Think Circular – community foundations and circular economy
This report explores how community foundations engage with the circular economy by supporting local initiatives that reduce waste, reuse resources, and strengthen community resilience. Drawing on examples such as repair hubs, community gardens, and reuse projects, it highlights the role of partnerships, citizen engagement, and local action in addressing climate and sustainability challenges. It positions community foundations as key actors in connecting environmental goals with place-based action.
The regeneration of our communities through community foundations and the SDGs
This publication positions community foundations as key actors in regenerating communities by aligning local action with the SDGs. Using the Raimat Lleida Community Foundation as an example, it shows how regeneration can be operationalised through interconnected focus areas such as social action, culture, innovation, and environmental sustainability. By mobilising local actors, fostering leadership, and building cross-sector partnerships, community foundations create collaborative systems that strengthen resilience, support local economies, and enable long-term, place-based transformation.
To learn and undestand the SDGs in order to be able to communicate the idea of SDGs and their benefits to FFL members and develop guidelines for including the SDG in the day-to-day activities of FFL and its members
This publication explores how community foundations can use the SDGs as a practical framework for guiding strategy, grantmaking, and community engagement. It highlights that while awareness of the SDGs remains uneven, they offer a powerful tool to connect local action with global challenges. By integrating SDGs into everyday operations—through partnerships, education, and funding priorities—community foundations can strengthen their long-term impact and support more sustainable and inclusive community development.
How to use marketing tools to encourage business to be involved in social activities based on the Sustainable Development Goals
This publication explores how community foundations can use marketing tools to communicate their work through the lens of the SDGs. It highlights practical approaches such as storytelling, visual identity, and campaign design to make local impact more visible and relatable. By aligning communication strategies with global frameworks, foundations can strengthen their positioning, engage broader audiences, and attract new partners and donors while keeping their work rooted in local realities.
How County Durham Community Foundation (UK) embraced the SDGs
This case shows how County Durham Community Foundation integrated the SDGs into its organisational practice, using them as a tool to clarify impact, strengthen donor communication and guide decision-making. It highlights a gradual, practical approach—from internal alignment and mapping grants to embedding SDGs in branding, reporting and relationships—demonstrating how global goals can become part of everyday operations.
Building a SDG community of practice among community foundations
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.
Connecting Community Foundations with the SDGs
This guide outlines how community foundations can meaningfully engage with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by translating global targets into locally relevant action. It demonstrates how the SDG framework can support strategic clarity, strengthen partnerships and improve communication with stakeholders. Rather than treating the SDGs as a compliance exercise, the publication positions them as a practical tool for aligning community priorities with broader development agendas and for enhancing the visibility and credibility of community foundations.
ФОНДЫ МЕСТНЫХ СООБЩЕСТВ И ЦЕЛИ УСТОЙЧИВОГО РАЗВИТИЯ
This guide explores how community foundations can align their work with global frameworks while remaining rooted in local realities. It emphasises practical approaches to translating broad development goals into community-led action, highlighting the role of community foundations as connectors between global agendas and local needs, and as facilitators of inclusive, place-based change.
#17 Ziele. Was die Nachhaltigkeitsziele der UN mit der Arbeit der Bürgerstiftungen zu tun haben
This guide explores how community foundations can use the SDGs as a practical framework to strengthen their work. It demonstrates how aligning mission, strategy, investments and daily operations with the SDGs can enhance impact, build partnerships and position community foundations as key connectors between local action and global goals.
Conectarea funda iilor comunitare la Obiectivele de Dezvoltare Durabila (ODD)
This guide explores how community foundations can use the SDGs as a practical framework to strengthen their work. It demonstrates how aligning mission, strategy, investments and daily operations with the SDGs can enhance impact, build partnerships and position community foundations as key connectors between local action and global goals.
