New York, N.Y. 2012: Luce Leaders, Luce Awards, Million Dollar P.R. Packages, work in India, Afghanistan, Haiti – as well as Africa and the Americas. Help us end the year!
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Major PR Packages. PR packages valued at $1 million each were awarded this year to the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) and the Université de Note Dame d’Haïti (UNDH). No two countries in the world are in the news more often with bad news. Our grants are to publish frequent stories, working with editors from top American graduate school journalism programs, to push out regular articles highlighting good news written mostly by students in these countries.
Foundation Labor@tory Launched. The Labor@tory was conceived as a collaboration between the two dozen NYC-based organizations our Stewardship Report on Connecting Goodness has focused on promoting. The concept was to focus more on “spotlighting” our partners with less focus on non-partners.
Pop-up Storefronts Opening. Stonehenge Partners has enabled the J. Luce Foundation use of temporary pop-up storefront space – the Stonehenge/Luce Space & Annex – to use for non-profit endeavors in conjunction with its Labor@tory’s 24 non-profit-partners to be located at 1143 Second Avenue between 60 & 61 Streets.
Afghanistan Fund. In the spring the Edwin Gould Foundation hosted our reception to launch our Afghan Fund to support initiatives we have spotlighted for years, including the Afghan Child Education & Care Organization in Kabul (story). Diana Rockefeller and a host of others attended the reception (story).
Orphans International Worldwide. Last year OIWW contributed to twelve orphan care projects in Asia, Africa and the Americas. By the end of this year we anticipate increasing this giving. OIWW was founded in 1999 and is best known for its post-Tsunami work in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, and post-hurricane and earthquake in Haiti. Today OIWW helps support AIDS orphans in Africa.
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Luce LeadersTwo high school students — Christopher Rim (above left) and Isaac J. Kassin (above right) — were chosen to be 2012 Luce Leaders.Isaac founded our foundation’s Isaac J. Kassin Fund and Chris runs It Ends Today, an anti-bullying organization.Our leadership awards are to assist the next generation of NGO and philanthropic leaders in both developed and developing nations.Last year’s awards were given to Jin In of South Korea for her work with girls in Nepal and Jean Fédris Auguste, Esq., interim director of Uni Haiti.Isaac and Chris will speak at our Year-End Reception to be held Dec. 18 at Skadden, Arps.
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Mission ApprovedThe N.Y.S Department of Charities this year allowed the J. Luce Foundation to become the first foundation in the state – perhaps the U.S. – to grant not only funding but also “spotlighting.”“Spotlighting” is our unique ability to publicize through media and social media the goodness being done by non-profit organizations we chose to assist.Our primary mission continues to support young global leadership impacting positive social change in cooperation with the U.N. Millennium Development Goal ( MDGs). Internship Program. The Foundation supports young global leadership by first identifying and then training them We began 2012 with 4 interns and project ending the year with 12.
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