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Community of practice
Discover how the field is growing internationally. 

Share practices and find answers to new questions.

Grow your resourceful people asset base. 

We curate spaces for conversations that bridge geographies. 

Connect with the pioneers helping new initiatives to emerge and with leaders consolidating transformative community foundation movements.

Architects designing together

We set out to assemble systems for collaboration, knowing from experience the difference that having support structures can make in our countries’ civic and social ecosystems.

How this scaffolding is imagined – its roles, resources and relationships – and then set up contributes to the capacity of community foundations to act as support structures themselves, locally, compounding the transformations that a connected field of community philanthropy actors can have at the country level.

 

Our approach

Cultivating a field of strategic practice

Practicing creativity, connectedness and responsiveness – these are the threads running through the community spaces we curate for emergent and experienced leaders growing the community foundation field globally, with partners from the philanthropy sector.

In this work, we preach the power of community, but sometimes forget of our own. Counting on a community of generous peers to share experiences, address questions about practice and think together responses to new challenges gives strength.

It also gives space to reconnect to our stance as designers and strategists that cultivate quality practices in our philanthropy ecosystems.

Our ambition is to shift philanthropic practice towards building the new, expanded ecosystems where agency to drive transformation is incentivized, multiplied and distributed.

Practitioners Map

Discover the people assets of the field and put yourself on the map
Add your profile
Know who to connect with in different countries based on your current interests and flag yourself as a resource for other practitioners.
To help peers discover each other’s work, questions and experience, we are building a map of practitioners supporting community foundations movement in different countries and at different stages of development.

Thinkfrastructure

A conference about community foundations and their supporters as architects of change
Register
June 14 - 15
Join a practitioners-centred conference for philanthropy and development professionals who take an infrastructure view of community foundations and their support organizations.

It explores how a systems-level positioning opens wider possibilities for transformational action and considers the strategic and practical implications of think(ing like an in)frastructure organization.

As the annual meeting space for the international community of professionals supporting community foundations, it is an opportunity to convene around shared questions.
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Practitioners Circles

Group around an issue from your practice with your peers
Submit a topic
Convene a group of peers to troubleshoot an issue from your community foundation or support work that resonates across geographies.

You can mobilize the collective intelligence of your fellow practitioners by submitting a question or challenge that is valuable to pursue in a group conversation focused on finding solutions.

We help you by curating a group of contributors that have experience relevant to your challenge and are invested in testing approaches developed through peers thinking together.

The Association for the Practice of Transformation (APT) supports the intentional and systemic transformations of individuals, organizations, communities and societies by stimulating collaboration, research, learning, social innovation and strategic thinking.

INSPIRE is a program powered by APT with the generous support of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

Contact us
hello@inspire-change.org

We are a Romania-based nonprofit legal entity. Most of our team is based in Romania, UTC+3.

© 2024 Association for the Practice of Transformation

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