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Community Foundations and Donor Priorities: Where the Search for Synergy Stands Today Feb 19, 2020 Through some of our recent work with community foundations, we’ve identified several trends in the field that we think will continue to gain momentum in 2020, including leadership through systems...

Systems Philanthropy: A Leadership Opportunity for Community Foundations Jan 08, 2020 This is Part 1 in a series we're doing on community foundations this year. Stay tuned for Part 2, due out soon! --- Through some of our recent work with community foundations, we’ve identified...

Foundation and Donor Priorities Report

A Search for Synergy in Community Foundations Sep 14, 2015 There is an oft cited mantra within the community foundation field that a foundation must choose between being “community centric” and “donor centric” – in other words, between focusing on foundation...

Adventures in Giving Jun 22, 2015 How do you learn how to be an effective donor? What if you could just take a pill, or a quiz, and learn all that you needed to know to make sure your gifts were deployed wisely, strategically and...

Launching a Guide, Growing a Field Sep 25, 2013 This is very cool. At the Council on Foundations Community Foundations conference three years ago, GPS Capital Partners and TPI invited interested community foundations to come together for a...

What Business Do Community Foundations Have In Business? May 10, 2012 What business does a community foundation have hawking for-profit deals to its donors and other community members? How does it improve the quality of life in their community? How does it promote the...

What are ships for? Jan 11, 2012 Since announcing our merger with The Boston Foundation a few weeks ago, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about why we merged, how it will work and what might change. We’ve received many notes of...

I Found the Globe in my Backyard Oct 06, 2010 Just in case you fell asleep thirty years ago and didn’t notice, we are a truly global society and even the most local philanthropist ignores that reality at her own peril. Just to be clear – I am...

Philanthropy in Ireland: Promising Opportunities Jun 17, 2010 Despite the current challenges faced by the philanthropy sector in the Republic of Ireland and Norther Ireland, there are many promising and exciting developments which could be built upon. From my...