Bruner Foundation Inc

	Rudy Bruner Award winners enliven our nation's cities and provide innovative models for addressing some of our country's most persistent urban ills.
	The Bruner Loeb Forum applies the expertise of Rudy Bruner Award winners and Loeb fellows and alumna to a wide variety of challenges facing our cities.
	These initiatives work to increase effectiveness in the nonprofit service sector by strengthening internal evaluation capacity and the ability to use evaluative thinking in a wide range of organizational areas.
	Since its founding in 1963, the Bruner Foundation has been known for innovative thinking about complex social issues, and for its ongoing commitment to meaningful social change.

RUDY BRUNER AWARD

2009 Gold Medal Winner:

Inner-City Arts , Los Angeles

2009 Silver Medal Winners:

Hunts Point Riverside Park , Bronx, NY
Millennium Park , Chicago
St. Joseph Rebuild Center , New Orleans
The Community Chalkboard and Podium , Charlottesville, VA

BRUNER LOEB FORUM

On April 16 the Bruner Loeb Forum will travel to the Music Center in Los Angeles for a Forum entitled, "City as a Stage: Placemaking for the Performing Arts." The event will present new paradigms for performing arts throughout the country and explore the implications of those trends for placemaking for the arts. Please see the Bruner Loeb Forum website, Upcoming Events, for more information.

EFFECTIVENESS INITIATIVES

Check out a just released study, Non-Profit Leadership Development - core competencies, growing skills, preparing for the future. The Looking-Glass Institute conducted extensive interviews with 36 Executive Directors in Pittsburgh, PA. Funded by Bruner Foundation, Heinz Endowments and the Forbes Funds, this work has broad implications for both grantmakers and their grantees.

The Bruner Foundation is pleased to announce the release of eleven Evaluative Thinking Bulletins . These papers offer specific ways to increase the use of evaluative thinking in organizations with topics ranging from "Board Members and Evaluation" to "Evaluation and HR".