Can community foundations learn, if given the opportunity, to be effective vehicles for channeling support to low-income neighborhood organizations while increasing their own resources, grantmaking skills, and leadership role in the community? That was the question […]
“Building Community Capacity: The Potential of Community Foundations” tells how small community foundations can get bigger, stronger, and more useful to their communities. This small book, endorsed as essential reading in the field, summarizes the […]
This series of magazines, modeled on “Inc. – The Magazine for Growing Companies” was distributed to all community foundations in the country, and was a big hit with staff and board members, with short and […]
Growth Factors in Community Foundation Development details critical pieces of effective philanthropy. In September 1982, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation made the first of four grants to the Council on Foundations to provide technical assistance to […]
Stephen D. Mittenthal, Ph.D., the former President of the Arizona Community Foundation, taught me a lot about effective philanthropy and good grantmaking. He holds that a good grant achieves two purposes: It should allow the […]
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