Date: May 8, 10:00 - 11:00 Room: Stephen A/B Presenter: James Stauch

1. Futurecasting Canada
Anticipating the role of
Community Foundations
In 2025 and beyond…
CFC Conference – The Wild, Wild Why, 2015
@CPMRU #communityprosperity

2. The Institute for
Community Prosperity
connects learning,
research and change
leadership to build
community and strengthen
the common good.
Community
Change-
makers
Research
Students

8. 1. Fiscal and market dynamics
2. Political dynamic as
Canadians and Albertans
head to the polls
3. Trends in philanthropy
4. “Meta-themes” related to
community well-being:
Alberta’s vulnerabilities exposed
A social innovation tipping point
Convergence of the local and the global
Poverty: Safety nets and snares
Boomer Cities: Aging in place
Social finance goes mainstream
Disruption and re-alignment of the “sector”
Community leadership emerges as a core need
Marketization of education
Embrace of place: Cultural vibrancy and
reconciliation of history
Local responses to a sweltering Earth

9. • Global
• Canada
• Alberta
• Calgary
• Equities
• Interest Rates
• Currency

11. • Social motivators of giving amplified through social media
• New frontiers in understanding impact
• Strategic v. open source philanthropy
• Pro-cyclical responses to market conditions
• Design thinking challenging the “dance of deception”
• The social innovation train has arrived
• Philanthropy v. democracy
• Shared value as a public expectation
• Goodbye charity, hello social change
• Platforms, apps and user-generated media

13. From blogpost @ Deepclimate.org

14. • Systems thinking
• Collective impact
• Social labs / change labs
• Design thinking / human-centered design
• Maker movement
• Big data / open data
• Shared value

15. “We don’t want to confront the fact that our safety net is
not strong enough to raise people out of poverty but is
strong enough to entrap people.”
- Hugh Segal, Huffington Post Canada

16. “The huge baby boom generation, which
has transformed public and private
institutions throughout its life course thus
far, is poised to change our communities
once again.”
- Andrew Scharlach,Creating Age-FriendlyCommunities,
Generations (2009)

19.  The NP Sector
 …
 ….
 …
“Our Stories are all too familiar. The foundation on which many nonprofits are built is
flawed and simplistic, focused on symptoms rather than the underlying set of problems,
developed in isolation rather than as a part of an integrated system, and organized to
administer a narrowly tailored program or benefit rather than generate sustained,
significant change for a person or community. As a result, change is incremental, not big or
bold enough to make a lasting and transformative impact.”
Shore, Bill, Darell Hammond andAmy Celep. . “When Good is
Not Good Enough”, in the StanfordSocial Innovation Review,
Fall, 2013 (p. 2).
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves
and forget about progress and prosperity for
our community... Our ambitions must be broad
enough to include the aspirations and needs of
others, for their sakes and for our own.”
- Cesar Chavez

24. In 10 years…
A) If things DON’T go well, what can be
expected?
B) If things DO go well, what is possible?
Capture these both via a MEDIA “HEADLINE”

25. Think about your role as a community
foundation in working toward the good
headline and preventing the bad one.
A) What do you have to put in place to make
that happen?
B) What can you do NOW?

26. • A three-year SSHRC-supported research development project exploring the social impact of
private, public, and community foundations in Canada.
• Partners:
Research

27. @CPMRU #communityprosperity
James Stauch jstauch@mtroyal.ca
Pat Letizia pletizia@mtroyal.ca
Leslie Cornelisse lcornelisse@mtroyal.ca