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Community Foundation Network (CFN) aims to promote the concept of
community foundations in the UK, stimulate and support their growth
and best practice, and give support to individual community foundations
and their networking with others.
CFN’s objective is to ensure a network of thriving community
foundations throughout the UK, each one able to strengthen their
local community through strategic grant-making and excellent service
provision to donors.
To achieve its purpose, CFN upholds a number of external values,
including:
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Proactively providing leadership, specialist knowledge and
support to members and to the broader community foundation field |
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Sharing and promoting knowledge and best practice within the
worldwide community foundation movement |
To do this, CFN strives to be:
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A learning and leadership organisation |
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A strong, confident, supportive, cooperative organisation
that demonstrates respect, shows trust and understanding, and
practices integrity in all its activities |
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Supportive of, and encouraging towards, open communication
both internally and externally |
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Open and transparent in all its operations |
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Inclusive, welcoming diversity and practising
equal opportunity |
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A model of good staff practice to members and
potential members |
CFN welcomes feedback from members, potential donors and professional
advisers as well as those aspiring to develop a community foundation
in the UK or keen to know more about philanthropy through the community
foundation movement.
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