The Funders’ Network exists to inspire, strengthen and expand funding and philanthropic leadership that yield environmentally sustainable, socially equitable and economically prosperous regions and communities.
The Vancouver Foundation approaches growth and livability issues in a holistic manner, piecing together a tapestry of grantmaking, innovation, and leadership efforts over the range of related issues.
Examples From The Field|Special Report
82 Pages
2004
Consultant Victoria Eisen profiles over two dozen North American community foundations active in livable communities work. It includes case studies of each foundation's effort to help shape the future of its community. The report concludes with advice from leaders in the field and steps that other community foundations can take to start similar work in their own communities.
Examples From The Field|Special Report
116 Pages
2004
Consultant Julia Parzen presents 19 stories from foundations that demonstrate the strategic use of varying types of investments a foundation can make toward supporting more thoughtful real estate investment in a region as well as how a foundation might approach such investment.
Examples From The Field
4 Pages
2003
Because of its commitment to a place, the Rauch Foundation has played a key role as a smart growth catalyst on Long Island –initiating, accelerating, leveraging, collaborating, partnering, and convening.
Examples From The Field
5 Pages
2002
A summary of the Surdna Foundation’s special initiative on smart growth and community livability in New Jersey, Maryland, New Mexico, and the Salt Lake City region. The intent was to foster good examples of smart growth in a variety of geographic and organizational contexts and share learning. Here’s a longer, 122-page 'lessons learned' report on this initiative entitled 5Livability and Smart Growth.
The Inspiring Places initiative of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation seeks to develop and maintain a system of great parks in Atlanta. It’s a continuation of the foundation’s previous $19.2 million investment in local open space acquisition.
Special Report
48 Pages
2004
Consultant Victoria Eisen describes the roles that community foundations can play in building better communities, offers corresponding examples from community foundations engaged in this work, and outlines resources that are available to help
Examples From The Field
5 Pages
2003
Featured are approaches from two Louisiana community foundations. The Greater New Orleans Foundation promotes regional smart growth and economic development by its participation in the MetroVision Partnership's Top 10 By 2010 project. The Baton Rouge Area Foundation has taken a “demonstration project” approach to smart growth, focusing on a major downtown revitalization effort known as Plan Baton Rouge.
Examples From The Field
3 Pages
2002
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s People and Land program funds a process that builds local, regional, and multi-sector consensus around issues of growth and development. The approach emphasizes leadership development, citizen education, and the support of informed change.
Examples From The Field|Special Report
27 Pages
2002
Ralph Hamilton at the Chapin Hall Center at the University of Chicago presents a first level of analysis of funder collaboration, reports general findings from a diverse sample of experienced collaborators, and frames tensions funders face when choosing a collaborative approach. His final section suggests both cautions about funder collaboration, as well as opportunities that funder collaboration offers philanthropy.
