Community Foundation Atlas Now Available -- Most Comprehensive Dataset About Community Foundations Just Published
New York, NY — October 20, 2014. Today at the 2014 Fall
Conference for Community Foundations, an international research collaboration
unveiled the "Community Foundation Atlas," the most comprehensive
directory of the world's community foundation movement that has ever been
published. The online platform, available atCommunityFoundationAtlas.org, maps
the identities, locations, assets, roles and achievements of place-based
philanthropies around the world.
Among the key findings:
The global community foundation movement is gaining
momentum. Embracing an inclusive definition of "community
philanthropy" field, the Atlas has identified 1,827 place-based
foundations in 67 countries. While the movement began 100 years ago, the last
three decades have seen explosive growth. In just the past 14 years, the number
of known community foundations and community philanthropies nearly doubled,
growing from approximately 1,000 in 2000 to more than 1,800 in 2014.
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