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Register today for the Whole Funding Workshop!

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www.wholecommunities.org/workshops/

T H E C H A L L E N G E

Today’s world is shaped by fragmentation, stemming in

large part from the divides of class, race, politics and

privilege. Fragmentation has entrenched social and

environmental organizations into their own specialized

silos, such as environmental justice, land conservation,

food justice, anti-oppression, sustainable development,

and more. And yet the complexity of today’s challenges

— from climate change to water scarcity to undoing

racism — makes it impossible for any effort to succeed

in isolation. These times ask us to work together,

to find unified values, a shared language and

common story.

W H AT I S W H O L E F U N D I N G ?

Whole funding is a practical approach to achieving

tangible goals, not by increasing funding, but by

inspiring greater collaboration, resulting in transforma-

tion and innovation. Grounded in today’s economic

realities, whole funding is about reweaving the isolated

strands of activism into more potent and resilient

movements for change.

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• How can funders help organizations and

communities reach the full potential of

their visions?

L O G I S T I C S A N D C O S T F O R T H E N E X T W O R K S H O P

W H E N September 4 – 7, 2012W H E R E Center for Whole Communities at Knoll Farm in the Mad River Valley of Vermont

F A C U L T Y Peter Forbes, Deborah Schoenbaum, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

C O S T $750. – $1,200.

We are committed to making all of our programs available to as many environmental and social change leaders as possible. Program tuition is determined on a sliding scale to accommodate individuals from organizations of all sizes. All of our workshop pricesinclude room and board.

Group rates and scholarships are available.

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A B O U T T H E W O R K S H O PThe goal of the workshop is to help the funding

community play the key role of helping organizations

and communities become more adaptive and resilient,

less competitive, and to foster coalitions that are inclu-

sive, creative, and politically agile. Center for Whole

Communities offers the Whole Funding Workshop as a

safe, trusted forum for the funding community to

consider challenging questions and reveal lasting solu-

tions together. This workshop is a four-day intensive

designed for, and in collaboration with, the philanthropic

community.

The Whole Funding Workshop explores how funders

and funding institutions can achieve these attributes

themselves and model them for grantees. It will help

funders develop their own transformational leadership

skills, enhancing their ability to support movements for

change in a troubled economy. In this workshop, funders

will learn how to:

• Help funding institutions themselves and their

grantees rise above limiting silos and collaborate

with others toward larger common goals.

• Begin to effectively address the power dynamic

between grantor and grantee.

• Develop the funders’ voice, with humility and self-

awareness, about race, power and privilege.

• Understand the practical role that story, dialogue,

and personal creativity can play in visioning some-

thing new for funders and for grantees.

• Find new, transformational ways to support grantees

beyond general operating or specific program fund-

ing as they work toward greater collaboration.

W E WO U L D L I K E TO AC K N OW L E D G E

This workshop came to be in 2009 through the thinking

partnership of the following leaders in the philanthropic

community:

David Grant formerly of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Diane Ives of the Kendeda Fund

Jenny Russell of the Merck Family Fund

Ann Fowler Wallace of the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities

Kolu Zigbi of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

A b o u t C E N T E R F O R W H O L E C O M M U N I T I E S

Center for Whole Communities (CWC) fosters

inclusive communities that are strongly rooted in

place and where all people — regardless of income,

race, or background — have access to and a

healthy relationship with the natural world.

Founded in 2003, Center for Whole Communities

has earned a national reputation for encouraging

new movements for change by working directly

leader-to-leader to create the conditions, tools and

experiences to foster stronger, more innovative

change-making efforts. CWC is based at Knoll Farm,

an organic working farm and learning center that

overlooks the Mad River Valley of central Vermont.

Whole Thinking Retreats, Advanced Leadership

Workshops, and trainings are held at our learning

center, as well as nationwide.

F O R I N D I V I D U A L S :

Center for Whole Communities workshops are

offered at Knoll Farm in central Vermont and at

other locations around the country throughout

the year. For a full calendar of workshops, please

visit our website at www.wholecommunities.org.

On our website you will also find our sliding scale

of fees. Through the generous support of our fun-

ders we are able to substantially underwrite the

cost of many of our programs.

F O R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S :

Center for Whole Communities leads workshops

for organizations seeking greater effectiveness

or looking for new tools to help them catalyze

broader change. We bring our faculty and curricu-

lum to you and tailor our workshop to your

specific concerns and goals. To talk further about

how we can serve your organization through one

of our programs, please contact:

Alex Bauermeister, Senior Program Manager

[email protected]

802.496.5690