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Learning from the Future: A Resource for Planning Ahead
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The Economic Scenario Planning (ESP) model is designed to help community foundations of any size and shape create five-year forecasts and plan for multiple scenarios. Community foundations using the model cite important benefits, often revising goals or making operating model changes as a result…
Fueling Impact: A Fresh Look at Business Model Innovation and New Revenue Sources
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Do you want to know how community foundations are finding innovative new sources of support, and diversifying their revenue base? How new revenue sources strengthen each community foundation's differentiation and sustainability? Difficult economic times in 2008-2010 have been an important wake-up…
Benchmarking Beyond Asset Size Top 100 Lists - FY 2010
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In this publication, CF Insights highlights attributes that characterize community foundations in ways beyond asset values.
2010 Columbus Survey participants are ranked based on:
Most Active Grantmakers—distribution rates, with percent of donor-advised assets
Most Gifts per Capita—gifts per…
Trends Across the Community Foundation Field: Columbus Survey 2010 Results: Guideposts Point to Growth
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Provides a snapshot of community foundation asset growth and activity during 2010. Findings are based on over 250 community foundation responses to a Columbus Foundation survey as of March 2011. Looks at trends, grantmaking, operating expenses, and other metrics.
2009 Columbus Survey Results: Guideposts on the Path to Recovery
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With this report, "Guideposts on the Path to Recovery," CF Insights' aim is to share 2009 highlights following a February 2009 report that looked in depth at 2008 results. This report is based on over 200 community foundations' contributions to the Columbus Survey as of March 2010.
Taking Informed Action in Challenging Times: Helping Community Foundations during Economic Downturn
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Following up on CF Insights' November 2008 report "Making Informed Decisions in Uncertain Times", this report is aimed at helping community foundations take informed action in relation to their operating models and community activities in reaction to the economic slump. The findings are based on…
Raising Money While Raising Hell: Catalytic Community Leadership and Successful Fundraising for Community Foundations
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This paper debunks the myth that advocacy-oriented community leadership is naturally antithetical to fundraising, and highlights examples where foundations have built their fundraising efforts by playing advocacy-oriented community leadership roles.
2009 Columbus Survey of Community Foundations: List of Top 100 Community Foundations by Asset Size
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Includes results of the 2009 Columbus Survey of Community Foundations that pertain to the top 100 community foundations by asset size. The table includes the community foundation name, amount of assets at the time of the survey, and fiscal year-end (FYE).
2008 Columbus Survey Results: Guideposts for Growth and Grantmaking
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This report, developed from Columbus Survey data, highlights trends in common metrics across the community foundation field. The report provides 2008 results. This field-wide data begins to answer the question of how community foundations have fared in the economic crisis. It is important to…
CF Insights
What if each community foundation could know what all community foundations collectively know? The only benchmarking tool of its kind, designed specifically for community foundations. Assess the sustainability of your operations, performance, and growth over time compared to peers, and see the latest national snapshot tracking financial trends across the field.
Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Report (GSB)
Since 1980, the Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Report has provided the sector with the most comprehensive data on staff composition and compensation in the United States. Grantmakers rely on this annual report to inform budgeting, talent recruitment and retention strategies, and personnel policies and practices.
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