Building Philanthropic and Social Capital: The Work of Community Foundations

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The future of community philanthropy: More than pantomines and football shirts

In Newcastle, we support one of the few urban parish councils on an outer city council estate. In an increasingly multi-racial society, communities face new challenges in areas as diverse as Leeds and Lincolnshire. The excellent Commission on Integration and Cohesion report 2 is packed with practical ways in which communities can work better together and include people from different races, faiths and backgrounds. The insights and experiences that community philanthropists bring can be invaluable to finding local solutions, and many are also willing to give time and business brains to local problems.

Putnam has drawn attention to the decline in social capital in the United States and is now researching the particular issues facing multi-racial communities in overcoming their natural tendency to retreat into their ethnic groups 3.

I am fascinated by the way some communities in unlikely places appear rich in social capital — the Allendale Valley in Northumberland or the Cowpen estate in Blyth, for example — and whether social capital can provide a framework for developing and measuring the effect of community philanthropy. As my distinguished American colleague Emmett Carson continually reminds me, a community foundation can only achieve its full potential if it is prepared to take a stand on important social issues.

So another important challenge for community philanthropy is to help donors put their giving into this wider context and develop the breadth and audacity of their philanthropy. We can catch them early — an Acorn Fund at our Community Foundation is no more than a meal out a month — and develop a lifelong relationship with people who have the potential to become powerful philanthropists. Some will broaden their interests and others will deepen them within the community, and we should encourage them in both directions.

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And what of the future? Members help one another develop and improve professional skills, share information about employment opportunities, and foster a climate which promotes professional achievement.


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