More Than Dollars
A Sessions: Friday, November 7 – 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
A7 Disaster Response and Community Foundations - how to make your Community Foundation ready to respond to disasters when they hit your community.
Andrew Beeforth, Cumbria Community Foundation, UK
Mary Jalonick, The Dallas Foundation
Rob Buchanan, Council on Foundations
The session will provide a comprehensive introduction to the Disaster Response Toolkit developed by members of the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network. The toolkit is written as a guide for practitioners who want to prepare for disasters in their community. It contains information on fund development, stakeholder relations, systems, policy development (and potential pitfalls) as well as grant making and systems.
A8 More than Money: Making a Difference with Assistance Beyond The Grant
Ellie Buteau, The Centre for Effective Philanthropy
At this session, The Centre for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) will share research findings and practical information about how foundations can best provide assistance beyond the grant, also referred to as non-monetary assistance, to support grantee organizations and create impact. Many foundations see themselves as doing much more than making grants. But little is known about what foundations currently do with regard to assistance beyond the grant or about the impact of these efforts. What are foundations providing? What types of assistance beyond the grant do grantees most need and value? What challenges do foundations face in the delivery of assistance beyond the grant? CEP will answer these questions based on its analysis of grantee, foundation program staff, and foundation CEO survey data, as well as interviews with grantees, foundation program staff, and foundation CEOs.
B Sessions: Saturday, November 8 – 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
B1 Inside the Olympic machine: Meet the non-profit behind the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Donna Wilson, Executive Vice President, Workforce
Vancouver 2010 Organizing Committee has a mission to Touch the soul of the Nation and inspire the world through building and delivering an extraordinary Olympic and Paralympic experience with lasting legacies. Learn how this non-profit organization with a five year lifespan is building the means to deliver this mission while planning the welcome of over 3 billion television viewers, 250,000 visitors, more than 10,000 media and over 5,000 athletes. Gain insights into the foundation of a “values based” leadership, the complexities of shifting from a planning organization to an operational one and the difficulties of delicately balancing both the heart and mind to ensure all business decisions lead to sustainable physical and social community legacies.
B2 Unpacking Community Leadership
Cindy Sesler Ballard, CFLeads
Michael M. Howe, former President of the East Bay Community Foundation
Carolyn Milne, Hamilton Community Foundation
Janet Topolsky, Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Over the last year, a group of 30 philanthropic leaders has grappled with the elusive topic of community leadership. The result is a definition of community leadership by community foundations and a practical framework that any community foundation of any size can use to take stock, analyze options, develop strategies, and measure progress. Learn how to use the framework to assess where you are on the path to community leadership, where you want to go, and how to get there.
B6 Tools & Processes for Building Evaluation Into Your Work
Mike Christie, Community Foundation of Medicine Hat & South East Alberta
Marry Ferguson, Eko Nomos, Kimberley, Ontario
Janet M. Murray, Resources for Results
This workshop will provide participants with a solid grounding in approaches and methods for evaluating their work. In 2006-2007 Eko Nomos worked with Community Foundations of Canada’s Vital Signs program to build evaluation capacity and systems for documenting outcomes at five local community foundations, including The Community Foundation of Medicine Hat & Southeastern Alberta. Drawing on this case study, this workshop will discuss the evaluation lessons learned by the foundation and will provide copies of key evaluation planning tools.
B7 The Ethics of Community Foundation Advocacy
Judith Maxwell, formerly with Canadian Policy Research Network
Dick Stewart, formerly with City of Ottawa
Bob Wyatt, Muttart Foundation
Community Foundations are increasingly moving beyond short-term responses to social problems to address root causes. This requires them to make choices which have ethical implications: They must choose how they will their make use of their capacities to lead, to convene and to provide financial support. When should they become advocates? How do they select the areas of focus for their work? With whom should they partner?
B8 New eyes for community philanthropy: MyMachine and A Heart for Limburg
Jan Despiegelaere, Community Foundation West-Flanders, Belgium
Viveane Michiels, Community Foundation Limburg, Belgium
Two very different examples of community philanthropy illustrate how smaller and emerging community foundations can position themselves in their community, develop a long-term sustainability strategy, and describe their added value to the community. MyMachine focuses on the power of a good idea. A Heart for Limburg is a media-driven campaign that grew from corporate philanthropy into a new community foundation.
C Sessions: Saturday, November 8 – 2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
C1 Local Mission - Global Vision: Community Foundations in the 21th Century
Barry Gaberman, moderator
- Peter Walkenhorst, Transatlantic Community Foundation Network
- Emmett Carson, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Monica Patten, Community Foundations of Canada
Three authors share their stories from Local Vision – Global Mission, a soon-to-be published compilation of essays written by community foundation leaders for the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network.
C8 Grassroots Grantmaking: Putting the Community in Community Foundations
Janis Foster, Grassroots Grantmakers, Texas
Julie Black, The Calgary Foundation
David Derbyshire, Wesley Urban Ministries
Lidia Kemeny, Vancouver Foundation
This session will focus on grassroots grantmaking as a strategy that contributes to a community foundation’s effectiveness in its community leadership role, demonstrates its commitment to community accountability, and underscores the foundation’s unique position in its community. Leading practitioners in Canada and the United States will share their experience with this strategy.
D Sessions: Sunday, November 9 – 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
D5 More Than Just Dollars - A New Paradigm of Leadership for Community Foundations and Their Partners
Catherine Dubois, Community Foundation of Ottawa
Abid Jan, South East Ottawa Community Centre
Donna Gray, City of Ottawa
Hear how one community foundation developed and implemented a new paradigm of leadership to help a neighbourhood restore hope to residents struggling with violence and crime. Learn how partners worked together, building on community assets, to create lasting and transformative change. Explore new notions of collaboration, shared responsibility, and effective coordination of community resources.