Community Leadership

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Tri-State CF Partnership Webinar | Being the Change: A Look at the Report

Publication date: 
02/2019

In April 2018, FSG released the Being the Change report, which outlined 12 ways foundations are transforming themselves to transform impact. Built from interviews with over 100 practitioners in the field, the report highlights strategies that foundations might undertake to transform their internal practices to reflect the complex work they are doing externally. Join this webinar to learn more about the report and recommendations from FSG.

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Harwood Institute Turning Outward Training

Publication date: 
01/2019

In this webinar, Harwood’s Vice President for Promise and Impact, Damien Conners, will highlight the resources and capacity-building opportunities Harwood can offer Indiana community foundations as they seek to more deeply understand, and play a role in responding to, the shared challenges and opportunities of their communities. Our partners such as United Way Worldwide, Tallahatchie River Foundation, and individual communities are using our approach to develop innovative programs, forge boundary-spanning partnerships, and shift their cultures and organizations to be more Turned Outward - where the community is the reference point for making decisions. These changes lead to greater relevance, impact, increased funding and improved investment strategies.

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e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystem’s (formerly Center for Rural Entrepreneurship) Webinar

Publication date: 
01/2019

Don Macke, formerly with the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship and now with e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and NetWork Kansas explores a promising national development framework called Prosperity Communities and the roles that community foundations can play in simulating and supporting community prosperity.

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CF Leads Webinar

Publication date: 
01/2019

CFLeads President and CEO Deborah Ellwood and past program participants Chris Barge, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Community Foundation Boulder County and Juanita James, President & CEO, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation discuss CFLeads as the only national organization focused solely on community foundations and offering a range of customizable learning opportunities available to strengthen community leadership capacity, including:

  • Consulting
  • Introduction to Community Leadership
  • Executive Leadership Institute for CEOs
  • Community Leadership Network; and
  • Issue Networks
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GIFT VII Consultant Resources

Publication date: 
01/2019

In October 2018, Lilly Endowment Inc. announced GIFT VII, a major new initiative for community foundations.  Lilly Endowment has supported the development and growth of Indiana community foundations for over 25 years. 

A significant new element of this initiative is a focus on community leadership.  In 2019, each community foundation will receive at least $50,000 for community leadership planning work.  The Endowment is also open to community foundations using some of the grant for internal capacity building in preparation for community leadership work.  This webinar is directed to Indiana consultants who may be interested in working with one or more community foundations in this exciting initiative.

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