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Register today for the Whole Funding Workshop!
Go to:
www.wholecommunities.org/workshops/
T H E C H A L L E N G E
Today’s world is shaped by fragmentation, stemming in
large part from the divides of class, race, politics and
privilege. Fragmentation has entrenched social and
environmental organizations into their own specialized
silos, such as environmental justice, land conservation,
food justice, anti-oppression, sustainable development,
and more. And yet the complexity of today’s challenges
— from climate change to water scarcity to undoing
racism — makes it impossible for any effort to succeed
in isolation. These times ask us to work together,
to find unified values, a shared language and
common story.
W H AT I S W H O L E F U N D I N G ?
Whole funding is a practical approach to achieving
tangible goals, not by increasing funding, but by
inspiring greater collaboration, resulting in transforma-
tion and innovation. Grounded in today’s economic
realities, whole funding is about reweaving the isolated
strands of activism into more potent and resilient
movements for change.
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• How can funders help organizations and
communities reach the full potential of
their visions?
L O G I S T I C S A N D C O S T F O R T H E N E X T W O R K S H O P
W H E N September 4 – 7, 2012W H E R E Center for Whole Communities at Knoll Farm in the Mad River Valley of Vermont
F A C U L T Y Peter Forbes, Deborah Schoenbaum, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
C O S T $750. – $1,200.
We are committed to making all of our programs available to as many environmental and social change leaders as possible. Program tuition is determined on a sliding scale to accommodate individuals from organizations of all sizes. All of our workshop pricesinclude room and board.
Group rates and scholarships are available.
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A B O U T T H E W O R K S H O PThe goal of the workshop is to help the funding
community play the key role of helping organizations
and communities become more adaptive and resilient,
less competitive, and to foster coalitions that are inclu-
sive, creative, and politically agile. Center for Whole
Communities offers the Whole Funding Workshop as a
safe, trusted forum for the funding community to
consider challenging questions and reveal lasting solu-
tions together. This workshop is a four-day intensive
designed for, and in collaboration with, the philanthropic
community.
The Whole Funding Workshop explores how funders
and funding institutions can achieve these attributes
themselves and model them for grantees. It will help
funders develop their own transformational leadership
skills, enhancing their ability to support movements for
change in a troubled economy. In this workshop, funders
will learn how to:
• Help funding institutions themselves and their
grantees rise above limiting silos and collaborate
with others toward larger common goals.
• Begin to effectively address the power dynamic
between grantor and grantee.
• Develop the funders’ voice, with humility and self-
awareness, about race, power and privilege.
• Understand the practical role that story, dialogue,
and personal creativity can play in visioning some-
thing new for funders and for grantees.
• Find new, transformational ways to support grantees
beyond general operating or specific program fund-
ing as they work toward greater collaboration.
W E WO U L D L I K E TO AC K N OW L E D G E
This workshop came to be in 2009 through the thinking
partnership of the following leaders in the philanthropic
community:
David Grant formerly of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Diane Ives of the Kendeda Fund
Jenny Russell of the Merck Family Fund
Ann Fowler Wallace of the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Kolu Zigbi of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
A b o u t C E N T E R F O R W H O L E C O M M U N I T I E S
Center for Whole Communities (CWC) fosters
inclusive communities that are strongly rooted in
place and where all people — regardless of income,
race, or background — have access to and a
healthy relationship with the natural world.
Founded in 2003, Center for Whole Communities
has earned a national reputation for encouraging
new movements for change by working directly
leader-to-leader to create the conditions, tools and
experiences to foster stronger, more innovative
change-making efforts. CWC is based at Knoll Farm,
an organic working farm and learning center that
overlooks the Mad River Valley of central Vermont.
Whole Thinking Retreats, Advanced Leadership
Workshops, and trainings are held at our learning
center, as well as nationwide.
F O R I N D I V I D U A L S :
Center for Whole Communities workshops are
offered at Knoll Farm in central Vermont and at
other locations around the country throughout
the year. For a full calendar of workshops, please
visit our website at www.wholecommunities.org.
On our website you will also find our sliding scale
of fees. Through the generous support of our fun-
ders we are able to substantially underwrite the
cost of many of our programs.
F O R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S :
Center for Whole Communities leads workshops
for organizations seeking greater effectiveness
or looking for new tools to help them catalyze
broader change. We bring our faculty and curricu-
lum to you and tailor our workshop to your
specific concerns and goals. To talk further about
how we can serve your organization through one
of our programs, please contact:
Alex Bauermeister, Senior Program Manager
802.496.5690