Anja Böllhoff
Strategic Advisor
ECFI
This practical guide for community foundations will help them understand their responsibilities and actions they can take in relation to keeping children and vulnerable adults safe. With safeguarding being a ‘must do’ and not a ‘nice to have’, this is an essential resource.
Stefan Cibian, Director of Făgăraș Research Institute in Romania, shares a powerful recount and insights from the ECFI Study Visit 2024 that started with visits in Leeds or Two Ridings Community Foundations and ended up at UKCF’s 2024 Conference, that brought together community foundation practitioners from the UK with more than 40 international participants.
Kamil Szlosek
Knowledge and Research Expert
ECFI
Connecting CF with the SDGs - Polish version by ECFI. A practical guide for community foundations practitioners on why and how to embrace the SDGs
European Community Foundation Initiative
This guide highlights how diversity in form and function allows community foundations to weave themselves into local societal fabric. It contributes to an understanding of the evolution of the movement across Europe, providing insights into country contexts, topics and challenges.
Engagement and Participation - What, who and how. This comprehensive guide draws from a wide range of experiences in the community foundations field and offers tools, insights and examples of practice. An essential resource for anyone interested in increasing citizen engagement and participation in their organisation and its work.
This report explores the role of community foundations in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and presents case studies of successful initiatives by community foundations in support of the SDGs. It highlights the importance of community engagement and collaboration in achieving sustainable development.
Silvia Panini & James Magowan
Assifero/ECFI
This abstract introduces the second edition of the Guide to Italian Community Foundations (2023), presenting an overview of the field’s development, scale and diversity. It highlights how community foundations operate across different regional contexts, fulfil varied roles and contribute to addressing social challenges. The guide combines data, practitioner insights and external perspectives to illustrate the added value of community foundations and the importance of networking and support infrastructure in strengthening the movement.
European Community Foundation Initiative
This Guide describes the evolution and current state of the community foundation field in the Netherlands with recommendations for development applicable in most contexts
This reflection highlights four common mistakes donors make when engaging with local communities—from relying on visibility over needs, to applying inappropriate metrics and working in isolation. It underscores the importance of community foundations as intermediaries that provide local knowledge, support fair resource allocation and enable more collaborative, context-sensitive approaches to philanthropy.
This reflection explores how community foundations can build a shared “community of practice” around the SDGs. It highlights how participatory learning and peer exchange can shift perceptions, helping foundations connect their local work to global challenges and adopt a whole-organisation approach to embedding the SDGs in strategy, operations and partnerships.
