Community Foundations

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Community Foundations Local Infrastructure
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Agenda

• Introduction, Models and Definitions
• Case Study 1
• Reaching steady state..
• Case Study 2
• Community foundations set up by.
• Case Study 3
• Community foundations setting up..
• Lessons learning

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Introduction

• Sustainable change
• Fund work/projects
• Build organisations capacity
• Advocate/policy change
• New approaches
• Research
• Effective sector
• Projects
• Organisations
• Networks

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Model Impact
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Definitions Local Infrastructure
Representation
Financing
Capacity Building

• Success Factors
• Leverage money
• Leverage information

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Introduction, Models and Definitions

• Community foundation
• Philanthropic infrastructure
• Catalyst
• Partnership worker
• CVS
• Capacity building infrastructure
• Representation
• Catalyst
• Partnership worker
• Other infrastructure to be leveraged
• State
• Private sector

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Case Study 1 Reaching Steady State

• The history
• Respective roles
• Governance
• Value added
• Lessons and learning

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Case Study 2Community foundations set up by

• The community
• Community foundation never took off
• Strong CVS with substantial state funded grant
  making
• The opportunity
• Private sector philanthropy
• Grassroots Grants
• The strategy
• Absorb skeleton CF
• Assemble CF components
• Create effective community foundation
• Lessons and learning
• Legitimacy
• Operations

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Case Study 3Community foundations setting up

• The community
• Low capacity
• High incidence of deprivation
• Underfunded vs adjoining areas
• The community foundation
• 12m endowment, 150 donors
• Well established and aware of area
• Relationships with interested funders (private
  and statutory)
• Research revealed a weakness in infrastructure
• The challenge
• To build community capacity
• The strategy
• Funding and facilitation from the community
  foundation
• Support the development of a CVS
• Establish a resource centre
• Lessons and Learning
• Locality is important
• Joined up working powerful
• Bei9ng strategic requires staying power

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Lessons and Learning

• A three strand cord
• Opportunities /or mission creep
• Reality of private financing
• Dynamic environment
• Localism