Community Leadership WebinarJanuary 26, 2011

Beyond Grantmaking:  Engaging Citizens in

Building a Better Community

Welcome

• Sixth Community Leadership Webinar

• Moderated by Deborah A. Ellwood, Executive Director, CFLeads

• 220+ registrants from 124 CFs

CFLeads Vision

 Community foundations take on challenging

issues, engage citizens in cross-sector

solutions, and marshal the resources to

improve their communities and provide

opportunity for all.

Community Leadership Definition and OutcomeThe community foundation is a catalyzing force that creates a better future for all by addressing

the community’s most critical or persistent challenges, inclusively uniting people, institutions and resources, and producing significant, widely shared and lasting results.

FIRST-LEVEL BUILDING BLOCKS

The community foundation manifests the values, culture and will to exercise community leadership.

The community foundation is committed to effecting change that advances the common good.

The community foundation is fundamentally committed and organized to increase opportunity, diverse participation and fairness.

The community foundation is a results-driven learning organization.

The community foundation is humble, respectful and transparent.

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

The community foundation is positioned to join with or convene those involved in, affected by or concerned about an issue.

The community foundation engages and supports other community leaders.

The community foundation’s internal information and implementation systems maximize its ability to influence community change.

The community foundation has the human resources to exercise community leadership.

The community foundation engages donors and other co-investors in community leadership work.

The community foundation’s business model provides flexible financial resources to support community leadership efforts.

The community foundation accesses and develops the understanding and skills to exercise community leadership.

The community foundation understands the processes that lead to community improvement:· community development· economic development· community organizing

The community foundation stimulates dialogue, promotes understanding and builds consensus.

The community foundation strategically crafts and acts on community leadership opportunities.

The community foundation engages in public policy to advance the common good.

SECOND-LEVEL BUILDING BLOCKS

The community foundation evaluates the impact of its community leadership work.

The community foundation actively learns about, with and for the community.

The community foundation accesses and develops the resources necessary to exercise community leadership.

· cultural change· systems change

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Agenda

Nancy Van MilligenPresident/CEO

Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque

Jeff YostPresident and CEO

Nebraska Community Foundation

Q & A

What is citizen engagement?

• Expands opportunities for the public to shape their community’s future

• Beyond professionals, civic leaders and special interests

• Group action to identify issues and shape mutually acceptable solutions

Why citizen engagement matters

On the issue

In the community

For the community foundation

Community Engagement

Nancy Van Milligen

President/CEO

Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque

History of our Community Foundation

New community foundation – opened in 2003

My background – community development

I didn’t know any better

Need for name recognition; desire to be seen as

value-added

•Builds community foundation’s leadership role

•Value added/Community impact

•Empowers citizens/community

•Develops leadership

•Engages donors/builds funds

•Focuses attention on the issues – increases participation and helps us achieve outcomes

$XXX billion in [County]

$XXX,XXX per probated estate

Why Community Engagement?

Community Visioning ProcessToolkit (on- and offline) that encouraged:

Gather a group

Brainstorm

Submit your ideas

Media

Events

Outcomes•10 Best Ideas – all on their way

•Crescent City Community Health Center•America’s River Phase II•Library services expansion and more

•Increase in community participation and volunteerism•Endowment fund growth•Eight of ten ideas have endowment funds

Issue-Related Community Engagement

Awareness: Where am I now?

Vision: Where do I want to go?

Transformation: What do I need to change to get there?

Growth: What’s my next step?

$XXX billion in [County]

$XXX,XXX per probated estate

Community Engagement - How?

Engagement – Issue Related Partnership with Chamber

Promoting a City Government initiative

Funded by Knight Community Information Challenge grant

Staff-intensive

Website - Technology important; but also offline component

Media and Guerilla Marketing

Community Cafes and Events

Lots of partnerships and moving parts

Lessons Learned

•Visioning and issue-engagement differences•Reaching out to stakeholders•Labor-intensive•Reaching the hard to reach•Engaging your board

Presentation to CFLeads by Jeff Yost January 2011

Community Leadership: Engaging Citizens to Build

Stronger Hometowns

Outline for Today’s Presentation

1. Why NCF Focuses on Building Community Leadership?

2. Strategy & Tactics

3. Affiliated Fund Success Stories

About Nebraska Nebraska’s strengths

– Civic capacity and hometown pride– Educational system – Work ethic

Nebraska’s challenges– Out-migration of middle-class youth– Lack of diversity in rural economy– Large geography/many frontier counties

(80% of communities < 1,000 pop.)

Population Loss of 10% or more 1980-2008

Government Needs a Partner

• Most small town infrastructure and services provided by local governments

• Discretionary federal domestic investment is declining and will decline further

• Communities have to have other sources of opportunity capital to compete

• Lack of budget discretion has impacted leadership development for locally elected officials

To Give You Must First Believe“To give, you must first believe. Belief must drive the mission, the cause, the community. Therefore, to grow philanthropy in rural America, we must first believe in the future of rural America.”

Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth

An Unprecedented Opportunity

“Millionaires in the Millennium”Havens & Schervish, 1999, Boston College

“Wealth in Nebraska”Nebraska Community Foundation, 2002

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County-Based Transfer of Wealth

Transfer of Wealth: A Unique

Opportunity To build philanthropy and endowments To prove that capital is not the limiting

resource to community development To achieve sustainability (by using Asset

Based Community Development) To break out of a cycle of

dependency

6,000 Students from 44 Schools Say

• 80% rate hometown good place to live• 87% plan on going to college• 51% picture themselves living in or near their

hometown (if a career opportunity is available)

• 44% interested in owning their own business someday

• 45% interested in taking an entrepreneurship class

• 12% say their hometown is too small to return

NCF Philosophy• Maximize local control• Do not replace local capacity; all services

from “NCF mothership” must add-value• Build capacity by empowering local

leaders

NCF is a community development organization using philanthropy as a tool

Leadership Development• Effective leadership development

can’t occur in the abstract• Effective leadership development

must occur on a real-time basis involving decisions that matter

• Reflection is critical to helping leaders evolve and become more effective

Leadership Development & Community Philanthropy:The Combustion Engine

Metaphor• It takes a sparkplug to start

the engine• It takes more cylinders to

make the engine go faster

NCF Priorities• Inspire, train and assist affiliated fund

leaders• Minimize administrative burden on

affiliated fund leaders• Help community-based affiliated funds

build unrestricted endowments• Help community-based affiliated funds

make grants for long-term community and economic impact

NCF Tactics• Affiliated Fund Action Planning

– Mission, Vision, Values– Maximize Community Engagement– Leadership Succession

• Education/Training of Affiliated Fund Leaders– Peer Learning– Best Practices– Do Good, Don’t Just Feel Good

• Build Habit of Giving to Tap Transfer of Wealth

Affiliated Fund Leader Participation in NCF Trainings

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50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Year

Num

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of P

artic

ipan

ts

In-Person Trainings Remote Trainings

NCF System Seeks to Engage Everyone

3,620

4,543

5,043

5,927

7,1496,946

8,018

6,446

7,794

4,615

1,903

2,387

99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10

Fiscal Year 2010

7,794 gifts to 139 affiliated funds

1,796 gifts from first time donors

Number of Contributions per Fiscal Year

Building Assets for Vibrant Communities

Endowment for What?

Now that you have an endowment, what difference is that going to make in the future of your hometown?

These new assets must be invested in ways to build a better future for your hometown!

Impact Grantmaking Non-traditional scholarships High-quality affordable child care Small business development & transition Scholarships with a social compact Build leadership with a purpose Value-added curriculum for K-12 schools Engage youth

Success in Shickley

• Population – 376• More than half the

households in the school district give

• Granted more than $100,000 in last 15 years

Impact Grantmaking

Shickley Community Foundation Fund

10-Year Community Transfer of Wealth $13,602,0005% of 10-Year Community Transfer of Wealth

$680,000

Total Endowment & Expectancies $1,903,146Sep 2010

Achieved nearly three times their 5% of 10-Year Community TOW

And they’re not stopping!

Shickley Community Foundation Fund

Endowment Goals– December 2013 – $3.5 million– December 2020 – $8 million– December 2030 – $12 million

$540,000 every year to reinvest in their community

462

258

445

382

535

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

McCook Community Foundation Fund

Number of Contributions per Year

Results 2,082 gifts in five years Assets = $1.2 million

($200,000 in 2006) 12 Expectancies =

$2.3mm

Reinvested $600,000 in last five years

Success Story:Holt County, Nebraska

StuartAtkinson

O’Neill

EwingAmelia

Chambers

Inman Page

Emmet

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Holt County Success Story County-wide public-private partnership$1.7 million endowed + 10 planned giftsHired full-time business coach 20 new/expanded businesses have

created or retained 110 jobs 70 graduates of leadership class11 new families

Common Threads among Community Fund Success

Stories Broad base of committed leadership 100% of FAC gives time, talent & treasure Using fundraising catalysts to get started Building “habit of giving” with many donors Affiliated Fund acting as community partner Celebrating impact & success

Citizen Engagement Approaches

– Visioning and planning– Grantmaking – affiliate funds, giving circles, advisory

committees– Leadership development– Advocacy– Community organizing– Diversity and identity funds– Civility projects– Issue forums– Voter registration

Why citizen engagement matters  On the issue

– Better, more lasting outcomes– Legitimacy and sticking power– System and policy level solutions

In the community– More active, informed, optimistic– Social capital– New leaders

For the community foundation– Deeper connections with donors– Better understanding of community– Leveraged grantmaking– RESULTS!

• Solutions more likely to be implemented• Legitimacy • Potential to leverage grantmaking

• Builds community confidence and trusting relationships

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Q & A

• Phone participants, press *1. Streaming audio participants, dial 1-877-551-8166 and press *1

• To remove yourself from queue, press *2• Or, electronically, type question at bottom

of your screen and click “Submit”• Please state your name & community

foundation before asking your question• Direct your question to one of the

presenters

Share your citizen engagement story

• Identify the focus or issue• Reason for engaging the community• Top three strategies or actions• Partners• Desired results and actual results• Specific factors critical to success (e.g., values, skills,

relationships)

• Include your CF’s name and your contact info

Send to Deanna Silke at dsilke@cfleads.org

Thank you!

• Archived Webinar, PPT and tools available at www.cfleads.org

• For more info about the Community Leadership and the Framework, visit www.cfleads.org

• Please complete survey

• Thanks to Jeff and Nancy!

Community Leadership Webinar Series