Community Leadership Webinar

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• Community Leadership Webinar
• June 11, 2009
• Widening the Tent
• Building Relationships for Community Leadership

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Welcome

• Second Community Leadership Webinar
• Hosted by CFLeads the Council on Foundations
• 200 participants from 90 CFs

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Agenda

• Lauren CasteelVice President, Philanthropic
  Partnerships
• The Denver Foundation
• Tom Wilcox President CEOBaltimore Community
  Foundation
• Q A

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National Task Force on Community Leadership

• 30 philanthropic leaders
• 12 months
• 2 frameworks individual community foundation
  and field-level

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CL Framework Value

• Many pathways to community leadership not
  prescriptive
• A way to unpack complex concepts and processes
• A tool for planning that starts from analysis
  rather than intuition
• A tool for taking stock and evaluating progress
• A means to target the right actions to achieve
  desired results
• Finallya definition of community leadership

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Community Leadership Definition

• The community foundation is a catalyzing force
  that creates a better future for all by
  addressing the communitys most critical or
  persistent challenges, inclusively uniting
  people, institutions and resources, and producing
  significant, widely shared and lasting results.  

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Framework for Community Leadership, First Level
Building Blocks

D. Understanding and skills
A. Values, culture and will
C. Resources
B. Relationships
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B. Relationships Building BlockFirst-Level
Building Block

• The community foundation continuously builds the
  relationships to exercise community leadership.

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Building Block B Second-Level Building Blocks

• B.1 The community foundation is positioned to
  join with or convene those involved in, affected
  by or concerned about an issue.
• B.2 The community foundation engages and
  supports other community leaders.

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B.1 Join with or convene

• Core expectation for staff board
• Nurtures relationships trust
• Has access to diverse group of leaders
• Hands on in neighborhoods
• Bring vulnerable and voiceless to the table
• Reach outside the community, as needed

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B.2 Support other community leaders

• Joins other leaders efforts
• Builds capacity of community leaders
• Supports new leaders, especially from
  under-represented communities
• Believes groups should choose their own leaders

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Community Foundation Leadership

• RELATIONSHIPS
• Lauren Casteel
• Vice President, Philanthropic Partnerships
• The Denver Foundation

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Second Level Building Block

• The Community Foundation is positioned to join
  with or convene those involved in, affected by or
  concerned about an issue.

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Relationships

• 1a. Building and outreach are
• core expectations for community foundation staff,
  board and volunteers.
• How???

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TDF Strategic Plan

• Mission We inspire people and mobilize
  resources to strengthen our community.
• Vision We envision a community where all
  residents in Metro Denver have opportunity for a
  high quality life The ability to give of
  themselves and connect with their community.

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Our Values

• Leadership
• -We listen to and learn from our community.
• Equity
• - People.

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• Inclusiveness
• We practice and champion inclusiveness in our
  community. We honor diverse strengths, needs,
  voices and backgrounds of all members of our
  community.

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• Accountability
• honor the charitable intentions of our donors

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1b. The community foundation nurtures relations
and fosters trust throughout the community.

• Listening Campaign

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Community Grants

• Workshops
• Site Visits
• Technical Assistance

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Donors

• Information, support, ongoing education,
  professional advisors.

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Finance Transparency
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1c. The community foundation has access to a
diverse group of leaders through its board,
staff, donors, volunteers, grantees and
partners.Who???

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• Our diversity spans the spectrum of abilities,
  race, ethnicity, socio-economic status,
  linguistic differences, national origins,
  political perspectives and sexual orientation.
• Inclusiveness Initiative

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• 2008/2009 board majority minority.
• All project and grantmaking advisory committees
  comparable diversity.

• Interpreter provided for staff,
• classes in ASL or Spanish.

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• 1d. The community foundation is actively and
  directly involved in
• those neighborhoods and places
• where it is doing community
• leadership work.

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(Grassroots Grantmaking)
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• 1e. The community foundation engages the
  vulnerable and the voiceless in community problem
  solving .

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Comprehensive Gang Model
Community members, nonprofits, government and
former gang members coming together in churches
and parks.
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• Members on Advisory Committees and Board
  leadership.

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• 1f. The community foundation builds
  relationships with those outside the community
  whose connections, resources, interests and
  abilities may support community leadership work.

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• Learning networks, national boards, conferences,
  among others

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• The community foundation engages and supports
  other community leaders.

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• 2a. The community foundation follows or joins
  efforts initiated and led by others.
• What???

