November 2017                                                                                       Volume 3
Corporate Philanthropy Partners
Keeping you up to speed with timely information and communication between Corporate Philanthropy Partners. 
Thank you Corporate Philanthropy Partners - Our list of regional community leaders grows each quarter.
Welcome,   EDAWN and Barrick. 



























 



Corporate Philanthropy Partner Lunch Meeting 
Thursday, December 7
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Speaker: Cory Hunt
Deputy Director, Governor's Office of Economic Development

Corporate Support for the Community in Nevada's New Economy. 

Cory Hunt will present  a brief overview of the structural changes seen in the recent economy and the essential component of industry engagement. We will talk about a few of the local challenges that would benefit from corporate support. 

Community Foundation Founders Room
50 Washington Street, Reno, NV 89503

Partner's logos featured on the back cover of the Caregiver Guidebook.
Caregiver Support Initiative
Caregiver Guide in Spanish!

Thanks to the generous support of Jan Marson, and Nature's Bakery, 3, 000 copies of the Washoe Caregivers Guidebook are ready to be put in the hands of new caregivers by hospital discharge planners. 
¡Q úe Bueno!

Your customers may be caregivers. 
They will appreciate you sharing these resources. 
Is your company able to help spread the word about these two life-line services for seniors?

Can you publicize the Caregiver Support Initiative  to your clients and customers in your regular mailings, on your website, or have a holder on display in your lobby with website address business cards and Caregiver Guidebooks?

If you can help please contact Ginny at 775-333-5499. 
Barrick Joins Corporate Partnership, Invests in Community Foundation of Elko County. 

Barrick has committed significant support to the Community Foundation of Elko County (CFEC), an affiliate fund of the Community Foundation of Western Nevada. Barrick believes in the value the Foundation will provide to the sustainability of Elko County communities for generations to come and has pledged to invest $116,000 over four years to the CFEC. The CFEC is an endowment fund making annual grants to local nonprofits from the fund's investment returns. Residents were asked to nominate nonprofit organizations to receive the Fund's first grants and two were awarded in the summer of 2017. As a Corporate Philanthropy Partner, Barrick aims to raise the awareness of the needs of rural Nevada Communities and serve as a liaison in connecting those in need with those who can help. 

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Inside Philanthropy features JP Morgan Chase

Philanthropy Targets WorkForce Skills and Urban Poverty.

David Callahan profiles JPMorgan Chase's efforts to improve the impact of their grantmaking, which in 2013 was described as a "mile wide and an inch deep" for Inside Philanthropy. Digging deeper into areas where the have an ability to make real change led to focused giving on a large scale. 

Read Inside Philanthropy "Banking Against Urban Poverty: Inside JPMorgan Chase Philanthropy"    

JPMorgan Chase tops the Fortune Top 10 on the 
Briefly
By Nancy Brown 
Corporate Philanthropy as a Catalyst for Change
Schwab Bank's philanthropy focuses on community development activities that includes affordable housing. We recognize the acute and long-term shortage of housing for the homeless, affordable housing for people with low incomes, and workforce housing in the Truckee Meadows region.

As Director of Community Development, I wrestle with the decision to continue to fund the status quo, grants that meet a real need in people's lives, or to take a risk and attempt to find a solution to the lack of affordable housing in the Truckee Meadows. 

Ginny Harding-Davis | Community Foundation of Western Nevada
775-333-5499 | gdavis@nevadafund.org  | nevadafund.org
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