THIRD THURSDAY PROGRAM
Funder Collaboratives: Why & How Funders Come Together
Sponsor: The Standard
Thursday, July 17, 2008
11:45 am – 1:30 pm
Northwest Health Foundation, Bamboo Room
221 NW Second Avenue, Suite 300
Portland
$15 Members
$35 Non-members
or 503.226.6340
In Oregon and around the nation, funders often come together to advance their missions and increase their impact. Collaboratives form for information exchange, co-learning, strategic alignment (both formal and informal), joint ventures, and pooled funding*. When should your foundation consider forming a collaborative? What should you take into consideration? What can you expect if you join a collaborative?
Panelists representing three notable Oregon funder collaboratives (Foundations for a Better Oregon; Get Ready, Get Set, Go: Building Capacity in Oregon’s CASA Chapters; and the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative) will explore questions such as when collaboratives makes sense, effective use of time, coordination and staffing needs, building trust, levels of participation, large and small funder partnerships, relationship to grantees and prospective grantees, exit strategies, and more.
Speakers:
Foundations for a Better Oregon
Doug Stamm, Chief Executive Officer, Meyer Memorial Trust
Get Ready, Get Set, Go: Building Capacity in Oregon’s CASA Chapters
Jeff Anderson, Oregon Community Foundation
Toni Arenz, Juan Young Trust
Early Childhood Funders Learning Circle
Bruce Kelley, Trustee and Chief Administrative Officer, Lora L. and Martin N. Kelley Family Foundation