Community Foundations & Civic Networks

Community foundations, United Ways, 211 networks, and collective-impact backbones, organizations defined by a place. Route the next grant cycle to the census tract nobody's covering instead of the one everyone already knows.

We Build Models for
Community
Networks

To Route Resources (Capital, Partnerships, & Information) more Efficiently

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Map the Network

  1. 990 Schedule I grant histories
  2. 211 resource databases
  3. United Way partner rosters
  4. Backbone MOUs and steering committees
  5. Board overlap from 990 Part VII
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Find the Gaps

  1. Tracts with no funded org
  2. Two backbones, one program
  3. Grantees funded three times
  4. Orgs 211 knows and no funder does
  5. The map that leaves with the program officer
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Close the Gaps

  1. Route the next cycle to the hole
  2. Show the board who else committed
  3. Merge the duplicate table
  4. Stand up a backbone where none exists
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Coordination Fails From:
  1. 1Siloed information — grants system, 211 database and coalition rosters never join
  2. 2Complexity exceeds bandwidth — one program officer holding 400 orgs in their head
  3. 3Incentives reward fragmentation — every funder wants its own portal and report
  4. 4Trust doesn't scale — the network is personal, so it dies with the relationship
  5. 5Self-oriented entities — each org optimizes its own grant, not the county's coverage
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