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Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation

Publication date: 
11/2008
Grantmakers who fund community organizing say it's the best option when you want to promote civic engagement and support lasting solutions to a community's problems. Yet many funders, concerned about the ability to measure its impact and effectiveness, hesitate to take up community organizing as a strategy. In this guide, funders and organizers discuss what makes community organizing unique and uniquely effective, how to manage grantee relationships over time, understanding the value of process, and the grantmaker's special role in fostering change.

Nourishing Strong Communities: Thoughts on Food Policy from Karen Karp

Release Date: 
03/15/2010
... Illumination Fund, and The Elmezzi Fund—which focused on ways that the public, private, and government sectors are working together to improve the food system. This program ... Resources, share her thoughts...

JPB Foundation Supports Best Practices, Models for Green Infrastructure in Underserved Communities

Release Date: 
03/10/2016
... Practices, Models for Green Infrastructure in Underserved Communities Today, thought leaders from around the country are gathering to explore solutions to stormwater management ... (NRPA) and the American...

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