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Community Improvement/Development

This report details how funders can embrace the power of young people to advance healthier and safer communities.

Audience: All Funders

This report by the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities examines the potential of anchor institutions hold to create lasting and sustainable change—and illustrates how funders are working with anchor institutions to create healthier, more equitable, and economically vibrant places to live and work.

Audience: All Funders

This paper explores community democracy as a cultural choice and a potential organizing system for philanthropy using stories that demonstrate its principles and practices, primarily growing from the experience of northern California communities. 

The Ford Institute for Community Building,  a program of The Ford Family Foundation, works to help community leaders learn how to implement local solutions based on principles of effective community building. This paper describes the development and work of the The Ford Institute for Community Building.

A working glossary of terms to help shape a common language for work in Community Capacity. 

This report highlights three philanthropic efforts to build the capacity of local communities in the West - The Ford Family Foundation’’s Ford Institute Leadership Program, the Northwest Area Foundation’’s Horizons Program, and the Orton Family Foundation’’s Heart and Soul Community Planning Program.

This white paper examines the relationship between encouraging sustainable communities and enhancing access to opportunity for lower-income people and people of color.

Audience: All Funders
Release Date: May 8, 2025

Prudential Financial, Inc. recently announced the recipients of its third annual Prudential Community Grants Program.

News Type: News
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Grantmaking
Release Date: October 19, 2023

The Provident Bank Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2023 Signature Grant cycle.

News Type: News
Topic: Grantmaking
Release Date: April 18, 2023

The Regional Foundation announced $4,750,000 in Implementation Grants to seven organizations throughout Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

News Type: News
Audience: All Funders
Topic: Grantmaking

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