Expanding what institutions notice.

About.

Community Foundation Field Notes is an independent publication and growing archive examining community foundations and the institutions and initiatives around them. Through reporting, observation, history, and inquiry, it examines community foundations as a field, and looks beyond philanthropy for ideas that might help us see it differently.

A few of the core benefits:

  • Create independent interpretation for the field.

  • Help knowledge travel across institutional boundaries.

  • Create shared intellectual infrastructure.

  • Preserve things the sector otherwise loses.

  • Expand the field’s imagination about what a community foundation can be.