CFLeads: Community Foundations Leading Change

A Community Leadership Path

The community foundation is a catalyzing force that creates a better future for all by addressing the community’s most critical and persistent challenges, inclusively uniting people, institutions and resources, and producing significant, widely shared and lasting results. (Definition of community leadership, from Framework for Community Leadership by a Community Foundation.)

Growing numbers of community foundations of all sizes are taking unprecedented leaps into community leadership, developing and using their knowledge, networks, reputation, ability to contribute and leverage resources, and growing political acumen to rally local partners to build thriving communities.

As implementation partner of the Community Foundations Leadership Team, CFLeads is your go-to resource for community foundations committed to building community leadership as a core and enduring competency. We invite you to visit these pages to learn from your colleagues’ experience and to share your own promising community leadership practices.