Toward Greater Effectiveness in Community Change: Challenges and Responses for Philanthropy: Prudence Brown, Robert Chaskin, Ralph Hamilton, and Harold Richman

Foundations of all types seek to improve low-income communities and the circumstances and opportunities of the people who live in them. Their efforts have produced promising results: houses have been built, organizations strengthened, residents mobilized, collaboration enhanced, services delivered, employment increased, and so forth. But funders acknowledge that their support has yielded less for communities in the short term than they and their community partners initially hoped and that the work is more complex and longer-term than initially anticipated.