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Building Bridges: A Guide to Centering Community Perspective

A downloadable toolkit featuring real life examples, tips, tools, and resources for those committed to deepening the way they engage communities they care about in their work.

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Sharing Power with Communities: A Field Guide

This field guide offers practical tips and examples to help you authentically engage and share power with the communities most impacted by your work.

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Field Guide: Making Capacity Building More Equitable

Many funders grapple with what it can look like to make capacity-building offerings more equitable. This field guide offers ways to rethink capacity building with equity at the center.

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Community Foundation Funding Practices

As community foundations stretch in new ways to respond to community needs, many are thinking differently about their role, their value proposition to donors, and how they assess impact.

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Field Guide: Stakeholder Engagement

Strategies are stronger when we engage a diverse set of people in shaping solutions. This field guide will help you begin the strategy process with a clear understanding of which stakeholders you want to engage, why their input matters, and how you will engage them. 

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Article: Bolder Goals, Bigger Breakthroughs

(Stanford Social Innovation Review) Six years ago, we set bold goals. Yet we still haven't put ourselves out of business. So what good is it to aim high? Our experience suggests that nonprofits that set their sights higher can achieve more.

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Building Bridges: A Guide to Centering Community Perspective

A downloadable toolkit featuring real life examples, tips, tools, and resources for those committed to deepening the way they engage communities they care about in their work….

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Nourishing the Healthy Food Access System: The Story of the Healthy Food Community of Practice

A csase study of the Healthy Food Community of Practice written by Engage R+D…

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Healthy Food Community of Practice Summary Report

Through three key outcome areas, this report provides a summary of the progress made by the Healthy Food Community of Practice during their time together. …

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Participatory Grantmaking: A Tool for Deeper Relationships & Impact in Communities

This report offers a detailed summary of how the Healthy Food Community of Practice shifted power and resources through a participatory grantmaking process and tool that deepened their impact,…

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Networks for Education Equity Community of Practice Overview

Activites and outcomes from a community of practice focused on supporting better outcomes for Black and Latino students and students experiencing poverty. …

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A Network Approach to Educator Support

This report synthesizes key takeaways from the Networks for Education Equity cohort facilitated by Community Wealth Partners. …

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Activating Donors for Change: Five Themes from Community Foundations

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Case Study: The Pittsburgh Foundation–What’s possible when program and donor services teams work together toward shared goals

For the Pittsburgh Foundation, intentional integration of the teams on key areas of work has led to more engaged donors and more dollars moved to make positive change happen in its community. …

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Sharing Power with Communities: A Field Guide

This field guide offers practical tips and examples to help you authentically engage and share power with the communities most impacted by your work….

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COVID-19 Resources

Resources to navigate challenges and seize opportunities raised by the pandemic….

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Field Guide: Making Capacity Building More Equitable

Many funders grapple with what it can look like to make capacity-building offerings more equitable. This field guide offers ways to rethink capacity building with equity at the center. …

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Community Foundation Funding Practices

As community foundations stretch in new ways to respond to community needs, many are thinking differently about their role, their value proposition to donors, and how they assess impact. …

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Community-Based Organizations & High-Capacity Donors: Relationships, Perceptions, & Behaviors

Our research on donors’ motivations and philanthropic practices that affect their grantmaking and how they build and maintain relationships with nonprofits…

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Field Guide: Stakeholder Engagement

Strategies are stronger when we engage a diverse set of people in shaping solutions. This field guide will help you begin the strategy process with a clear understanding of which stakeholders you want…

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Three Factors of Sustainability

Why organizations need to examine their social impact, economic viability, and capacity to deliver in order to remain relevant and viable both now and into the future….

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Field Guide: Earned-Revenue Strategies

Earned revenue is one strategy that can give organizations more financial stability and help strengthen an organization’s impact. This field guide is for nonprofits considering earned-revenue…

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Case Study: Building Nonprofit Capacity to Achieve Greater Impact: Lessons From the U.S.-Mexico Border

(Foundation Review) Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas saw firsthand the needs of grantees when it partnered with eight community-health organizations through its Sí Texas initiative and,…

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Case Study: Strengthening the Ecosystem of Capacity-Building Service Providers

(Foundation Review) When the Kresge Foundation designed a program to build leadership capacity through a racial equity lens among its grantees, it wanted to strengthen the marketplace of offerings as…

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Podcast: Making Change through Coalitions

In this two-part series, Community Wealth Partners’ president Sara Brenner talks with Vitalyst Health Foundation’s Spark podcast. In part one, she shares the four stages of the Social…

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Article: Bolder Goals, Bigger Breakthroughs

(Stanford Social Innovation Review) Six years ago, we set bold goals. Yet we still haven’t put ourselves out of business. So what good is it to aim high? Our experience suggests that nonprofits that…

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Capacity Building Insights

Five elements in successful capacity-building approaches…

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Field Guide: Creating a Change-Making Culture

How to make tending your organization’s culture more actionable and concrete…

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Case Study: Advancing Racial Equity Through Capacity Building

The Kresge Foundation’s talent and leadership development efforts…

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Field Guide: Creating a Partnership Strategy

How to make partnerships meaningful and effective…

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Article: When Good Is Not Good Enough

(Stanford Social Innovation Review) Bold goals, while harder to achieve, provide long-term solutions by tackling the root of social problems…

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Case Study: Community-Led Change

How the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation builds the capacity of nonprofits and communities to shape neighborhoods together…

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Tool: Social Transformation Lifecycle

Transformational efforts often progress through a common set of stages…

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Field Guide: Making Network-Based Strategy Work

How to create and implement strategy across a network…

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Case Study: Strengthening Fundraising Capacity

How the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund is supporting innovation…

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Field Guide: Where to Start When Setting a Bold Goal

This field guide helps you set a bold goal — the first step in pushing beyond incremental progress toward transformational change — and includes frameworks, examples, and questions….

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Field Guide: Intentional Influence

Tactics for overcoming barriers to action…

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Article: Internal Culture, External Impact

(The Foundation Review) How a Change-Making Culture Positions Foundations to Achieve Transformational Change…

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Case Study: Building Capacity to Influence Public Policy

How the Annie E. Casey Foundation is equipping nonprofits to advocate more effectively…

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Article: Cocreating a Change-Making Culture

(Stanford Social Innovation Review) When collaboratives get intentional about culture, they can more quickly and more effectively tackle social problems…

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Case Study: Catalyzing Collaboration and Innovation

How the Ralph. C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation is taking a networked approach to building nonprofit capacity…

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Article: The Strength of Social Enterprise

(Stanford Social Innovation Review) As government and philanthropic funding becomes unpredictable and markets evolve, some nonprofits can succeed with social enterprise….

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Articles: The Value of Intentional Influence

(Stanford Social Innovation Review) Influence is potentially the most valuable—yet least utilized—currency a social sector organization holds. …

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