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Community foundations' individual success stories can help to demonstrate the philanthropic sector’s impact as a whole, as well as the specific, innovative, real-life solutions you are using every day. Showcasing these achievements while highlighting the unique role fulfilled by community…
Jim Mayfield is board president at The Community Foundation of Mendocino County.
Whether you're interacting with the media or marketing to members of your local community, these tools and resources can help shape your messages and demonstrate your value.
Community Foundation Week- Every year the Council creates a toolkit for community foundations to use in promoting…
In an earlier post, Susanne Norgard, executive director of The Community Foundation of Mendocino County (where I serve as board president), mentioned that no board member “walks into a community foundation fully understanding what we do and the impact we can make.” She’s right:…
Josie Burke is director of communications for El Pomar Foundation. For more information on disaster grantmaking visit the Council’s Disaster Center.
The Council on Foundations maintains a no-solicitation policy covering all of its conferences, meetings, webinars and other events. In order to provide a distraction-free environment for our members and other attendees, we do not allow solicitation of any kind during any event, including asking for…
El Pomar Foundation began preparing to respond to one of the worst natural disasters in Colorado history 10 years before the first sign of smoke in Waldo Canyon. In June 2002, the Hayman fire ripped through four Colorado counties, consuming more than 137,000 acres. While those flames were still…
News from the Hill
Nonprofit Leaders Urge Congress to Act on Extenders
On Wednesday, the Council on Foundations and Independent Sector organized a briefing with the House and Senate Philanthropy Caucuses on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to take immediate action on making permanent the three…