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• Colorado HIV/AIDS Collaborative

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Philanthropic Leadership Committee

• Poverty -
• compilation report building on research by others
• Invited reflection
• Interviewed others - RE Gaps

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Hunger

• Feedback from food banks
• Critical Needs Fund
• Donor engagement
• Short-term strategy to meet immediate needs

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Policy advocacy

• State system for enrollment
• - Poverty Reduction Task Force

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• 2b. The community foundation works to build the
  capacity of leaders throughout the community.

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Coordination with community leadership programs
for people of color.
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• 2c. The community foundation engages and
  supports new leaders, especially from groups
  underrepresented in the communitys leadership
  structure, to succeed and gain influence.

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• Leadership Training

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Nonprofit Internship Program
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• Why????

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Impact

• Nonprofit Internship Program

The Community
Donors
Nonprofits
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Lessons Learned

• The development of internal and external
  relationships with all of our stakeholders
  leverages and enhances our work. In challenging
  times - it is important to value all of the
  assets we have available to us in service to and
  in partnership with our community.

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Cool Tool!

• www.nonprofitinclusiveness.org

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Vision, Programs and Relationships Make Big
Things Happen in Baltimore

• Tom Wilcox
• President and CEO
• Baltimore Community Foundation

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BCF Relationship-Building Architecture

• Improve credibility in community
• Create a bold vision
• Share ownership
• Support other community leaders interests
• Create expectations

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2001 Strategic Plan Goal V BCF will participate
in crafting and articulating a broad civic agenda
for the region, which will serve as a framework
for BCFs programmatic work.
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Improve Credibility

• Diversify board
• Democratize grantmaking

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Diversify the Board

• Baltimore a majority-minority city
• Needed to strengthen ties in African-American
  community
• 5 of first 7 new board members African-American
• Remains high-powered fiduciary board

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Democratize grantmaking

• Delegated grantmaking to committees
• Committees composed of BCF board community
  members
• Each major initiative has its own board
• Staff works for committees
• Promotes buy-in and ownership

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Create a bold vision

• Unifying theme
• Offer many entry points
• Focused on results, not BCF

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Donor-driven grants 80
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Catch-22
People reluctant to locate / invest in city
thats unsafe, lacking family supports
City requires tax base to increase safety, family
supports
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Baltimore boasts a growing economy in which all
have the opportunity to thrive
Diversity infuses all grantmaking
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Invest in Baltimore
Baltimore boasts a growing economy in which all
have the opportunity to thrive
Diversity infuses all grantmaking
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Invest in Baltimore Many paths, one vision.
Baltimore boasts a growing economy in which all
have the opportunity to thrive
Diversity
Youth
Promoting Baltimore
Transportation
Neighborhoods
Education
Arts Culture
Environment
Human Services
Diversity infuses all grantmaking
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Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative
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Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative

• Identified need city hadnt recognized
• Created plan to revive neighborhoods that could
  go either way
• Mayors Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative
• Political cover ? instant relationship with mayor

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Healthy Neighborhoods Inc.

• Community Development Board
• Created Initiative
• Used discretionary dollars, raised funds and
  contributed substantial amounts
• Make-up ½ bank presidents and ½ neighborhood
  leaders ? new relationships yield benefits in the
  community

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Healthy Neighborhoods Inc.

• Payoff
• Originally 6 neighborhoods, now 35
• City provides annual funds for operations and
  revolving loan fund
• City gains millions of dollars in
  previously-unrealized tax revenues

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More PayoffBenefiting Kids

• BCF partner advocacy ? City applies new tax
  revenues to fund after-school initiative created
  by BCFs Children Families Committee

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The moral

• All of this was made possible by empowering
  committees to act on their own.

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Create high expectations

• Created an evaluation tool for BCF board
  performance
• BCF and initiative board members expected to
  contribute financially, raise funds and advocate
• ? Commitment becomes the norm

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Lessons Learned

• Create shared vision for your community
• Create culture of shared responsibility and
  ownership
• Create clear expectations about participation and
  contribution by volunteers
• Create structures for broad engagement

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Lessons Learned

• Bring in public officials and co-investors at
  front end
• Increase relationship capital by measuring and
  communicating impact
• Give credit away
• Keep focus on issues, not political affiliation

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Q A

• Press 1 to enter the question queue
• To remove yourself from queue, press 2
• Please state your name community foundation
  before asking your question
• Direct your question to one of the presenters
• In interest of time, community foundation staff
  and board only

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Thanks!

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Community Leadership Webinar Series