emerging opportunities and tensions in community foundations’ development in the uk. jenny harrow
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Emerging opportunities and tensions in
community foundations’ development in the UK
The lens of localism
Professor Jenny Harrow
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The rediscovery of localism
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Community Foundations in the UK policy context
• Geographically embedded
philanthropic organisations
with geographical
organisational identities and
an inherent focus on place
• Predestined as community
leaders?
Source: http://www.communityfoundations.org.uk/community_foundations/map/
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Method
• Documentary analysis
• Semi-structured interviews • 12 CEs in England
• Chosen from spectrum of size and age
• Thematic analysis
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Themes from the literature
• Articulation of the strength of the CF model
• Flexibility and transferability of the model
• Optimism vs Negativity
• Role of state/private foundations
• Key roles of community leadership: leader,
intermediary and overseer
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Growing sense of independence, prioritised over place…
• “ (This is the) first year now that we have 75% private funding, finally feel this is what being a community foundation is about – our focus now is on philanthropy ….have a policy for when we do and do not go for European and Government funding – our organisational emphasis from this point onwards is philanthropy”
• “in a way we should be invisible intermediaries, (the) glory should be of the groups we support – but the trouble with (being an) invisible intermediary as a grant-maker is that it makes it difficult to effectively fundraise for endowment –”
• “ for 12 years, a grant-maker no endowment building – in 2009 £180,000 in endowment (before grassroots challenge) – Grassroots challenge was lift off moment! …achieved matched funding, now £3m plus in endowment. It generated a completely different mindset about what a community foundation should be’ - (we have) confidence from the endowment.”
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…and:
• “In terms of public policy, how do you choose what to stand up for?.... needs of small groups that will always be the case , so the continued need for grant making, but diificul to chose areas to prioritise in a policy sense – stick with the more general issues…fairness, equity”
• “the grassroots grant fund was not linked to deprivation in any way - challenge for CFS individually is knowing quite where to start with the 'community aspect' or the 'philanthropy aspect' – we still have to reflect the broad range of opinions on giving and community needs in our localities”
• “ the council have decided to prioritise children and young people – not to say that we don’t support that area – but should we fund another area where there are cuts or should we fund what we think local need determines?”
• With relations with local authorities particularly challenging, ranging from the CF which “has a hot desk at the town hall”, to the CF which ““tries and stay away from local government unless it’s strategic relevance, ……we drop in when we need to”
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Different notions of place and place leadership
From: Jung, Harrow and Phillips (2013), Developing a better understanding of community foundations in the UK’s localism, Policy & Politics
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Differentiated conceptualisations of place and place leadership in UK community foundations
From: Jung, Harrow and Phillips (2013), Developing a better understanding of community foundations in the UK’s localism, Policy & Politics
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Reflections I
• Interpretations of localism
producing contrasting foci for
community foundations
• Internal, continuous and
convergent struggle
• Complex interplay between
roles
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Reflections II
• Question of necessity/ viability of a single/
singular notion of community foundations
• Question if the English/Welsh predominance
of endowment building might be limiting and
challenging the multi-purpose nature of the
community foundation model
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The road ahead…
• Reframing of what community
foundations are away from ‘the agile
servant’ perspective?
• Potential (positive/negative) for
increasing institutional competition?
• Schism between small community
foundations and über-foundations?
• Sense of ‘conditional localism’?