Collaboration

Advocacy and Family Philanthropy: Leveraging Limited Dollars for Impact

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Aaron Dorfman, Abby Levine, Ashley Smith Juarez, Jenny Straub Corrigan, Regina McGraw

Why do family foundations choose to invest in these strategies to advance their mission? What kinds of impacts are they achieving, and how do they measure success? What legal parameters guide their advocacy grantmaking?… Read More

Building Trust to Promote Community Collaboration

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Dave Joseph, Elizabeth Jordan

Problems in a community can be hard to solve when the people involved don’t communicate with each other because of their conflicting values across religious, cultural, political, social and other divides. … Read More

Engaging Stakeholders for Better Grantmaking

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Courtney Bourns, Mary Walachy

We hear more and more these days about working with grantees as partners. But how is that really done? And does it truly make the work of your foundation more effective?… Read More

How Families with Family Foundations Work with Community Foundations

Posted on April 12, 2007 by Ellen Remmer, Stephen Johnson

Remmer and Johnson present their own experiences and address more generally how this can be an effective partnership - from the perspectives of the family, the family foundation and the community foundation… Read More

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