Resources You Can Use
Here is a comprehensive listing of current and historical resources on community leadership and community foundations.
Included here: articles, books, journals, speeches you can watch, audio slide shows you can listen to, websites and blogs...just about everything we can find on this topic. Most of them are freely available, although a few require you to register in order to download.
How To Find Resources
Search — use the keyword search feature to conduct general searches by keyword (eg "leadership role" or "convening"), or to track down resources by author, publisher or title.Browse by topic — browse through all resources by topic (there are 14 topics in all)
Browse by source — browse through all resources from a specific source or publisher
Resource inventory - At-a-glance
Neighbourhood/Grassroots/Place-Based Approaches
- An Evaluation of the Ford Foundation's Neighborhood and Family Initiative
- Breaking Ground: Engaging Communities in Extractive and Infrastructure Projects
- Community Catalyst: How Community Foundations Are Acting as Agents for Local Change
- Community Foundations’ Leadership – Traditional, Change Agent, or Nonexistent?
- Embedded Philanthropy and Community Change
- Greater New Orleans Foundation. A Conversation on Regionalism
- Hard Lessons about Philanthropy & Community Change from the Neighborhood
- Leading the Field Volume II: Profiles of Community Foundation Leadership in Building Better Communities
- Neighborhood Partners Initiatives: The Startup
- Strategic Leadership for Social Justice: Accountability, Sustainability and Vision
Analysis/Reflection
- Accountability, Community, and Philanthropic Practice. Report on a Session At the 52nd Annual Conference of the Council on Foundations
- Assessing Foundation Performance: Current Practices, Future Possibilities – Lessons Learned From a Gathering of Foundation Leaders.
- Beyond the Rhetoric: Foundation Strategy
- Beyond the Rhetoric: Foundation Strategy
- Community Catalyst: How Community Foundations Are Acting as Agents for Local Change
- Community Change: Theories, Practice, and Evidence
- Community Foundations and Community Leadership
- Community Foundations Leadership Multiplied, 2007 Report to the Field
- Community Foundations Survey
- Community Foundations Survey
Stories and Profiles
- Addressing Our Toughest Challenges: A Social Justice Discussion Guide for Community Foundations
- An Agile Servant: Community Leadership by Community Foundations
- An Evaluation of the Ford Foundation's Neighborhood and Family Initiative
- ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership – Video Content for the Association Community
- Beyond Money and Grant-Making: The Emerging Role of Community Foundations
- Beyond the Rhetoric: Foundation Strategy
- Community Building Chronicles, October 2007: Investing in Youth Engagement for Community Change in New Mexico
- Community Catalyst: How Community Foundations Are Acting as Agents for Local Change
- Community Foundations Take the Lead : Promising Approaches to Building Inclusive and Equitable Communities
- Community Leadership: Community Change through Public Action
What You Will Find Here
- Resources on the theory of community leadership
- How to prepare your foundation to play a leadership role in the community
- Case studies of leadership stories
- Measuring your leadership work
- Specific issues in which community foundations have taken on leadership roles (e.g. youth engagement, poverty, welcoming newcomers, environmental issues, etc.)
- Coordinating your leadership work with the other responsibilities of a community foundation
- ...and more!
New Resources
This listing is updated often. Please let us know at cvtoolkit@cfc-fcc.ca if you find new resources we can add, or if any of those listed here are no longer available.