Powerful Partners: Lessons from Community Foundations about Resident Engagement

Leila Fiester and Deborah Ellwood

As community foundations look to address complex challenges, they are seeking to better integrate resident engagement directly into their work. To foster “longer-term, broader community impact,” many are experimenting with new partnerships and are shifting their internal structures to build capacity for deeper resident engagement. Powerful Partners: Lessons from Community Foundations about Resident Engagement, prepared by CFLeads, a national network for community foundations, highlights ten resident engagement lessons to help community foundations address issues such as race, equity, and power dynamics; and to help community foundations strike a balance between charitable and transformational activities.