Daily Archives: 05/15/2009

(Community Matters) Today’s the Entrepreneurs Foundation’s annual Spring Service Day – 350 employees from 25 member companies gathering at Andrews Elementary for an Extreme Makeover. pics and more after

(Community Matters) Thoroughly enjoyed my hour with arts producer/agent John Riedie as he explained his vision for Springscape. John’s a visionary with great drive and ambition for our arts community. He represents many in town including composer/musician Graham Reynolds.

(Community Matters) Greenlight’s has completed a study on the number of nonprofits in Austin. They’ve identified 6,309 public charities in Central Texas and have compared them by size and subindustry to other Texas cities and peer communities. Fascinating report which is being finalized and was only previewed to a group of friends over lunch yesterday at the Leadership Austin offices. In attendance included Matt Kouri, Deborah Edwards, Chris Earthman, Dave Shaw, Heather McKissick, Andy White, KDK-Harman Foundation’s Jennifer Esterline & Erica Ekwurzel, Lucy Glenn and several other foundation reps and founders. excellent information and good debate on interpretation – look forward to the full report publicly very soon. I’ve promised not to publish details since still being completed and not yet released publicly.

(Community Matters) Attended the Charles Moore Foundation annual Chuck Wagon dinner with Tim McCabe last night. Super to see so many friends including CMF exec director Kevin Keim, Quality Quinn, Miguel Rivera, Peter & Ryan Cooper, Eric Harslem, Ann Clark, Davis Niendorff, Thomas and, oh, I don’t know 80 or 90 others.

. . . followed by an art opening/introduction at Jeff & Deanna Serra’s home. They held a party for Edward Povey. Many friends there as well including Cookie Ruiz, Robert Faries, Michael Barnes, Janet Maykus, Mark Smith, Dana Friisen-Hansen and Mark Holzbach. Super visit with Jeff.