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Community Foundations Leadership Team
Vision
Community foundations are recognized leaders and partners to strengthen their communities.
Mission
To serve as a strong voice, advocate and resource for community foundations.
Plan of Action
Unleashing the Power & Potential of Community Foundations was developed with input from leaders across the sector. This plan outlines how Community Foundations Leadership Team will engage the field as we work to build stronger communities.
Committee Roster
Community Foundations Leadership Team
Resources
Implementation Partners
CFLeads
CFLeads connects community foundations to their peers and other sources of knowledge and expertise as they take on crucial leadership roles to build thriving communities. Visit www.cfleads.org.
CFInsights
Now more than ever, community foundations need access to reliable benchmarking data to align their operating models and cost structures with their missions. In order to provide this data, FSG Social Impact Advisors has established Community Foundation Insights (CF Insights), a centralized data resource for community foundations.
CF Insights gives participating community foundations access to up-to-date information on the finances, operations and best practices of their peers. The need for CF Insights was highlighted in a 2005 study commissioned by the Council on Foundations Community Foundations Leadership Team (CFLT), and conducted by FSG, that found nearly unanimous desire among community foundations for more accurate, timely, and complete information about comparative financial performance.
The CFLT has endorsed this project as a priority for the field and has supported the development of CF Insights as a division of FSG. FSG and the Advisory Board are raising $2M to support the start-up of CF Insights.
Action Teams
The Community Foundations Leadership Team and its Action Teams represent over 250 volunteers which form the working committee structure that the Leadership Team uses to operationalize its plans. The Leadership Team is elected by the community foundation field to set the direction and program goals for community foundation field nationally.
Using a broad committee structure, the Leadership Team and Action Teams have the responsibility to:
- represent the interests of the entire field
- lead the field in mutual learning and collective impact by serving as a communications hub
- coordinate member-driven initiatives
- provide a mechanism for soliciting member needs, at least annually, in order to set field priorities
- measure member satisfaction
- evaluate the quality of direct and shared services
- demonstrate accountability by reporting to the Council and to community foundation field and to develop an annual operating plan to advance the priorities
Field Engagement Action Team (FEAT)
The Field Engagement Action Team oversees the Idea Lab grant program that provides support for innovative pilot projects designed to field test new ways of doing work in the field; and develops strategies for sharing learnings from projects launched to address goals in the Plan of Action.
Legal and Regulatory Standing Committee (LRSC)
The Legal and Regulatory Standing Committee reviews legislation, regulations and public policy initiatives relevant to community foundations and brings those issues to the Council's Public Policy Committee for appropriate action to protect the interests of the field.
Standards Action Team (SAT)
The Standards Action Team oversees the development and updating of a broad range of standards for community foundations and the design of educational programs about these standards.
Technology Action Team (TAT)
The Technology Action Team develops strategies to promote knowledge sharing about technology resources and business tools for community foundations at www.cftech.org.
