In the New Economy • How can funders help organizations and
communities reach the full potential of their visions?
THE CHALLENGE
Today’s world is shaped by fragmentation, stemming in large part from the divides of class, race, politics and privilege. Fragmentation has entrenched social and
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environmental organizations into their own specialized silos, such as environmental justice, land conservation, food justice, anti-oppression, sustainable development, and more. And yet the complexity of today’s challenges — from climate change to water scarcity to undoing racism — makes it impossible for any effort to succeed in isolation. These times ask us to work together, to find unified values, a shared language and common story. W H AT I S W H O L E F U N D I N G ?
Whole funding is a practical approach to achieving tangible goals, not by increasing funding, but by inspiring greater collaboration, resulting in transformation and innovation. Grounded in today’s economic realities, whole funding is about reweaving the isolated strands of activism into more potent and resilient movements for change.
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LOGISTICS AND COST
FOR THE NEXT WORKSHOP
WHEN
WHERE
September 4 – 7, 2012
Center for Whole Communities at Knoll Farm in the Mad River Valley of Vermont
F A C U L T Y Peter Forbes, Deborah Schoenbaum, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey COST
$750. – $1,200.
We are committed to making all of our programs available to as many environmental and social change leaders as possible. Program tuition is determined on a sliding scale to accommodate individuals from organizations of all sizes. All of our workshop prices include room and board. Group rates and scholarships are available.
CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES www . wholecommunities.org 802.496.5690
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The goal of the workshop is to help the funding
FOR INDIVIDUALS:
community play the key role of helping organizations
Center for Whole Communities workshops are
and communities become more adaptive and resilient,
offered at Knoll Farm in central Vermont and at
less competitive, and to foster coalitions that are inclu-
other locations around the country throughout
sive, creative, and politically agile. Center for Whole
the year. For a full calendar of workshops, please
Communities offers the Whole Funding Workshop as a
visit our website at www.wholecommunities.org.
safe, trusted forum for the funding community to
On our website you will also find our sliding scale
consider challenging questions and reveal lasting solu-
of fees. Through the generous support of our fun-
tions together. This workshop is a four-day intensive
ders we are able to substantially underwrite the
designed for, and in collaboration with, the philanthropic
cost of many of our programs.
community. The Whole Funding Workshop explores how funders
F O R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S :
and funding institutions can achieve these attributes
Center for Whole Communities leads workshops
themselves and model them for grantees. It will help
for organizations seeking greater effectiveness
funders develop their own transformational leadership
or looking for new tools to help them catalyze
skills, enhancing their ability to support movements for
broader change. We bring our faculty and curricu-
change in a troubled economy. In this workshop, funders
lum to you and tailor our workshop to your
will learn how to:
specific concerns and goals. To talk further about
• Help funding institutions themselves and their grantees rise above limiting silos and collaborate with others toward larger common goals. • Begin to effectively address the power dynamic between grantor and grantee. • Develop the funders’ voice, with humility and selfawareness, about race, power and privilege. • Understand the practical role that story, dialogue, and personal creativity can play in visioning something new for funders and for grantees. • Find new, transformational ways to support grantees beyond general operating or specific program funding as they work toward greater collaboration. W E W O U L D L I K E T O AC K N O W L E D G E
how we can serve your organization through one of our programs, please contact: Alex Bauermeister, Senior Program Manager Alex@wholecommunities.org 802.496.5690
About CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES Center for Whole Communities (CWC) fosters inclusive communities that are strongly rooted in place and where all people — regardless of income, race, or background — have access to and a healthy relationship with the natural world. Founded in 2003, Center for Whole Communities
This workshop came to be in 2009 through the thinking
has earned a national reputation for encouraging
partnership of the following leaders in the philanthropic
new movements for change by working directly
community:
leader-to-leader to create the conditions, tools and
David Grant formerly of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Diane Ives of the Kendeda Fund Jenny Russell of the Merck Family Fund Ann Fowler Wallace of the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Kolu Zigbi of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
experiences to foster stronger, more innovative change-making efforts. CWC is based at Knoll Farm, an organic working farm and learning center that overlooks the Mad River Valley of central Vermont. Whole Thinking Retreats, Advanced Leadership Workshops, and trainings are held at our learning center, as well as nationwide.
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