Community Foundations & Local Infrastructure

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

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

Model – Impact Organisation Networks Project

Definitions – Local Infrastructure Capacity Building Financing Representation Success Factors Leverage money Leverage information

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

Case Study 1: Reaching Steady State  The history  Respective roles  Governance  Value added  Lessons and learning

Case Study 2: Community 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

Case Study 3: Community 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

Lessons and Learning  A three strand cord  Opportunities &/or mission creep  Reality of private financing  Dynamic environment  Localism