Rubalcava Receives Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking

Minnesota-based Magui Rubalcava, director of programs for Hispanics in Philanthropy, has been named one of four co-recipients of the national Council on Foundations' 2003 Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking. Rubalcava and her colleagues are being recognized for their involvement in the design and implementation of the Funders' Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities.

The prestigious award will be presented on April 29, 2003, at the Council's annual conference in Dallas. Receiving the Scrivner Award along with Rubalcava are:

• Luz Vega-Marquis, president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation.
• Aida Rodriguez, Ph.D., chair, Nonprofit Management Program, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School in New York City.
• Barbara Taveras, president and board secretary of the Edward Hazen Foundation.

The Funders' Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities is a national/transnational initiative that funds small- to medium-sized Latino nonprofits. Its goals are to generate a greater percentage of grants for U.S. Latino nonprofits and to develop the next generation of Latino leaders.

"The Funders' Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities is a bold and innovative response to a critical need to support America's growing Latino community," said Dorothy S. Ridings, president and CEO of the Council on Foundations. "This team of women used extraordinary skills to develop an unproven and untested program, and they have achieved impressive results."

Rubalcava's work for Hispanics in Philanthropy is based out of the offices of the Otto Bremer Foundation in St. Paul.

The Scrivner Award was established in 1984 to recognize a grantmaker who has demonstrated outstanding creativity, and is one of the Council's highest honors. It recognizes grantmakers who possess a combination of vision, principle and personal commitment to make a difference in a creative way through grantmaking. The award was created as a memorial to the late Robert Winston Scrivner, former staff associate of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and first executive director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, by his friends and colleagues.

The Council also announced that its 2003 Distinguished Grantmaker Award will go to Steven A. Minter, president and executive director of The Cleveland Foundation. The award recognizes lifetime achievement in philanthropy. Minter has been with the foundation since 1975, and he has served as president and executive director since 1984. (Read a feature article on Minter from the March/April 2003, issue of the Council's "Foundation News & Commentary" magazine).

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