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 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.

RUDY BRUNER AWARD

The Bruner Foundation has announced the 2013 Rudy Bruner Award Gold and Silver Medal winners. Visit the RBA page for more information.

BRUNER LOEB FORUM

This fall the Bruner Foundation and the Loeb Fellowship will host a Bruner-Loeb Forum on Legacy Cities. The event will be held in Detroit in partnership with the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, the American Assembly at Columbia University, and the Detroit Collaborative Design Center. For more information about this and other events, visit the Bruner Loeb Forum page.

EFFECTIVENESS INITIATIVES

The Foundation has added a new resource to its Effectiveness Initiatives. Project Clearinghouse is a searchable database for funders and nonprofit providers looking for approaches to build evaluative capacity. Resources include project descriptions, information about the participant selection process, time commitment, costs, results and challenges as well as materials available for free download.