Resources

 The Ekstrom Alley Clontz team has developed several resources for community foundations and the organizations and advisors who serve them.
 
Free Resources on Family Philanthropy and Community Foundations
EAC team members created these free resources for the National Center for Family Philanthropy:
Other Tools We've Created  
Ongoing Contributions
  • Team members contribute to the firm’s blog.
  • Bryan Clontz writes for Forbes and hosts free webinars on gift acceptance and planning topics. 
  • Tony Macklin blogs about philanthropic topics and trends on his own site.
  • Erika Seth Davies has collected some of her thinking on racial equity in philanthropy at the REAL. 
 
Lessons from the Field
Our work with clients often focuses on a specific challenge an organization is facing.  Yet in every case, we look at the larger organizational context. This substantially informs our thinking about what is at the core of the challenge and whether the presenting problem is in fact the real problem. In that process we learn many lessons with applicability elsewhere. These lessons from the field, as we call them, both broaden our perspective and give us valuable insights to share with our clients, including:
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Useful Links for Community Foundations

Classic Reports  
Recent Thinking  
Resources and Research  
Professional Development and Peer Groups  
International Community Philanthropy


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