WINGS community foundations

Meetings

The WINGS-CF constituent group (formerly the WINGS-CF network) convenes global meetings ever two to three years to convene grantmaker associations and support organisations serving community foundations.

• WINGS-CF peer meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006
  Report (PDF - 161 KB)
• WINGS-CF face-to-face meeting, Berlin, Germany, 2004
  Report (PDF - 297 KB)
  Go to the meeting page.
• WINGS-CF peer meeting, Sydney, Australia, 2002
  Report without appendices (PDF - 959 KB)
  Report with appendices including workshop notes, the meeting agenda, and a list of participants (PDF - 1.2 MB)
• WINGS-CF peer meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 2000
  Report (PDF - 1.0 MB)
• WINGS-CF peer meeting, Miami, USA, 1998
  Report included in Building the Worldwide Community Foundation Movement (April 2000) (PDF - 636 KB)

Community foundations: Symposium on a global movement (Berlin, 2004), was organised by WINGS to look at the role of community foundations and their impact worldwide.

Programmes and resources

WINGS-CF engages in community foundation promotion and communication at key international events.

WINGS was the original incubator of the Global Fund for Community Foundations makes small grants to develop the capacities of community foundations and other local philanthropic institutions which are grantmakers and which raise funds from local sources.

For a history of WINGS-CF download WINGS-CF: beginning to record the history (PDF - 265 KB) by Gaynor Humphreys.

In October 2005 WINGS-CF published International Connections: resources that support the growth and development of community foundations globally (PDF - 331 KB), a report documenting the many transnational links in the community foundation field. The report was researched and prepared by Eleanor W. Sacks.