Facilitator/Grantmaker- making hard choices to achieve effective grants taking into consideration age and location, but without leading. A question arises around the extent to which achieving social justice in each field is a priority. Community leader- conflict or duality of interest, potential for partisan ensnarement, incompatibility with the foundation’s grantmaking or other programmatic interests, staffing capacity. Capacities for this role include the ability to lead with grace and to step away if achieving the desired outcomes requires others to bask in whatever glory may be forthcoming, skill and high regard. As a maturing field, it seems community foundations will have to give themselves permission for a lateral and vertical stretch as needs change and arise. Table 1 summarise the deeper consequences of the conceptual and philosophical choices for community foundations.
Facilitator/Grantmaker- making hard choices to achieve effective grants taking into consideration age and location, but without leading. A question arises around the extent to which achieving social justice in each field is a priority. Community leader- conflict or duality of interest, potential for partisan ensnarement, incompatibility with the foundation’s grantmaking or other programmatic interests, staffing capacity. Capacities for this role include the ability to lead with grace and to step away if achieving the desired outcomes requires others to bask in whatever glory may be forthcoming, skill and high regard. As a maturing field, it seems community foundations will have to give themselves permission for a lateral and vertical stretch as needs change and arise. Table 1 summarise the deeper consequences of the conceptual and philosophical choices for community foundations.
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