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BREAKFAST PANELS
FUNDERS BREAKFAST
Foundation and corporate grant-makers
huddled to discuss the opportunities and
challenges of funding comprehensive
community development … as opposed
to funding more traditional civic and
cultural activities.
Julia Stasch, vice-president for
human and community development
at the MacArthur Foundation, led off
the discussion by explaining why the
foundation elected to partner with
LISC/Chicago.
that is so embedded in the
neighborhoods … on a
neighborhood basis, when you
divide it (MacArthur grant dollars)
by 16, it’s really not that much …
This approach let’s a funder say
‘I don’t have to create something,
it’s already established.’
“ The beauty of the LISC approach
is that it is neither top-down nor
bottom-up.”
JULIA STASCH
“ We saw this (NCP) as a way to
scale up MacArthur’s investment
in neighborhoods.
“ We sought a partnership with
someone (LISC) whose business
it is to bring about change in
neighborhoods … We saw it as a
way to create coalitions and
collaboratives … However much
money we have to invest is not as
important as the leveraging that
can be accomplished by a LISC
Alice Walker Duff, program executive
for The Atlantic Philanthropies, said that
NCP provided Atlantic with a stable,
up-and-running platform from which to
bring to Chicago its enrichment program
for middle schools called Integrated
Services in Schools. Said Duff:
“ We made the investment because
we were building on such a
strong foundation.”
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