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Futurecasting Canada Anticipating the role of Community Foundations In 2025 and beyond… CFC Conference – The Wild, Wild Why, 2015 @CPMRU #communityprosperity
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Futurecasting Canada
Anticipating the role of Community FoundationsIn 2025 and beyond…
CFC Conference – The Wild, Wild Why, 2015
@CPMRU #communityprosperity
The Institute for Community Prosperity connects learning, research and change leadership to build community and strengthen the common good.
CommunityChange-makers
Research
Students
2015Environmental Scan
1.Fiscal and market dynamics
2.Political dynamic as Canadians and Albertans head to the polls
3.Trends in philanthropy
4. “Meta-themes”
related to community well-being:
Alberta’s vulnerabilities exposedA social innovation tipping pointConvergence of the local and the globalPoverty: Safety nets and snaresBoomer Cities: Aging in placeSocial finance goes mainstreamDisruption and re-alignment of the “sector”Community leadership emerges as a core need Marketization of educationEmbrace of place: Cultural vibrancy and reconciliation of historyLocal responses to a sweltering Earth
Fiscal and Market Dynamics
• Global• Canada• Alberta• Calgary
• Equities• Interest Rates• Currency
Election Year
Trends in Philanthropy
• Social motivators of giving amplified through social media
• New frontiers in understanding impact• Strategic v. open source philanthropy• Pro-cyclical responses to market conditions• Design thinking challenging the “dance of
deception”• The social innovation train has arrived• Philanthropy v. democracy• Shared value as a public expectation• Goodbye charity, hello social change• Platforms, apps and user-generated media
Convergence of the global and the local
Economic vulnerabilities exposed
From blogpost @ Deepclimate.org
Social Innovation
• Systems thinking• Collective impact• Social labs / change labs• Design thinking / human-centered
design• Maker movement• Big data / open data• Shared value
Poverty: Safety nets and snares
“We don’t want to confront the fact that our safety net is not strong enough to raise people out of poverty but is strong enough to entrap people.”
- Hugh Segal, Huffington Post Canada
Boomer cities: Aging in place
“The huge baby boom generation, which has transformed public and private institutions throughout its life course thus far, is poised to change our communities once again.”- Andrew Scharlach, Creating Age-Friendly Communities, Generations (2009)
Social finance goes mainstream
Disruption and re-alignment of the community sector
The NP Sector…
….…
From “Nonprofit” to “Community Prosperity”
“Our Stories are all too familiar. The foundation on which many nonprofits are built is flawed and simplistic, focused on symptoms rather than the underlying set of problems, developed in isolation rather than as a part of an integrated system, and organized to administer a narrowly tailored program or benefit rather than generate sustained, significant change for a person or community. As a result, change is incremental, not big or bold enough to make a lasting and transformative impact.”
Shore, Bill, Darell Hammond and Amy Celep. . “When Good is Not Good Enough”, in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall, 2013 (p. 2).
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”
- Cesar Chavez
Community leadership as a core need
Marketization of education
Embrace of place: Cultural vibrancy and reconciliation of history
Local responses to a sweltering Earth
The 2025 “Headline”
In 10 years…
A)If things DON’T go well, what can be expected?
B)If things DO go well, what is possible?
Capture these both via a MEDIA “HEADLINE”
Community foundations and creating the future we want
Think about your role as a community foundation in working toward the good headline and preventing the bad one.
A)What do you have to put in place to make that happen?
B)What can you do NOW?
Social Innovation, Societal Change and Canada's Grant-making Foundations
• A three-year SSHRC-supported research development project exploring the social impact of private, public, and community foundations in Canada.
• Partners:
Research
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