Our IQ Magazine recently won a Gold Award from the Council on Foundation's Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications!
We were named the best magazine/periodical in North America among foundations with up to $100 million in assets. Our nomination included the following issues:
• Winter '08 (early childhood mental health)
• Spring '09 (Initiative Award winners/philanthropy)
• Summer '09 (manufacturing)
• Fall '09 (employment)
Judges evaluated all entries based on the following criteria: - Overall outcomes/impact
- Message and design effectiveness
- Organization of content
- Outreach/distribution strategies
According to the Council on Foundations’ website, “The awards, which originated in 1984, showcase the ways foundations and corporate giving programs use communications strategies and techniques to advance their grantmaking goals.” An award ceremony took place yesterday morning at their annual conference in Denver, Colorado.
Thank you and congrats to our IQ Team for all of their hard work!
Kathy Gaalswyk, Initiative Foundation president, just told us about a website that shows how unemployment rates have evolved over the last few years. As you'll see, it's gotten darker and darker - not only in Minnesota, but nationwide.
Will the future be brighter? We sure hope so.
Our latest issue of IQ focuses on this exact topic - sharing the latest employment trends as well as inspiring stories about everyday people doing what they can to make ends meet.
And DEED just came out with the October unemployment numbers (something we weren't able to include in IQ) - rates increased from 7.4% in September to 7.6%. Central Minnesota actually saw a slight improvement though, dropping from a regional average of 7.9% to 7.8%.
But that still leaves 30,613 people in the 14 county area without jobs!
We still have a long ways to go so please read and share some IQ...
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