CFC Framework

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Framework
For Community Leadership by a Community Foundation
Presenters Name Organization Contact
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Stepping Up to Leadership
We need new forms of civic dialogue, engagement,
and leadership that are

• Visionary and inclusive
• Beyond single issues and partisan politics
• Grounded in clear values, committed to improving
  quality of community life

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Using the CFLeads Framework

• Specific to community leadership by community
  foundations
• Manageable bites
• Making the shift from occasional to intentional
  community leadership

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Defining Community Leadership

• 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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First Level Building Blocks
A. The community foundation manifests the
values, culture and will to exercise community
leadership.
B. The community foundation continuously builds
the relationships to exercise community
leadership.
C. The community foundation accesses and
develops the resources necessary to exercise
community leadership.
D. The community foundation accesses and
develops the understanding and skills to
exercise community leadership.
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A. Values, Culture and Will

• Embed community leadership in the DNA of the
  foundation
• Overcome organizational silos
• Prepare internally to increase impact

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B. Relationships

• Building relationships is ongoing
• Staff and board members are all involved
• Board members, donors and volunteers receive
  information, become more engaged, support
  community leadership work internally and
  externally

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C. Resources

• Includes more than money, but money matters
• Types of resources
• Provide staff, meeting space, amenities for
  collaborations
• Serve as fiscal agent when no one else can
• Loan in-house expertise (i.e., communications
  staff, sit on committees)

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D. Understanding and Skills

• Can acquire internally, on-the-job, specialized
  hires, consultants, community partners
• Commission studies, scans
• Create indicator projects (i.e. Vital Signs)
• Stakeholder interviews, focus groups
• Convene organizations, entities that all deal
  with a particular issue

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Building Block AValues, Culture and Will
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 1. Effect change that advances the common good

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Building Block AValues, Culture and Will
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 2. Increase opportunity, diverse participation
  and fairness

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Building Block AValues, Culture and Will
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 3. Focus on results-driven learning

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Building Block AValues, Culture and Will
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 4. Be humble, respectful and transparent

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Building Block BRelationships
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 1. Join with or convene those involved in or
  concerned about an issue

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Building Block BRelationships
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 2. Engage and support other community leaders

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Building Block CResources
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 1. Use internal systems to maximize ability to
  influence community change

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Building Block CResources
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 2. Use human resources to exercise community
  leadership

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Building Block CResources
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 3. Engage donors and other co-investors

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Building Block CResources
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 4. Ensure business model provides flexible
  financial resources

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Building Block DUnderstanding and Skill
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 1. Actively learn about, with, and for the
  community

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Building Block DUnderstanding and Skill
Second-Level Building Blocks

• Understand processes of community improvement

• community development
• economic development
• community organizing
• cultural change
• systems change

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Building Block DUnderstanding and Skill
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 3. Stimulate dialogue and understanding build
  consensus

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Building Block DUnderstanding and Skill
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 4. Strategically craft and act on community
  leadership opportunities

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Building Block DUnderstanding and Skill
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 5. Engage in public policy to advance the common
  good

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Building Block DUnderstanding and Skill
Second-Level Building Blocks

• 6. Measure the impact of community leadership work

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Story Reflection Tool

• Think about your community leadership strengths
  and gaps
• To start, reflect on a specific community
  leadership experience it may be completed or in
  progress

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Story Reflection ToolInstructions

• Gather a group of people
• Identify leadership activities
• Complete activity in document
• Repeat as needed

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Assessment and Planning Tool

• Checklist to think about leadership attributes
  and capacities your community foundation has in
  place
• Steps to take to get the attributes / capacities
  that you want and dont have (yet)

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Assessment and Planning Tool Instructions

• Gather into teams
• Review relevant building blocks
• Identify building blocks in place
• Inventory those needed
• Plan action steps
• Act by making choices

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For More Information

• Go to the Building Community Vitality A
  Leadership Toolkit members area of the CFC
  website to find other tools, resources and
  stories to help you