Author Archive:
Peter Walkenhorst
2007 Fall Conference for Community Foundations
The title of the 2007 Council on Foundations community foundations conference, ‘Eureka! Learn, Lead, and Grow’, and the content of the sessions, indicates a marked shift in the tone of such events, away from the …
The time of the missionaries is already over
In his opinion piece ‘Steering clear of the missionaries’ in the last issue of Alliance, Michael Brophy longs for a time when European foundations can look US philanthropy in the eye and say ‘we are …
Building an international learning community
Community foundations, originally a North American concept, constitute one of the fastest growing forms of organized philanthropy worldwide. A recent survey places their number at 1,175, with 30 per cent located in countries outside the …
Evolving new forms of governance in Europe
During the past decade the community foundation concept has spread rapidly around the globe. In continental Europe, much of this growth has taken place in the past six years. The first German community foundation, for …
