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.

The Global Fund for Community Foundations is a new WINGS programme created to promote the growth and sustainability of community foundations in developing and transitioning countries.

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.