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2013 Legacy of Service
Award
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Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard received the 2013 Legacy of Service Award from Leadership California on April 29 in Los Angeles. Above, the Congresswoman meets students from Inner-City Arts, an after-school visual and performing arts program for at-risk elementary, middle and high school students in Los Angeles.
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A POLITICAL PIONEER, in 1992 Lucille Roybal-Allard was elected the first Mexican-American woman in Congress, representing the 40th District.
ROYBAL-ALLARD CHAMPIONS increased access to health care, affordable housing, upgraded public schools, school safety, an increased federal minimum wage, preservation of Social Security and Medicare, and economic growth to create new jobs.
SHE SERVES ON THE HOUSE Appropriations Committee and subcommittees: Homeland Security and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
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Q&A with Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard:
Trailblazer Values Women's Influence in Policymaking
by Carol Caley
April 25, 2013
Q: Congresswoman, you’ve supported legislation and resolutions on a wide-ranging set of issues: immigration, teen pregnancy, improved nursing home care and maternity care, protections for child farm workers, school computer funding, and even revitalization of the Los Angeles River. Of your many efforts and accomplishments as an elected officeholder, can you tell us which meant the most to you?
A: IT’S HARD TO CHOOSE, but there are two: one is the newborn screening bill that passed five years ago. Prior to that bill becoming law, the state did not test babies for various birth problems that, if detected early, could prevent disease, or permanent brain damage, or even death. So I feel very strongly about that bill, as well as the STOP Act, which addresses the crisis of underage drinking, which is among the leading causes of death for young people. Addressing the needs of our newborns and children really is key, not only to their future, but also the future well-being and strength of our country. Both of these bills are now up for reauthorization.
Q: Those are critical ages, newborns and teens. So when those pieces of legislation passed, they only lasted 5 years, and had to be reauthorized? Can you explain?
A: BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE STOP ACT was a simple bill that started a national campaign to make people aware of the dangers of underage drinking, and also to have parents understand those dangers. It took me about 8 years to be able to get that bill passed. It took many years of fighting to pass something that, one would think, was very very simple, simply an educational program to inform teens and parents.
Q: Is there a danger of it being phased out, then, if it’s not reauthorized?
A: WE’VE GOTTEN VERY GOOD SUPPORT from community-based organizations who work with the community about the dangers of underage drinking.
The good thing about both these bills, particularly in today’s environment, is that both have passed with strong bi-partisan support. So we’re anticipating that we will get the support we need and get them reauthorized.
Q: There is a national conversation going on about women stepping up to lead, and why women hold back. I’m reading Sheryl Sandburg’s "Lean In" right now, about how women not only face external barriers erected by society, but barriers within themselves as well. In general, women either cannot or will not attain the highest leadership positions at their companies or in their careers. Why do so few women run for elected office, and if we had more elected women leaders, what would be the result?
A: I JUST GOT THE BOOK and look forward to reading it.
It's a very complex issue, and there’s not any one reason. On one hand, the way society has viewed women traditionally—although we have made some progress— women are not necessarily encouraged to seek positions of power, like being an elected official. Women are still channeled, or brought up, to think of more traditional roles: teaching and nursing, those kinds of careers, which are extremely valuable. But I don’t think a young woman is brought up to think: you know what, you should grow up to be a politician, and then maybe someday you can be president. Read more here
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The
Changing Landscape of Philanthropy
last of our original series on California's future
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What's Next for California? features exclusive interviews with visionary thinkers in the arts, science, technology, and academia conducted for Leadership California by Global Business Network (GBN).
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Katherine Fulton
Katherine Fulton is a Monitor partner and president of the Monitor Institute, which enables leaders to create and implement systemic, innovative, social change.
A renowned expert on the future of philanthropy and a former award-winning journalist and newspaper publisher, Katherine is the co-author of What's Next for Philanthropy: Acting Bigger and Adapting Better in a Networked World; Investing for Social and Environmental Impact: A Blueprint for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry; Looking Out for the Future: An Orientation for Twenty-First Century Philanthropists; and What If? The Art of Scenario Thinking for Nonprofits.
