What process is being used to develop a Community Leadership Theory of Change for Individual Community Foundations…and what is its status?

• A Community Leadership Theory of Change for Individual Community Foundations (TOC-ICF) is being produced by the National Task Force on Community Leadership (view member list). The TOC-ICF is not yet complete, but work is on schedule. Steps taken to date are:
• The NTF engaged in wide-ranging discussions at a September 2007 two-day retreat to surface elements that might be germane to a TOC-ICF.
• CFLeads staff and consultants used the NTF’s work to build out a first draft of the first three levels of the TOC-ICF: Ultimate Outcome and the First-Level and Second-Level Precondition building blocks.
• The NTF provided comments on that draft during a December work session. Many issues were raised and concerns voiced. Those comments have not yet been integrated into a new draft – the attached version is the original.

Steps yet to be taken include:

• The NTF will reach out to surface comments from anyone in the field who wishes to weigh in. (That’s what this invitation is!)
• An NTF Work Group will meet with CFLeads staff in the coming weeks to fine-tune this draft. They will then develop third-level preconditions, and identify embedded assumptions/hypotheses and weak or broken links. Note: The TOC’s third level is
  likely where the most “actionable” elements will emerge. The target completion date is early June.
• And, once the TOC-ICF is completed, it will be used as the basis for developing a related Community Leadership Theory of Change for the Community Foundation Field as a whole.