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Funders often struggle with how to help their grantees increase their communications know-how. To address that need, over the past two years a group of members of the North Carolina Network of Grantmakers developed and tested a program to build their grantees’ communications capacity. The capacity-building program is comprised of training and tailored follow-up to help the organizations plan specific communications, goals, target their audiences, and implement tactics that immediately benefit the organization.

In 2015, downtown Jacksonville saw the grand opening of the Jessie Ball duPont Center, a renovated library that provides offices for nonprofits and work and gathering spaces for the community in an energy-efficient environment with state-of-the-art technology. The Center was made possible through an innovative community investment approach by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, which holds the Center as an asset in its investment portfolio. The Fund has chosen to invest a small portion of its assets for the benefit of the community rather than for the rate of return on the endowment.

"Pay for Success” (PFS) has emerged as a strategy for seeking cost-effective solutions that can deliver better outcomes for communities. PFS financing and grantmaking models can direct taxpayer dollars to interventions that have demonstrated success in delivering social and economic outcomes, whereby an investor contracts with a service provider and agrees to pay for specific outcomes the service provider achieves.

PACE Center for Girls is a community-based, gender-responsive alternative to institutionalization or incarceration for girls with high-risk behaviors, with 19 nonresidential locations across the state of Florida. The PACE model balances academics and social services in a holistic, strength-based culture, with the intention of promoting protective factors and mitigating risk factors for delinquency among girls. 30% of girls enter PACE with a prior arrest, yet 92% of girls completing the program had no further involvement with the justice system a year later.

The traditional approach to homelessness focused on counseling and treating people with mental illnesses or those recovering from substance abuse while they lived in emergency shelters or on the streets. We now understand that approach does not work. Instead, proven solutions to homelessness include permanent supportive housing and rapid re-housing, accompanied by the supportive services—such as medical and mental health care and employment supports—necessary to help people remain in their homes.

A 2015 study supported by The Children’s Campaign in Florida shows that civil citations increase public safety, improve youth opportunities and save lots of taxpayer money. In this session you’ll learn more about how civil citation programs work; how they can make a significant impact on improving future life opportunities for youth in education, employment, housing and much more; and the role philanthropy can play to help increase and strengthen the use of civil citation programs in Florida.

CF Insights asks a simple but important question – What if each community foundation could know what all community foundations collectively know? Learn how to provide up-to-date profile and financial data to CF Insights, and how to use the platform to run reports illuminating your operating model and performance in comparison to your peers.