Resources You Can Use
Here is a comprehensive listing of current and historical resources on community leadership and community foundations.
Included here: articles, books, journals, speeches you can watch, audio slide shows you can listen to, websites and blogs...just about everything we can find on this topic. Most of them are freely available, although a few require you to register in order to download.
How To Find Resources
Search — use the keyword search feature to conduct general searches by keyword (eg "leadership role" or "convening"), or to track down resources by author, publisher or title.Browse by topic — browse through all resources by topic (there are 14 topics in all)
Browse by source — browse through all resources from a specific source or publisher
Resource inventory - At-a-glance
International/Global
- An International Perspective on the History, Development and Characteristics of CFs
- Building the Worldwide Community Foundation Movement
- Community Foundation Global Status Report
- Community Foundations and Community Leadership
- Community Foundations Play a Key Role in Building Social Capital
- Have We Been Slow to Take Up Social Justice Issues?
- International Connections: Resources That Support the Growth and Development of Community Foundations Globally
- Local Mission-Global Vision: Community Foundations in the 21st Century
- Sowing the Seeds of Local Philanthropy. Two Decades in the Field of Community Foundations
- The Challenge for Community Foundations Worldwide: Is Everyone Included in Civil Society?
General Reading
- Alliance Magazine - For Philanthropy & Social Investment Worldwide
- An Endangered Species in Desperate Need of a New Generation of Leadership
- ASAE & The Centre for Association Leadership
- Australian Conservation Foundation – Consumption Atlas
- Breaking News
- Bridgespan
- Center for Creative Leadership
- Center for Effective Philanthropy
- Center on Philanthropy & Civil Society
- CFLeads
Social Justice
- Addressing Our Toughest Challenges: A Social Justice Discussion Guide for Community Foundations
- Community Foundations Take the Lead : Promising Approaches to Building Inclusive and Equitable Communities
- Creating Canadian Movements for Change
- Have We Been Slow to Take Up Social Justice Issues?
- Strategic Leadership for Social Justice: Accountability, Sustainability and Vision
- The Challenge for Community Foundations Worldwide: Is Everyone Included in Civil Society?
- The Road Not Yet Traveled: A Community Foundation Movement for Social Justice
- Voices from the Field II: Reflections on Comprehensive Community Change
What You Will Find Here
- Resources on the theory of community leadership
- How to prepare your foundation to play a leadership role in the community
- Case studies of leadership stories
- Measuring your leadership work
- Specific issues in which community foundations have taken on leadership roles (e.g. youth engagement, poverty, welcoming newcomers, environmental issues, etc.)
- Coordinating your leadership work with the other responsibilities of a community foundation
- ...and more!
New Resources
This listing is updated often. Please let us know at cvtoolkit@cfc-fcc.ca if you find new resources we can add, or if any of those listed here are no longer available.