The Community Platform

1. The Community Platform Sandi Scannelli President/CEO The Community Foundation for Brevard sandis@cfbrevard.org Tom Pollak, Director, National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute tpollak@urban.org202-261-5536 Paula Hickman, J.D. Executive Director Community Foundation of North Louisiana hickman@nlacf.org

2. Introduction Heather L. Scott Managing Director Community Foundation Services Council on Foundations

3. Overview Tom Pollak National Center for Charitable Statistics The Urban Institute

4. The Community Platform • Website tools • Data on needs and resources • National & local partners • Empowering people, organizations & projects from grassroots to “grasstops” • Knowledge on best practices – programs, nonprofit-community collaborations, and civic engagement • Creating a national “learning community”

5. Three Dimensions to Building Civic Capacity • Technology & Data Dimension • Organization & Program Dimension Effectiveness, coordination, planning • Civic or Moral DimensionLeadership, civic capacity, & a shared commitment to the public good

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13. A Flexible Community Toolkit • Donor resources for financial analysis & more • Mapping programs, organizations and resources in relationship to needs and identifying service gaps • Sharing resources, volunteers, & staff • Organizing knowledge • Mapping and charting community indicators • Tracking program-level outcomes & performance • Community project management • Customizable neighborhood & project pages

14. Louisiana Paula Hickman Executive Director The Community Foundation of Northern Louisiana

15. Louisiana Initiative for Nonprofit & Community Collaboration • Initial goals • Story of implementation • Resources for donors • Next steps and new projects

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23. Financial Analysis • Using comprehensive data from the IRS Form 990, financial analysis provides detailed financial information on revenues, expenditures, charitable donations (selected years), assets, and liabilities.

24. Program Outcomes • Module developed in collaboration with The Center for What Works and the Urban Institute. • Nonprofits can track quantifiable program outcome indicators daily, weekly, quarterly, or annually. • Analyze trends and performance (e.g., graduation rates, number of families served) for individual organizations as well as communities, fields/industries, peer groups, and member organizations to produce statistics on program accomplishments. • Join with other organizations and discuss programs, track metrics, and coordinate their service delivery in order to continuously improve the quality of their programs. .

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26. Brevard County, Florida Sandi Scannelli President/CEO The Community Foundation for Brevard County

27. for Good. for Brevard. forever.

28. Our Community Brevard County

29. Some Quick CFB & Brevard Facts • Population: 532,000 • Challenging geography – County 72 miles long • Community Foundation – 30 years old; manages roughly $11 Million in assets; small staff size – 2.5 FTE.

30. Some Issues Leading Up to 2011 • Epic sequence of county calamities: housing & construction crash—foreclosures/short sales, economy died, shuttle program ended (impact est. at 23,000 in lost jobs), unemployment lingers • Fragmented nonprofit sector with no centralization of information on the sector; not easily engaged in community problem solving • Community Foundation? – virtually unknown, not visible

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32. What is Connect Brevard? A web-based tool built on a platform developed by NCCS, data-populated from IRS and census bureau, data locally supplemented that readily maps and provides information on every tax-exempt organization in Brevard County — all in one place and maps/provides community information. Brevard County has: • 2,074 non-profits • 1421 Public Charities Who should use this site? • Nonprofits, Donors, volunteers

33. Connect Brevard Advisory Council The following individuals served as invaluable advisors in the development of Connect Brevard. • Kristin L. Bakke, President, LEAD Brevard • John Byron, Principal, Sun State Strategy Inc. • Jan Conrad, Brevard Workforce • Libby Donoghue, Executive Director, Brevard 211 • Carey Gleason, Associate VP of Advancement, Florida Institute of Technology • Ian Golden, Director of Housing and Human Services, Brevard County • Debbie Kelly, Community Investor Global Corporate Citizenship, Boeing • Shawna Kelsch, Chair, Brevard Healthcare Forum • Janice Kershaw, Executive Director, Brevard Schools Foundation • Beverly Lampley, Catholic Charities of Central Florida • Elizabeth A. Lee, Director, Community Impact, United Way of Brevard • James E. Luce, Consultant, Organization and Management Systems. • Christine Michaels, President, Melbourne Chamber of East Central Florida • Thomas H. Pollak, The Urban Institute, National Center for Charitable Statistics

34. 1st in the NATION to launch the Platform!(…and in Brevard, we love to launch!)

35. Connect Brevard

45. Community Statistics

47. Connect Brevard CAN DOWNLOAD

48. We Learned About Ourselves • Compared to national average – same % of volunteers (123,200), but #8 in hours/volunteer (56.1 hrs vs. 34.1 hrs) • 25.8 million hours/yr = $550.8 million in service • Most hours spent fundraising – 37.7% vs 26.4% national; 2nd by collecting/distributing food (29.2%) • The Arts suffered critically in the economic downturn – the only subsector to end 2010 with negative net income (by millions).

49. We Learned About Ourselves • We have 60+ private foundations in the county – and we reached out and held a conference for them; for first time will be doing a collaborative grant makers briefing for nonprofits around the county. • Statistics (attributed to CFB) quoted by every media source this fall and at major events such as AFP Philanthropy Awards, Florida Today VRA Awards, Space Coast Living Holiday Giving Guide.

50. We’re Threading People Together • Private Foundation looked to us to generate a list of all animal welfare groups in County for grant making. • Civic clubs using site to find speakers and projects related to interests or geography. • Like-kind organizations and people finding each other to explore collaboration vs. duplication. • Media using it for research in reporting and to find philanthropic people to feature in press stories.