Peer Event

Strengthening Community: Finding Synergies in Leadership and Donor Engagement

Leadership attracts assets and each day community foundations are maximizing opportunities in the community for growth and impact. Yet, community foundations are still grappling with ways to prioritize and balance community leadership and donor engagement, as well as how to finance and measure their work inclusive of all organizational investments beyond traditional grantmaking and convening. And, to do this work with even greater speed, sophistication, and coordinated effort across the organization and community.

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Date & Time

Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 7:30 am ET to

Friday, October 14, 2016 - 12:00 pm ET

Location

Community Foundation of Louisville
325 W Main St #1110
Louisville, KY 40202

Hotel Reservations

Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Louisville
100 South Second Street
Louisville, KY 40202

To make reservations, please contact the hotel reservation department by calling 502-562-0200 and mention Council on Foundations .

The special group rate for the event is $165 per night (price does not include taxes and fees). The cut-off date to receive the group rate is Monday, September 26, 2016 .

Cost

$299

This event is only open to Council members.

Join the Council on Foundations with its partner, The Philanthropic Initiative, for a member-only workshop for community foundations where we will explore ways you can maximize your foundation’s impact by leveraging community resources in and outside of your foundation.

Ellen Remmer and Amy Zell Ellsworth from The Philanthropic Initiative, an operating unit of the Boston Foundation, bring extensive research, analysis, and case studies to advance the community foundation field in exploring the space for co-investment among donors and the foundation, as well as impact investing models and more. They will facilitate and guide this learning forum to maximize the workshop and networking among our members.

Exploring the synergies in leadership, engagement, and impact investing, you will walk away equipped with a framework to coordinate the efforts of donors, nonprofits, citizens, government, and other partners in order to pool your resources for greater effect. You will learn how to engage donors to invest endowment funds and what role impact investing can play in community leadership.

Participants will hear from their peers about what is and isn’t working and what they hope to achieve through adopting co-investment. Participants will also learn what adopting such strategies might mean for an organization’s infrastructure and how to achieve board buy-in.

Our goal is to have participants able to act on the lessons they learned and leave the workshop having identified specific, actionable next steps to take.

What we will explore:

New and emerging approaches to community advancement
Engaging the whole foundation, including the board
How to advance donor-foundation partnerships and private-public partnerships in your community
What role impact investing can play in donor engagement
The role of advocacy within the community foundation field

What you will walk away with: