Advancing Community Development Philanthropy
energizing place-based institutions to do the best their regions
A story from Barry Community Foundation (MI). When no one else in their region could do it, this foundation took on setting up and running a program to help local low-income workers file for and receive their Earned Income Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits – and then successfully spun the program off once the […]
A story from the Napa Valley Community Foundation (CA). In this region of extreme income disparity, the community foundation organized the One Napa Valley Initiative, which is helping scores of Legal Permanent Resident immigrants who already have green cards to become citizens – a transition that correlates with higher family income, higher educational attainment for their […]
A story from the Barry Community Foundation (MI). This small-but-bold community foundation has established a Children’s Savings Account for every kindergarten child in the county, has built an endowment to do the same for every child in the future, and is organizing financial education and savings incentives around it that will help children, their families and […]
A story from United Way of Chittenden County (VT). This Vermont United Way sparked a local small business collaborative that is providing shared services and staff who “circuit-ride” to help low-income employees stabilize during financial and family emergencies, and then begin to build assets – even as it significantly reduces turnover and costs for the participating firms. Presented by Lisa Falcone, […]
A story from the Arizona Community Foundation. The Arizona Community Foundation’s 2009 statewide convening of potential business, government and nonprofit partners around the FES framework has led to a wider deployment of programs that help Arizona’s low-income working families get ahead – including Individual Development Account matched-savings programs, free tax-filing assistance for the Earned Income Tax […]
Advancing Community Development Philanthropy 