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 RBA Finalists Announced:

  • Hunts Point Riverside Park, Bronx, NY
  • Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles
  • Millennium Park, Chicago
  • St. Joseph Rebuild Center, New Orleans
  • The Community Chalkboard and Podium, Charlottesville, VA
The 2009 Selection Committee includes:
  • Mayor David N. Cicilline, Providence, RI
  • Michael A. Dobbins, Professor of Practice, College of Architecture , Georgia Tech
  • Mary Houghton, President, Shore Bank Corp, Chicago
  • Grace E. La, La Dallman Architects Inc., Milwaukee
  • Jair Lynch, Jair Lynch Development Partners, Washington D.C.
  • Martha Welborne,Managing Director, Grand Avenue Committee, Los Angeles

Applications are due at the Bruner Foundation on December 15, 2008. Finalists will be selected in January of 2009, and winners in May 2009. The Gold Medal Winner will receive $50,000 and four Silver Medal winners will receive $10,000 each. We welcome inquiries and applications from a variety of projects and locations. Please visit our web site, or get in touch with us by email of telephone at:617.492.8404.

BRUNER LOEB FORUM

The Bruner Loeb Forum held events in Birmingham and Memphis in the spring of 2008. A Forum is currently planned for New Orleans in the spring of 2009. To learn more about recent fora and to inqure about a Forum in your city, please visit us on line at: www.brunerloeb.org


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".