Education Foundation website provides new link

If you ever checked out the lists of meetings, sector champions and other documents on the old Yes We Can! Birmingham website, you should bookmark a new place to turn for information about the next phase of this grassroots initiative of the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. From now on, when you want to know [...]

Domestic violence officers give inside view

When Officer Kenneth Walton moved into the detective bureau of Birmingham Police Department, he found himself taking on a special responsibility for handling domestic violence cases. Today, four years later, he has enough experience to be able to give some advice to batterers.
His top advice is that they should seek counseling. “You can’t just [...]

Leno premiere boosts The Women’s Fund

Mavis Leno showed her concern for the issue of domestic violence with a previous appearance to benefit the Voices Against Violence initiative of The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham . On Sept. 14, a special premiere party for her husband’s new television show continues the family connection.
NBC-13 is hosting the party as a kickoff for [...]

Health Action – CBS 42

Health Action – CBS 42
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UAB Hospital programs make list of ‘bests’

The dynamic medical and economic engine known as UAB once again puts us on a list of bests, this time with eight UAB Hospital specialty programs making the list published by U.S. News & World Report.
It’s great to have bragging rights, for example, that the UAB Hospital rheumatology program ranks eighth out of programs offered [...]

Lowering interstate can renew connections

What would our community feel like if without the barrier of major interstate connections through downtown Birmingham? That’s what a recent concept report explored, through the guidance of Operation New Birmingham and the assistance of the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham.
The report evaluated the engineering, construction and cost feasibility for [...]

National council leader eyes new role for grantmakers

In today’s tough economic times, Steve Gunderson, chief executive of the Council on Foundations, challenged foundations across the country to “transform philanthropy’s role in society.”
According to Gunderson, grantmakers have the opportunity to innovate and forge new relationships with federal, state and local governments. New public-philanthropic partnerships have been suggested by President Obama as a way [...]

Don’t scale down, give back

From the San Bernardino County Sun, in response to Wall Street Journal article on April 22: When most of us are thinking about scaling down our spending and other ways to cope with the latest bad financial news, it is a stretch to think about giving away money. But people are doing it.
Not just [...]

A walk to the library

April 27, 2059

The morning sun is kind. Springtime has never looked lovelier in downtown Birmingham.
As I step out onto my loft patio, I’m enjoying a day filled with possibilities. Perhaps I’ll take the solar-powered bus over to the library to chat with fellow readers. I may walk instead, since this weather is meant to be [...]

Young voices, young families

What will our community be like for our kids? And what do they imagine for their homes, their neighborhoods, their world in another 50 years?
That’s what filmmaker Jennifer West is finding out as she captures the voices of children for a special video that will be shown at the Community Foundation annual meeting on May [...]