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What’s next for community philanthropy

Monitor Institute by Deloitte

A field wide initiative to provide organizations with helpful tools to meet their communities’ evolving needs.
The world is changing rapidly

Inescapable demographic, technological, economic, environmental, and social trends are reshaping our communities and altering the landscape of philanthropy.

Keeping pace will be a challenge for community philanthropy

In today’s rapidly changing context, the systems that are helping community philanthropy organizations thrive right now may not meet the needs of their users in the future.

The status quo is not an option

Place by place, community philanthropy organizations will need to figure out what to hold onto, what to let go of, and what to create a new to better meet the evolving needs of their communities.

About the Initiative

The What’s Next for Community Philanthropy initiative was launched by
the Monitor Institute in January 2013 to engage community foundations
and other community philanthropy organizations in a large-scale
innovation and design process to help them open up to new models and new
possibilities that will help them better serve their communities in the
years ahead.

Over the course of the initiative, the Monitor Institute team
interviewed nearly 200 different community philanthropy organizations
across six continents; explored more than 50 analogous spaces and
parallel industries related to community change; conferred with more
than a dozen leading futurists to understand how the context for
community philanthropy is changing; spoke with a host of donors and
other potential community philanthropy “users,” (both those who already
work with community foundations and those who don’t); and held scores of
interactive workshops and feedback sessions with more than 2,000
community philanthropy practitioners to engage and test ideas and tools
with the field.

Learn more about the sponsors and contributors of this project.

View the “What’s Next for Community Philanthropy” toolkit

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Gabriel Kasper

Gabriel Kasper

Managing Director | Monitor Institute by Deloitte
+1 415 932 5356