Small Groups for Deeper Learning

Learning Circles
Embedded Funders Group

Embedded Funders Group is a learning circle of ten foundations who share the common experience of "funding in their own backyard".  Launched several years ago by the University of Chicago's Chapin Hall Center for Research on Children with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Embedded Funders group now hosts annual sharing meetings where dialogue is deep, frank and inspiring.

Current members of the Embedded Funders Group Learning Circle include:

Cherokee Preservation Foundation
Comer Science and Education Foundation
Denver Foundation
Gifford Foundation
Humboldt Area Foundation
Incarnate Word Foundation
Jacobs Family Foundation
J.F. Maddox Foundation
Piton Foundation
The Skillman Foundation

Click here to read more about what it means to be an embedded funder.


Neighborhood Resource Center Learning Circle

A learning circle that includes key staff with local organizations that are organized to support local grassroots groups and leaders with technical assistance, training, convening, coaching, and access to information. 

Group members include:

Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center
Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods (Winston-Salem)
Neighborhood Resource Center of Colorado
Nonprofit Assistance Center (Seattle)
PRO Neighborhoods (Tucson)
Neighborhoods Resource Center (Nashville)

A kick off gathering for this learning circle was held April 14-15, 2008 in Tucson, hosted by PRO Neighborhoods.

Contact Janis Foster Richardson for information about joining this learning circle.