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Better Together: Regional Alliances and Small Community Foundation Sustainability

Publication date:

August, 2005

This research project finds that regional alliances take multiple forms and, despite inherent challenges and potential pitfalls, are a valuable vehicle for community foundations seeking to minimize operating costs and enhance service quality. In particular, regional alliances can be mission-enhancing investments for small community foundations, strengthening them as individual organizations and, by extension, boosting the impact of the entire community foundation field.