A New Anchor Mission for a New Century

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Date: 
4 December, 2014

2pm to 3:30pm Eastern Time

Learn how community foundations are building community wealth

This webinar will present and discuss the new report from the Democracy Collaborative, "A New Anchor Mission for a New Century: Community foundations deploying all resources to build community wealth."

The webinar will highlight the best practices and lessons learned by leading community foundations, and provide a framework for audience members who want to better use their community foundation's institutional and financial resources to build community wealth.

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In the report, Marjorie Kelly and Violeta Duncan explore how community foundations across the country are embracing a new mission as key local anchors, catalyzing transformative community economic development and mission-focused investment.

Profiling 30 cutting-edge community foundations—the "Innovative 30"—the report offers an exciting snapshot of an emerging trend, one driven both by the need in communities across the country for new thinking about seemingly intractable economic problems, and by the need for community foundations to assert their uniquely place-based capacity to convene local stakeholders and align local resources in an era of growing competition for donor-advised funds from national foundations linked to commercial banks and investment houses.

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In coversation with:

  • Marjorie Kelly, Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects, The Democracy Collaborative
  • Violeta Duncan, Community Development Associate, The Democracy Collaborative
  • Sandy Wiggins, Principal, Consilience, LLC; Chair, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE); and Senior Advisor, RSF Social Finance
  • Patrick Horvath, Director of Economic Opportunity, Director of Strengthening Neighborhoods, The Denver Foundation
Host: 
The Democracy Collaborative
Webinar  --
United States