Initiative II (CFI II), I have learned one indelibl ...
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The Community Leadership Project is a $10 million investment, made collaboratively by Irvine and the Packard and Hewlett foundations, to support the effectiveness and impact of a set of small organizations that are deeply rooted in low-income communities and communities of color. The project began in 2009, and more than 100 community organizations ...
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As Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer, John directs the Foundation’s $1.6 billion endowment and develops its investment policy and strategy. View full bio »
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Our ability to achieve our mission depends on a variety of factors, but one of the most fundamental is the performance of Irvine’s investment program, which produces the resources that allow us to make grants. For this reason, we’d like to draw attention to the annual letter from Chief Investment Officer John Jenks that was included in our recently ...
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Ted Russell has been with Irvine since 2005 and helps oversee many of the Foundation’s grants to the arts field. He’s also an arts news aficionado and has built a robust Twitter presence. Follow him: @artsted. View full bio »
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Last week, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan joined ArtPlace director Carol Coletta in touring the Oakland neighborhood that was designated one of America's Top 12 ArtPlaces. As she announced the award at the press conference, Carol made the point of saying this award was data-based and in fact entirely statistical. Since it’s not biased or subjective, the ...
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Irvine recently hosted a set of informal question and answer sessions about our new Exploring Engagement Fund for Large Organizations in three cities: San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. We met with administrators from arts organizations throughout the state representing an impressive breadth of art forms: theater, opera, ballet, orchestral m ...
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