Council of Michigan Foundations
Search
Starting a Community Foundation
 
Home 

Introduction
 
Starting a Community Foundation
Organization and Management
 
Strengthening Existing Community Foundations
 
Assisting Community Foundations
 
 
  About CMF

Michigan Community Foundations

Michigan Community Foundations' Youth Project
   
©2003 Council of Michigan Foundations, with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. 

Starting a community foundation is a complicated business.  This section presents:

Factors to consider at the start-up phase will help a community determine the feasibility of creating an independent foundation versus establishing an affiliate relationship with an existing community foundation. A community may be best served by linking with a neighboring, professionally staffed community foundation with experience. 

The information is divided into the following catagories:

How To - strategies and tools used by the Council of Michigan Foundations to help communities start a community foundation.

Lessons Learned - lesson we have learned that may be helpful to other community foundations.

Other Resources - key resources from outside of Michigan. 

The strategies, tools, lessons learned and resources include links to websites, publications, issues papers, practical tools and sample documents to read, print out and/or download.