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Community foundations and the associations and the organizations that support them and their development around the world have long been a focus of WINGS.
To find out more about where community foundations exist and are developing around the world, please visit the Global Status Report page.

Meetings
The WINGS-CF constituent group (formerly the WINGS-CF network) convened global meetings every two to three years to bring together grantmaker associations and support organisations serving community foundations.

• Community Foundations Satellite Meeting Report (PDF - 161 KB) -  Bangkok, Thailand, 2006
  
  
• Community foundations: Symposium on a global movement - Berlin, 2004 
  
  

Community foundations: Symposium on a global movement - Berlin, Germany / 2 - 4 December 2004
The Symposium was an international gathering of community foundation representatives from around the globe, who met in Berlin in December 2004 to look at the role of community foundations and their impact, worldwide.
The Symposium focused on larger issues and questions for community foundations in a global context, such as:
• the role community foundations play in building community and promoting civil society;
• the effects of local traditions and culture on the structure of community foundations from country to country and region to region; and
• the role of supportive environments in advancing community foundation development, including the role of organizations that support the development of community foundations, and legal and regulatory environments.
A second aim of the Symposium was to promote more academic research on and critical evaluation of community foundation issues. The Symposium broke new ground in inviting academic researchers to participate. Academic papers were integrated into the practitioners' sessions, where appropriate and beneficial, with academics giving their perspectives on practitioners' topics, and practitioners also commenting on academic papers.
Related information
• Report (PDF - 741 KB)



• WINGS-CFace-to-Face Meeting Report (PDF - 297 KB) - Berlin, Germany, 2004
  
  
• 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)