Search johnahartford.org Sort by: Relevance Most Recent Oldest Searched for | Total Results: 5562 Growing Leaders: Mentoring is Critical June 05, 2009 - The 2008 Hartford Annual Report, A Call for Leadership in Aging, identifies four essential elements of a leadership program: formal training, mentoring, peer networking, and answering the call. The second element, mentoring, has long been recognized as a critical factor in the development of successful leadership. Mentors share their… Growing Leaders: The Importance of Peer Networking June 09, 2009 - When I came to the Hartford Foundation 13 years ago, I had extensive board, higher education, and governmental experience and networks, but I didn't know the field of aging or foundations, nor did I have a network in either area. Fully recognizing that I would need to expand my… Growing Leaders: Answering the Call June 12, 2009 - Reading our 2008 Annual Report, A Call for Leadership in Aging, one paragraph jumped out at me. It’s on page 24, the first paragraph under “Answering the Call”: The next time you say to yourself, “Why don’t they do something about that?” look in the mirror. Ask the person… Effective Philanthropy, Part I: Facing Facts June 17, 2009 - While arrogance combined with a great excess of infallibility is the black lung of foundation program work and a nearly unavoidable occupational hazard for even the best program staff, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) has the treatment for the disease. Their Grantee Perception Report (GPR) gives both confidential feedback… Giving Back June 24, 2009 - This past year has been challenging for everyone. In response to the plummeting financial market, we have had to ask Hartford grantees to scale back programs and strategically redefine their core elements to make the most of fewer resources. I know it must be a difficult time to be a… I Learned They’re Not Dead: Health Professions Trainees Say the Funniest Things July 01, 2009 - One of the problems we face in our work at the Foundation is that ageism and ignorance about what it takes to provide high quality health care to older adults is so ingrained that most of the time it is hard to notice. The want-to-be cardiologist who says that he… “The Patients Doctors Don’t Know” July 03, 2009 - The day after I posted a blog about the importance of medical students receiving education in geriatrics, Rosanne Leipzig, MD, published an excellent op-ed in the New York Times on the same topic entitled “The Patients Doctors Don’t Know”. Dr. Leipzig, who leads the Foundation’s Center of Excellence in Geriatric… Effective Philanthropy, Part 2: Setting Objectives July 09, 2009 - The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) has a pretty simple formula for foundation effectiveness: Clarity of goals and objectives + Relevant strategies based in plausible, causal logic that relates grant activities to those goals (aka the Theory of Change) + Feedback and monitoring of indicators of progress and impact =… Nursing Workforce Solutions for the 21st Century July 15, 2009 - On June 12, 2009, I--along with over 200 others--attended a forum hosted by the Health Affairs journal and the AARP/Robert Wood Johnson Center to Champion Nursing in America. The forum, “Nursing Workforce Solutions for the 21st Century Health Care: How Do We Get There?” celebrated the recent collection of… New Funding for Community Colleges July 21, 2009 - On July 15, at Macomb Community College (Warren, Michigan), President Barack Obama offered a new plan to commit $12 billion in federal funds to community college education across the nation. The plan, called The American Graduation Initiative, would provide funding to help these schools establish partnerships with businesses, coordinate their…
