Fund Featured in What's Next for Philanthropy Report
August 13, 2010
A new report, "What's Next for Philanthropy" issued by the Monitor Institute highlights the Fund for Our Economic Future and cites it as an inspiring example of how philanthropy can act and adapt better in a networked world.
The Monitor Institute has been studying the future of philanthropy since 2000 and its work is supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The new report highlights five ways that philanthropy can "act bigger" and five ways it can "adapt better." The Fund "highlights many of the ways that funders are beginning to act bigger and adapt faster," according to the report.
The report devotes a full page to the Fund with an article entitled: "More Shoulders to the Wheel."
The report reinforces the importance of the Fund's efforts to build regional collaborations to implement the region's economic competitiveness agenda, Advance Northeast Ohio.
"The only way a whole system can be changed is by engaging and connecting the parts," the report said. "Funders are well positioned to support connectivity and to coordinate and knit together the pieces of a network of activity that can have impacts far beyond the success of any one grant, grantee or donor."
Download the report from the Monitor Institute.