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Foundation Profile: Funders' Network for Smart Growth & Livable Communities
"To help funders maximize their effectiveness, and increase the number of funders in this field, the Network works to inform and connect funders, offers responsive services, implements projects, and provides facilitative leadership in selected regions. Through its work the Network helps funders to advance policy reforms; share knowledge of effective strategies and tools; build the capacity of key constituencies; raise awareness about the interdisciplinary nature of these issues; and encourage sustained engagement with these issues by a diverse coalition of funders."
MISSION: "To inspire, strengthen, and expand philanthropic leadership and funders' abilities to support organizations working to improve communities through better development decisions and growth policies."
DESCRIPTION: "To help funders maximize their effectiveness, and increase the number of funders in this field, the Network works to inform and connect funders, offers responsive services, implements projects, and provides facilitative leadership in selected regions. Through its work the Network helps funders to advance policy reforms; share knowledge of effective strategies and tools; build the capacity of key constituencies; raise awareness about the interdisciplinary nature of these issues; and encourage sustained engagement with these issues by a diverse coalition of funders."
MAIN ISSUE AREAS:
1) communications
2) community foundations leadership
3) regional and neighborhood equity
4) transportation,
5) green buildings and green neighborhoods, and
6) healthy people and places.
- Contact Name
- Ben Starrett
- Contact Email
- Ben@fundersnetwork.org
- Geographic Areas
- National
- Focus area(s)
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- Community & Economic Development
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Health
- Land Use / Smart Growth
- Site Users Affiliated with this Group
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