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Community Foundations

While the “three-legged stool” of endowment building, grant-making and community leadership is common to all community foundations, each individual foundation decides for itself how to best balance these three functions in a way that meets the needs of the local community.

Impact Strategies has developed the Impact Model to guide community foundations as they identify and seek to fulfill their desired role in their local communities. Through facilitated planning sessions with foundation board and staff members, the model is used to identify specific areas of foundation work that can be enhanced to move the foundation toward its stated mission.