2021
DOI: 10.1002/nml.21467
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Community leadership as multi‐dimensional capacities: A conceptual framework and preliminary findings for community foundations

Abstract: Community foundations are increasingly looked to as community leaders that coalesce money, people, knowledge, and networks for addressing public problems at the local level. However, the field remains difficult to grasp-what it is and how it materializes in practice. Drawing from both academic and practitioner literature, this article proposes a multidimensional conceptual framework that construes community leadership in six capacities ranging from (a) strategizing, (b) convening, (c) knowledge building, (d) c… Show more

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“…One approach, for instance, would be to look at changes in grantmaking over time to determine whether grant recipients and funded causes have changed and whether grantmaking aligns with the espoused mission. Other indicators of change may be found in practices, such as social media use, changes in physical infrastructure, or organizational records such as board meeting minutes (see Wu, 2021, for an example using annual reports). Similarly, our interest in change led us to focus on organizations that were already moving to "leadership," raising questions about those cases that have not yet begun to move or have stalled.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…One approach, for instance, would be to look at changes in grantmaking over time to determine whether grant recipients and funded causes have changed and whether grantmaking aligns with the espoused mission. Other indicators of change may be found in practices, such as social media use, changes in physical infrastructure, or organizational records such as board meeting minutes (see Wu, 2021, for an example using annual reports). Similarly, our interest in change led us to focus on organizations that were already moving to "leadership," raising questions about those cases that have not yet begun to move or have stalled.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We identified language that aligns with both the stewardship and community leadership models (see Table 1). CFs whose missions reflect the stewardship model prioritize building and administering endowments and making grants for community betterment based on donor priorities (Ballard, 2007;Bernholz et al, 2005;Daly, 2008;Easterling, 2008Easterling, , 2011Ellwood, 2019;Esposito & Besana, 2018;Graddy & Morgan, 2006;Hammack, 1989;Wu, 2021;Ylvisaker, 1989). Value proposition codes that aligned with the stewardship model include (1) growing and stewarding philanthropy and (2) promoting community betterment and quality of life.…”
Section: Findings From Mission Codingmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…They are generally passive in determining the direction of grantmaking. In the past three decades, facing the competition from commercial donor‐advised funds and demographic changes, practitioners proposed the community leadership model that entails strategizing to define community priorities, building social capital, and bringing community partners and resources together for collaborative endeavors (Bernholz et al, 2005; Easterling, 2011; Murphy, 2017; Strawser, 2021; Wu, 2021).…”
Section: Community Foundations and Community Buildingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Those who adopt activism are even more likely to do so, especially where government’s footprint has diminished. Wu (2021) identifies six ways in which foundations may become community leaders and, hence, play key governance roles—strategizing, convening, building knowledge, building capacity, partnering, and engaging in policy. Several of these means point to the importance of foundations’ intangible assets—their perceived neutrality, professional networks, and access to experts—in providing a sense of legitimacy needed to convene organizations across sectors and issue areas and convince stakeholders to pay attention to what they have to say (Hammack & Anheier, 2010).…”
Section: Foundations Ced Governance and Policymentioning
confidence: 99%