Community Leadership Resources

Learn more about the 2025 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Community Foundation Cohort.

Hear from Opportunity Insights and Leading on Opportunity, an entity of Foundation for The Carolinas in this introductory webinar to Opportunity Insights’ Opportunity Atlas.

Hear from CFLeads and Innovia Foundation during an introductory webinar about community leadership with special insights from your community foundation colleagues.

Addressing Affordable Housing with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Addressing Housing Supply with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Explore the importance of local journalism, how community foundations can start a Press Forward chapter and how national funders can support you in your efforts in this webinar with Press Forward.

Exploring the Role of Community Foundations in Addressing Affordable Housing

Learn how community foundations can utilize Nonprofit VOTE’s new Philanthropy for Voter Engagement Toolkit and hear from two community foundations about their voter engagement work.

Learn more about the second Gun Violence Prevention Network cohort and hear from past participants about their experiences.

Learn about CFLeads & Welcoming America Community of Practice and hear from past participants.

In the third economic mobility series webinar, hear from Urban Institute about their Upward Mobility Framework and how community foundations can use it.

In the second webinar of our economic mobility series, the Greater Cincinnati Foundation shared how they used data to determine a target population for their grantmaking and how to begin to measure community impact.

In the first webinar for our economic mobility series, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and the regional chamber of commerce Buffalo Niagara Partnership shared how they work in partnership on a number of economic mobility initiatives in the region, including the Benefits Cliff Calculator.

A conversation with the U.S. Department of Education to discuss the Pre-K-3 strategy they have been developing along with community foundation perspectives about local challenges or success stories related to working on early childhood education.

CFLeads and Welcoming America partnered to host “Advancing Welcoming through Community Foundations,” a discussion about the potential for greater coordination, collaboration, and investment from community foundations in advancing the vital work of welcoming newcomers into U.S. communities.