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Read MORE: The Scenario Thinking Process and Leadership California's Scenarios
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Key Trends in Philanthropy Today
GBN: Katherine, for the last 10 years, you have worked with many of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations and have written and spoken widely on the future of philanthropy. How is philanthropy changing in the U.S., especially with respect to funding nonprofits?
Fulton: As you know, modern philanthropy was founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Both of those gentlemen set out to give away all their money in their lifetimes (approximately 14 billion in today’s dollars) and found it was impossible to do effectively. Just imagine the mail delivery to their houses. They had to employ staffs to read the letters from people asking for money. And so they invented the institutional form of the foundation to take retail philanthropy, in which a person asks the donor for money, and give it a wholesale structure, in which an intermediary would take all the requests and manage and give the money away.
According to the most recent data, more than 75,000 philanthropic organizations in the U.S. gave away almost $300 billion. Nearly three-quarters of that comes from individuals and a significant portion still goes to religious institutions, such as churches and synagogues (although that proportion is slowly declining).
In terms of giving, The U.S. is generally considered to be the most generous nation in the world, with philanthropy accounting for 1.5-2 percent of GDP. To some degree that’s because we don’t have the same level of government social programs that other countries have. As a result, giving in Germany or France, for instance, is far lower as a percentage of GDP than it is here.
Nevertheless, the percentage of money that people give away has been basically flat for a very long time. The number goes up because people are richer or there are more rich people.
The Billionaires Effect
GBN: There certainly seem to be more very wealthy people today who are moving into philanthropy in very visible ways.
Fulton: One of the big trends is philanthropy is the increase in billionaires and “high net worth” individuals. In 1982, Forbes listed 13 billionaires in the U.S.; in 2010 there were 412. And that’s not just a function of inflation. We’ve just lived through one of the greatest wealth creation periods in history. Read more here
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The Class of 2013 Looks at California's
Past & Future at Session II
April 28-30, 2013
California’s Heritage:
Shaping California’s Future
Los Angeles
See all Session II Photos HERE
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A CELEBRATION OF LEADERSHIP - Honorees and honorary co-chairs of the 2013 Legacy of Leadership Awards posed with their awards just after the celebration on April 29.
See all the Awards photos HERE
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The class enjoyed a visit to Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, where they visited curated landscapes and fine art galleries and heard a presentation on California history from William Deverell, Ph.D., USC History Chair and Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West.
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The Huntington art collections belonged to Henry Huntington and his wife Arabella, who built a mansion to house them, amassed a fine library, and developed botanical gardens on their San Marino property early in the last century. |
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"California’s Diversity: One Family’s Story" was a personal account of three generations of a literary family with Ginger Rutland, (at left). Her mother Eva Rutland was a prolific writer of Harlequin romances. Ginger is an associate editor at the Sacramento Bee. |
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Led by Barbara Kaufman, Ph.D., (left), class members evaluated their individual personality traits and rated their leadership strengths according to a leadership styles index. Good leaders learn which style works best in each unique situation. |
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Mary O'Hara Devereaux, Ph.D., Founder & President, Global Foresight, gave an overview of California's demographics and a clear view into the future of our state with "People Crossing Generations, Cultures & Global Boundaries." |
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Thank You to Our Session II Sponsors
See all Session II Photos HERE
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Alumnae Meet with Israeli Women’s Delegation
The California Senate Office of International Relations (SOIR) has once again asked Leadership California to organize a group of CIT Alumnae to meet with a delegation of women from Israel who visited Sacramento in April.
Five Israeli women asked questions about women’s political leadership in the U.S. and the constitutional safeguards here that recognize and protect women’s rights. The women’s visit is part of a three-week U.S. Department of State-sponsored project.
Between the SOIR delegations and the U.S. Department of State’s “100 Women Initiative: Empowering Women and Girls through International Exchanges," the meeting marked the seventh event for Leadership California as the organization of choice to engage with international women's delegations.
Leadership California Alumnae participants were Kathryn Dresslar (’03), Tiffany Hunter Green (’12), Kate Killeen (’08), Debbie Manning (’02), and Ezilda Samoville (’08).
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