Catherine Porter, in this guide for place-based foundations interested in engaging in climate change, offers strategies for understanding the current situation and opportunities for action. She features a number of voices from funders already working in this area.
Examples From The Field
2 Pages
2007
The Fairfield County Community Foundation has become a strong leader and role model—breaking down silos among housing, workforce development, and transportation.
Examples From The Field, Special Report
39 Pages
2007
Mark Valentine and Desiree Vargas of Arabella Philanthropic Advisors explore the current demand for green buildings; roles that public and private sectors have played in catalyzing that demand; mounting pressure for city officials, architects, and engineers to respond to the threats posed by climate change; the current state of green building practices; and the roles that philanthropy can play.
Translation Paper
12 Pages
2007
Kathleen Blaha, formerly of The Trust for Public Land, describes how new strategies that link parks and greenspace with community development, public health, social justice, access, and opportunity are leading to better decisions about how and where communities grow. She describes philanthropic leadership on these issues, and points to eight funder strategies that support the role parks and green space play in building communities.
Examples From The Field, Special Report
12 Pages
2006
Based on interviews with 12 community foundations from across North America, this report describes new ways that community foundations are improving the areas in which they live and do their work. By taking on issues such as jobs, economic development, land use, transportation, housing, urban/suburban equity (and disparities), and conservation—many community foundations have created powerful levers for improving their local communities, and their own institutions.
Consultant Noreen Beatley explains why enactment of green building and energy policies now is essential to community sustainability. She describes a series of green building policies currently employed across the country, providing an overview of where some green policies have been enacted and the steps jurisdictions have taken to enact them.
Special Report
27 Pages
2007
A team from the Center for Neighborhood Technology describes the relationship between the housing market and markets for energy and transportation and how these markets affect households and the environment. The paper offers funders a perspective on the relationship between housing issues (affordable housing, specifically), transportation and energy use, and environmental impacts and highlights best practices for consideration.
Special Report
2 Pages
2007
A list of 10 ways that community foundations and other place-based funders can address climate change through local action.
Special Report
4 Pages
2007
This statement from the Funders’ Network affirms our belief that reversing global warming must include better land-use solutions. It describes what the Network, in collaboration with others, intends to do to encourage philanthropic leadership in climate change solutions.
Examples From The Field
12 Pages
2005
Gary Moll and Jeff Olson from American Forests provide a road map and tools for improving urban environments and making cities better places to live by fitting natural resources more effectively into city infrastructure. City trees comprise an urban forest that can be thought of as a city’s green infrastructure.
