Shift Happens: Understanding how the world is changing
Need help making sense of how your community is changing? The world is shifting rapidly and the pace of change is only increasing. For community philanthropy leaders who are focused on their own...
View ArticleLandscape Mapping: Understanding who’s doing what in your community
Curious to see which roles other community philanthropy organizations are (or aren’t) playing in your community? This exercise provides a structured process for understanding the shifting landscape of...
View ArticleBright Spots: Promising approaches in community philanthropy
Looking for new ideas and new ways of serving your community? Get inspired by the wide range of approaches that seem to be working in and around the field — what authors Chip and Dan Heath refer to as...
View ArticleThink Global: Lessons from community philanthropy around the world
Want to learn from what community philanthropy organizations around the globe are doing? International community foundations now outnumber those in the U.S., and have often developed without many of...
View ArticlePrioritizing Roles: Crafting your strategic portfolio
Struggling to prioritize which roles your organization should focus on? This card game will help you think about the portfolio of roles you play in your community in the context of your organization’s...
View ArticleFlipping Orthodoxies: Questioning ingrained assumptions in your work
Stuck in old ways of thinking? Sometimes, the greatest opportunities are hiding in plain sight. This card game will help you identify and flip deeply held, unstated and unquestioned assumptions about...
View ArticleGenerating New Ideas: A design workshop
Ready to brainstorm new ways to serve your community? This methodology and set of related exercises are tailored to spur creative new thinking about how your community philanthropy organization can do...
View ArticlePrototyping Solutions: A collaborative exercise
Want to figure out which new innovations show real promise? Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s putting them into practice that’s often the hard part. Prototyping allows you to quickly build out and...
View ArticleFacilitator Training Workshops
Community foundations and other place-based funders operate in an environment that is dramatically different from the one in which many of their current practices and structures were developed. As a...
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