1. The Community Capacity Fund: Understanding its Role in Strengthening the Washington, D.C. Region After 9/11
- Author:
- Rachel Mosher-Williams
- Publication Date:
- 09-2002
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- The Community Capacity Fund (CCF), a program of Washington Grantmakers, is acknowledged as a new model of national funding for local, collaborative grantmaking. In the face of serious community needs and concerns post–September 11, 2001, as well as many potential ways to address those needs, the Fund developed a framework for strengthening the ability of nonprofits to respond to the terrorist attacks. An investment by the Ford Foundation (and, ultimately, several other funders) in the Washington, D.C., region's recovery enabled a large group of experienced local grant makers and nonprofit leaders to jointly translate that framework into action. Within less than a year, CCF awarded $1,400,055 in grants to organizations advocating for and reemploying workers dislocated by September 11, as well as to organizations developing cross-jurisdictional efforts to respond to future disasters.
- Topic:
- Economics, Human Welfare, and Non-Governmental Organization
- Political Geography:
- United States and Washington