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June 2008 Newsletter
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The San Francisco Ballet's Yuan Yuan Tan and Damian Smith in the pas de deux from Wheeldon’s After the Rain. Photo copyright Erik Tomasson.
Putting Facts and Figures
to America's Cultural Life
San Francisco Ballet is not exactly a start-up when it comes to cultural organizations. With balanced budgets for seventeen consecutive years and a just-concluded $45 million endowment campaign, the Ballet is a well-oiled cultural machine.
But that doesn’t mean it has nothing left to learn about running a successful cultural institution, and that’s why the Ballet has embraced the California Cultural Data Project.
Read more about the California Cultural Data Project...
One of Mexico City's new buses glides down a dedicated bus lane. These buses help reduce pollution, as well as lower traffic congestion. Photo courtesy of Guerra Castellanos y Asociados.
A Breath of Fresh Air for Mexico City
Mexico City was long ago written off as among the most polluted places on earth, a metropolis where the act of breathing is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and the World Health Association recently attributed 4,000 deaths a year to pollution.
But today, city leaders have taken the first steps to improve its infamous air with 128 sleek, clean buses that use cleaner diesel technology and move 310,000 people daily along a dedicated traffic lane. The buses are the beginning of a grand urban project that Mayor Marcelo Ebrard hopes will transform his city into a model of metropolitan eco-consciousness—reducing greenhouse gases, lowering asthma rates, even cutting the number of traffic accidents.
Read more about Bus Rapid Transit in Mexico...
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“Foundations” is a series of informal question-and-answer sessions with employees and others affiliated with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to give them an opportunity to explain their work.
Pamela Burdman, a Program Officer with the Foundation’s Education Program, has primary responsibility for grants related to California’s community colleges. Before joining the Hewlett Foundation, she was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle and a freelance journalist. She also has taught college courses both in journalism and Mandarin. She holds an M.B.A. and M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in philosophy and East Asian Studies from Princeton University.
Read more of the Q&A with Pamela Burdman...
Philanthropy works best when its practitioners have places to share their thoughts. One of the livelier ones these days is the Web site Tactical Philanthropy, a blog hosted by Sean Stannard-Stockton, a San Francisco Bay Area financial advisor who also counsels clients on how to be effective philanthropists.
Read more about the Tactical Philanthropy blog...
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