Maximize the potential of place and catalyzing of resources for your community.
Co-hosted by the Council on Foundations and the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Speakers and participants will include experts from the Council on Foundations, the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and Indiana philanthropic and economic development institutions.
Taking Community Leadership to the next level for Community Foundations
Community development improves lives and builds prosperity by maximizing the potential of a place. Combine this with the role of catalyzing and raising resources from a community on behalf of a community, a Community Foundation can capitalize on its unique role as a convener, grantmaker, and endowment builder for greater community prosperity with simple practices taken from community and economic development strategies.
Do you see complexity in your work and seek strategies to adapt yourself, organization and community for the difficult work of social change?
Making financial capital available is important; exercising leadership is fundamental. Community philanthropy’s focus, skill, and experience matter more than money.
The workshop will include themes of grantmaking in economic development, community engaged collective impact, adaptive leadership, and a basic impact investing models. Do you aspire to exercise leadership in pursuit of the opportunities and challenges at hand? Attend this session to voice your assumptions, create energy for the work from your colleagues, and explore practical tools for mobilizing people, clarifying what matters most, and creating impact.
Attendees will explore, analyze, and discover new ways to strengthen their understanding of this work with peers, network with professionals in this space, and hear promising community development strategies to lead to greater opportunities for foundation growth and impact in your community.
Speakers
- John Cochrane, independent consultant on social innovation and impact investing
- Andy Fraizer, Executive Director of Prosperity Indiana and member, National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations
- Lara Kalwinski, JD, Senior Counsel, Compliance & Policy, Council on Foundations, and Executive Director, U.S. Community Foundation National Standards
- Mark Sidel, JD, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Visiting Chair in Community Foundations at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy; Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Member, Council on Foundations Community Foundations National Standards Board
- Brad Ward, Director, Community Philanthropy, Council on Foundations
The workshop will be moderated by Mark Sidel, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Visiting Chair in Community Foundations, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at , and Brad Ward, Director, Community Philanthropy, Council on Foundations.
Agenda
8:00–9:00 am — Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00–9:10 am — Opening Remarks
- Patrick Rooney, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
- Brad Ward, Council on Foundations
- Mark Sidel, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
9:15–10:25 am — Community Engaged Collective Impact and Economic Development
- Andy Fraizer, Prosperity Indiana
- Michael Eggleston, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank
- Moderator: Brad Ward, Council on Foundations
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10:25–10:40 am — Break
10:40–11:50 am — The Legal and Regulatory Framework for Grantmaking for Economic Development
- Lara Kalwinski, Council on Foundations
- Toby Rittner, Council of Development Finance Agencies
- Moderator: Mark Sidel, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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12:00–1:00 pm — Lunch
1:00–2:10 pm — Community Foundation Impact Investing
- John Cochrane, independent consultant
- Katie Kramer, Council of Development Finance Agencies
- Moderator: Brad Ward, Council on Foundations
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2:10–2:25 pm — Break
2:25–3:45 pm — Adaptive Leadership: Comprehensive Community Approach
- Andy Fraizer, Prosperity Indiana
- Terri Johnson, Indiana Philanthropy Alliance
- Moderator: Mark Sidel, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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3:45 – 4:15 pm — Wrapping Up and Moving Forward!
- Moderator: Tony Macklin, Impact Finance Center
Event Resources
Community and Economic Development is part of a broader framework of community leadership by a community foundation. To ensure a readiness to have a conversation specific to community and economic development, it is recommended to pre-read Framework for Community Leadership by a Community Foundation in advance of the workshop.
A sample of resources for economic development by community foundations:
- A New Anchor Mission for a New Century - the Democracy Collaborative's report on how 30 community foundations were catalyzing economic development
- A Search for Synergy in Community Foundations - The Philanthropic Initiative's report on how community foundations are blending community leadership, asset development, and donor engagement activities.
- BALLE Community Foundation Circles - an 18-month intensive learning experience for foundations interested in directly aligning their investments with their community missions.
- BALLE Local Economy Framework - 8 practical strategies to create healthier, more equitable economies, including a Guide to Community Capital that defines financing tools.
- Capital Absorption Self-Assessment Tool - Living Cities' guide to understanding a community's ability to attract, use, and leverage private, public, and philanthropic investments
- Laying the Groundwork for a National Impact Investing Marketplace - article on how the Impact Finance Center developed a regional marketplace of investors and investees
- Measuring Community Capacity Building - a practical toolkit for rural communities by the Aspen Institute
- Center for Community Investment - resource center at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will explore leadership development, research and capacity building initiative to help communities mobilize capital to achieve their economic, social and environmental priorities. It is supported by The Kresge Foundation, which includes a host of resources.
- Navigating The Territory: A Guide To Impact Investing For Donors - this guide, produced by the Philanthropic Initiative, will help you learn the different options you have for aligning your financial assets with your social goals to help for-profit and non-profit social benefit organizations become stronger and more sustainable.
- DAFs, PRIs, L3cs - Tools of Social Impact Investing - developed by Americans For Community Development, which suggests the solution to many of our problems is low cost seed money with CFs being in a great position to provide it.
- Driving Impact Through Donor Advised Fund - Exploring critical issues of how community foundations are leveraging donor advised funds and their assets as catalysts for impact investing.
