Browsing by Subject "community foundations"

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    Building & Maintaining Cooperative Relationships Between Community Foundations and United Way
    (2021-07-31) Paarlberg, Laurie E.; LaPere-Schloop, Megan; Horning, Cherilyn
    This project explores how relationships are formed and maintained by local philanthropic leaders. Our research team at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University has conducted studies of local partnerships between United Way and community foundations in 8 communities. This report represents the findings in these collaborative partnerships.
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    Community Diversity and Donor Control: An empirical analysis of contributions to donor-advised funds at community foundations
    (2021-06) Qu, Heng; Paarlberg, Laurie E.
    This study examines the relationship between community ethnic-racial diversity and contributions to donors-advised funds (DAFs) held by community foundations. Unlike general contributions, DAFs allows donors to retain advisory control over their fund distribution based on individual preferences. In contrast to prior research that generally finds that diversity dampens private provision of public goods, we show that greater ethnic-racial diversity is significantly associated with higher levels of contributions to DAFs at community foundations but not with general contributions. The findings contribute to the literature on diversity and public goods provision and have practical implications for the policy role of private philanthropy.
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    The Landscape of Community Philanthropy
    (2020-08) Paarlberg, Laurie; LePere-Schloop, Megan; Horning, Cherilyn
    Community philanthropic organizations, those organizations like United Ways and community foundations, have traditionally played important roles by raising and distribute resources within a specific geographic place, increasingly play important roles in planning for and funding local public service delivery. Over the last two decades, the field of community philanthropy has experienced many shifts. Changing donor expectations, increased competition from other nonprofits and commercial funds, economic restructuring and demographic shifts have all pushed local United Ways and community foundations to rethink their roles and their business models. These changes also affect relationships between organizations. This report summarizes the roles that United Ways and community foundations play in their local communities, their perceptions of the changes going on in the world around them and their perceptions of their relationships with each other.
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    The Path to Community Leadership
    (2021-01) Paarlberg, Laurie; Walk, Marlene; Horning, Cherilyn
    Since 2005, community foundations across the country have been encouraged to respond to changes in their local communities by taking on new roles—roles that encourage community foundations to be “leaders” on community issues. This project explores the process by which six community foundations moved down the path to community leadership. The community foundations we studied are in three states and range in size from less than $20 million in assets to $400 million in assets. While these organizations are not the largest community foundations in the country, they are well established. Through interviews with organizational leaders, we learned that each path to community leadership is unique and builds upon local resources and capacities.