Exchange Learning Outcomes report from the Banat region (Serbia – Romania)
This learning report documents a peer exchange between the emerging Pančevo Community Foundation and the more established Timișoara Community Foundation. It shares practical lessons on fundraising, community mobilisation, grantmaking, governance, organisational development, staff wellbeing and partnership building. The report also shows how peer learning can help a new community foundation develop realistic priorities, strengthen relationships, establish appropriate structures and adapt tested approaches to its own local context.
UK Community Foundations: The power of connection
This article explores how UK Community Foundations reimagined remote and flexible working after the COVID-19 pandemic by embedding staff within local community foundations across the UK. It reflects on how closer relationships with members, regular in-person visits and long-term thinking can strengthen both organisational learning and the wider community foundation network.