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EAC WEBCAST with Community Capital Advisors

10/11/2021

Marc Rand, Managing Partner of Community Capital Advisors recently invited Steve Alley and Tony Macklin to join a webcast about community foundations (videos below). Our broad discussion included strategic planning, racial inequities, impact investing, and other trends.

Community Capital Advisors helps community foundations and other place-based funders maximize their local impact by prudently aligning their investment capital, policies and practices with their mission to advance racial equity, inclusive economies, sustainable growth and healthy communities. Marc was the Program Director for Loans and Affordable Housing at Marin Community Foundation and Senior Advisor Bert Feuss was Senior VP of Investments for the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. EAC consultant Erika Seth Davies also advises CCA's work.

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How is your foundation building community resiliency?

10/4/2021

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In 2020, we faced a quartet of tough issues – pandemic, uneven economic recovery, renewed focus on racial injustices, and political divisiveness – that have continued in 2021.

What lessons from the past 18 months is your community foundation carrying forward beyond 2021? How are you helping your organization and your communities be more resilient – the sustained ability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from adversity?

We want to hear your answers to those questions, with examples small and large, internal and external. Please email Tony Macklin at tony.macklin@eac-associates.com by October 12 with a couple sentences about your answer and he’ll follow up for additional information. We have some examples below and we know you have your own ideas.

We’ll feature the ideas in the final plenary at the National Conference for Growing Community Foundations and later on this blog. Thank you in advance for your willingness to share your ideas with your peers!

Examples to spark your thinking
Are you changing your practices and policies for the long run?

Streamlined grant programs, more flexible grant programs
HR policies and practices that are more flexible on remote work or family care leave, or that help with long-term trauma recovery
Improving diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in internal policies and practices
Convening and leadership activities focused on the tough issues

Are you helping nonprofits and communities not just recover but be able to withstand future challenges?

Supporting longer-term health and mental health issues
General operating support, multi-year support, capacity building
New or strengthened collaboratives around more equitable recovery or preparation for future pandemics or disasters

Are you helping people move past divisions toward the brighter futures that can unite your communities?

Community visioning processes
Initiatives that connect people like Everyday Democracy or On the Table
Increasing civic participation between election cycles
Helping donors think differently about inequities, other cultures, other viewpoints

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EAC WEBCAST with Community Capital Advisors

How is your foundation building community resiliency?

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