CFLeads: Community Foundations Leading Change

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Community Change Makers:
The Leadership Roles of Community Foundations
(2004) by Chapin Hall and the Program on Philanthropy and Community Change.
Based on a series of meetings organized by the Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth with a group of senior, community foundation leaders, this publication discusses the ways in which community foundations' unique access, agility, credibility, and local knowledge places them in a pivotal position at the center of community life and describes how community foundations throughout the US are using their position to develop and expand their leadership roles.

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On the Brink of New Promise:
The Future of U.S. Community Foundations

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This report captures the findings of the first phase of the future of community philanthropy project. It examines the changing environment for community philanthropy and its implications for community foundations. It posits that U.S. community foundations have entered a pivotal new era that may hold surprises as significant as was the introduction of commercial charitable gift funds in the early 1990s.