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BPP LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Community Foundation Leadership: Catalyzing Partnerships for Change
V Learning Community Notes and Resources
October 27-29, 2004
Tucson , Arizona
Loews Ventana Canyon
THE ISSUES:
Community foundations are much more than grantmaking institutions. Truly
effective community foundations play critical leadership roles in local
areas. A community foundation holds unique insights into community issues,
is a neutral convener and bridge-builder across social divides and has
access to a wide range of financial and human resources. Community foundations
can mobilize individuals and institutions around especially serious,
unattended or emerging community issues. Over the past quarter century,
community foundations have grown most rapidly in communities marked by
persistent and growing ethnic and/or social divisions, both in the U.S.
and internationally. Such challenging social divides make community foundation
leadership more necessary than ever – and call for us to create
new models for and tools of leadership. The V Learning Community of
the Border Philanthropy Partnership provided an opportunity to address
the “whys” and “hows” of border community foundation
leadership for the 21 st century.
QUESTIONS ADDRESSED:
- What are the unique characteristics of community foundations that have been successful community leaders?
- Why should border community foundations emphasize their leadership role – especially in the 21 st century?
- How do community foundations at different levels of organizational development exercise their leadership role in border communities?
- What roles can Board members play to create successful community foundation leadership?
- How can border community foundations collectively make a difference around an important border issue?
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 -
Board Members and Community Foundation Leadership
1:00 – 3: 00 pm Registration
1:00 – 3:00 pm Committee Meetings
- Executive Committee
- Program Committee
- Communications Committee
2:30 – 3:00 pm Orientation for First Time Attendees
Judy Harper, Synergos Institute
3:15 – 3:30 pm Welcomes & Review of Agenda
Steve Alley , Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and
Vivian Blair , Vivian Blair y Asociados
3:30 – 4:00 pm Reacquainting Exercise , Vivian Blair
4:00 – 4:30 pm Community Foundations as Bridging Institutions
Keynote address by Peggy
Dulany, Chair, Synergos Institute Peggy Dulany
4:00 – 5:30 pm Learning Lab
Thursday, October 28, 2004 -
Community Change and New Leadership for the 21 st Century
9:15 – 9:45 am
Community Foundation Leadership for the 21 st Century; Keynote Address by Antonia Hernandez, CEO (and former board member),
California Community Foundation
Followed by commentary by two BPP partner Board Members,
Russ Jones, Yuma Community Foundation and
Guadalupe de la Vega, Fundación Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte
10:30 – 12:00 pm Discussion of Border Community Foundations and Leadership
12:00 – 1:00 pm Buffet Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 pm Peer Learning Workshops Session 1
2:30 – 2:45 pm Break
2:45 – 4:15 pm Peer Learning Workshops Session 2
Friday, October 29, 2004 -
Looking Towards Border Philanthropy Partnership Phase II
9:00 – 9:45 am BPP Phase I Evaluation Report and Discussion
Sylvia Peregrino, Evaluator, University of Texas , El Paso
10:00 – 11:15 am Presentation and Discussion of BPP Phase 2
Pablo Farias, Ford Foundation
11:30 – 11:40 am Final Remarks
David Winder, Synergos Institute
Toñé Beguerisse, Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad