2005 Community Foundation Global Status Report

In 1999 the International Programs department of the Council on Foundations and the newly-formed Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support-Community Foundations (WINGS-CF) sponsored a project to track for the first time the global development of community foundations. This resulted in 2000 in the publication of The Growth of Community Foundations Around the World. In 2003, WINGS-CF reshaped and updated the report to focus on international community foundation trends and developments since the previous report. It became the first in a series of three annual reports

2004 Community Foundation Global Status Report

In 1999 the International Programs department of the Council on Foundations and the newly-formed Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support -- Community Foundations (WINGS-CF) sponsored a project to track for the first time the global development of community foundations. This resulted in 2000 in the publication of "The Growth of Community Foundations Around the World". In 2003, WINGS-CF and the Council on Foundations reshaped and updated the report to focus on international community foundation trends and developments since the previous report

International Connections: Resources That Support the Growth and Development of Community Foundations Globally

Documents international linkages between, and support for, the promotion and development of community foundations. Identifies gaps in funding and support

Community Foundations: Symposium On a Global Movement: Current Issues For the Global Community Foundation Movement

This report documents some of the key elements of "Community Foundations: Symposium on a Global Movement", the first global meeting for people involved in community foundations. The sessions dealt with the changing world in which community foundations operate; the role foundations play globally,and roles for community foundations. Additional resources are included

El Crecimento de las Fundaciones Comunitarias en el Mundo: Un Análisis de la Vitalidad del Movimiento de Fundaciones Comunitarias

This is the first of a series of reports on international community foundation trends and developments which are published annually by WINGS-CF under the heading of Community Foundation Global Status Reports

Serving a Wider Community: Community Foundations' Use of Geographic Component Funds and Other Strategies and Structures to Cover Territory

Community foundations operating in different countries are subject to their own legal and tax systems governing nonprofits and foundations. Structures developed under one country's legal and tax systems are less important than the concepts and philosophy behind how community foundations cover territory. Community foundations can take the ideas and models presented here and adapt them to fit their local needs and circumstances

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe

The Growing Importance of Community Foundations

With 2014 marking the centenary of the first U.S. community foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, this publication details the historical origins of community foundations in the United States. Additionally, it provides a better understanding of what they are, what they do, and provides insight to their role in the future

The Growing Importance of Community Foundations

With 2014 marking the centenary of the first U.S. community foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, this publication details the historical origins of community foundations in the United States. Additionally, it provides a better understanding of what they are, what they do, and provides insight to their role in the future

The Impact of culturable bacterial community on histopathology in chronic rhinosinusitis

Background: The influence of the microbial community on inflammatory subtype in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) has been proposed. Superantigen mechanisms potentially create a T helper 2 (Th-2)/eosinophilic dominated inflammation as a product of local flora rather than an intrinsic mucosal process. The associations between culturable bacteria and the histopathology and clinical features of CRS patients are described. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving patients with CRS undergoing surgery was undertaken. Middle meatal swabs were performed at surgery for microbiological evaluation. Mucosal biopsies were taken and a blinded histopathological profile was performed. Disease specific quality of life and nasal symptom scores were recorded. The presence of culturable organisms and particular pathogens were compared with histopathology and clinical outcomes. Results: A total of 95 patients were assessed (48.4% female, mean age 45.6 ± 14.0 years), of which 47.3% had a culturable organism. Tissue eosinophilia (>10/high-power field [HPF]) was found in 46.1% of these patients and 30.3% had neutrophilic infiltrate, with the presence of neither Gram-positive organisms, Gram-negative organisms, nor species correlating to pathology subtype. A culturable pathogen was a predictor of subepithelial fibrosis (X² = 6.36, p = 0.04) and Gram-negative bacteria had the strongest association (X² = 18.82, p > 0.01). There were no other significant associations with other clinical outcomes. Conclusion: The culturable bacterial community has little impact on histopathology in CRS. While more sensitive tests may detect bacteria in the sinuses, the impact of the simple "culturable" bacteria on the underlying pathologic process is limited. Changes, such as subepithelial fibrosis, suggest colonization may lead to undesirable local mucosal damage and remodeling.5 page(s