COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS ENGAGE IN WELCOMING WORK

How is community philanthropy currently engaging in welcoming work?

What are the opportunities for community foundations to be champions of local immigrant inclusion?

These are questions we pondered in 2022 as we invited over 20 community foundations to dialogue about what it means to advance welcoming priorities and build local welcoming infrastructure in their communities.

Community foundations from the interview stage of this project were invited to a special deep-dive session at the 2022 Welcoming Interactive. Ten leaders joined this gathering where they heard a concrete and inspiring example from a Welcoming Network member about their work to further welcoming efforts in partnership with their local community foundation. The foundations also discussed the Welcoming Standard and its alignment with the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals. These insights inform a white paper released in 2023. We are grateful for support from The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to engage community foundations as new champions of local welcoming work.