Expanding Research and Analysis for Community Foundations - A Field-Wide Study

As part of the long-term research agenda of the Community Foundations Leadership Team of the Council on Foundations, FSG recently surveyed the field to better understand:

• recent challenges to the economic sustainability of community foundations,
• the use of cost-revenue studies, and
• the extent of interest in gathering more consistent and timely benchmarking data about community foundation finances and operations.

Based on a survey of nearly 250 community foundation CEOs and CFOs as well as in-depth interviews with leaders in the community foundation field, this presentation summarizes our learnings.

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