Creating, measuring and communicating social value: the challenges facing the CSS program. Community development: a context of collaboration -- Strands of collaboration: the intertwining stories of CDAF, GNEE and GPCF and how they came to collaborate -- GNEE, GPCF, and CDAF: how collaboration is not for the faint of heart -- How it has worked: how the CSS program has built capacity among local organizations -- Creating, measuring and communicating social value: the challenges facing the CSS program.
Summary:
This book is intended to educate the public about how the CSS program evolved, the growing pains experienced, and the solutions and collaborations that developed along the way. Interviews with several local partner organizations (Claude W. and Dolly Ahrens Foundation, Grinnell Newburg Educational Excellence and Greater Poweshiek Community Foundation) are included in the book. The national Council on Foundations recognized CDAF in 2010 for innovative leadership, bold vision and significant impact in creating the CSS program (Community Support Services Program), which now serves as a model for other community and family foundations.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.