Publications

CFC Manuals & Resources

Community Leadership

From Good Causes to Root Causes
A Toolkit on Poverty for Community Foundations

From Good Causes to Root Causes is a practical online resource designed to help funders better understand and address poverty in Canadian communities. It helps funders prepare, implement and evaluate a strategy to respond to poverty in their community. Background information, discussion questions, and lessons learned all figure prominently.

The toolkit was funded by the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program and developed with CFC members that are at various stages of their own work on poverty.

Publication date: 2008
Format: Online resource

Community Outreach and Dialogue
Helps community foundations reach out and engage diverse groups more fully in their foundation.

The guide contains a simple 10-step outline; details to help navigate each step; and stories from two community foundations that have begun to pilot this approach. It also includes Convening for Community Foundations, a paper that summarizes basic information to be considered when beginning to think about convening and compilation of stories that illustrate how community foundations are meeting the philanthropic goals of donors.

Publication date: 2004
Format: Manual
Pages: 82
Price: Members $50 CAD; Non-members $85 CAD
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Building Bridges: A Tool for Engaging Diverse Communities
A planning tool to help community foundations organize their ideas and activities as they strive to become more inclusive organizations.

This tool is intended to follow “Diversity Scanning Tool for Community Foundations” and can be used by any group within the foundation – the board, staff, and/or committees who decide to be intentional about embracing community diversity. It is divided into five steps and offers resources on diversity and inclusion.

Publication date: 2006
Format: Tool
Pages: 27
Price: Members $15 CAD; Non-members $25 CAD
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Diversity Scanning Tool for Community Foundations
Determine the diversity of your community and your organization - all through a practical four-step process.

The Diversity Scanning Tool provides your foundation with user-friendly templates for identifying the diversity in your community and determining how your foundation reflects that reality. The templates will help your foundation source and gather the information you need and then help you compare the results of your scan. The tool also includes a checklist to determine next steps and your foundation's readiness to move forward.

Publication date: 2006
Format: Tool
Pages: 27
Price: Members $15 CAD; Non-members $25 CAD
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