ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the digital age foundation, takes the digital transformation in earnest, better fulfill its historic mission. The community foundations are uniquely positioned to combine digital and traditional face-to-face networking strategies and leaders from different local sectors. American societies entered a new digital age. Its emerging information economy is accelerating the creative destruction of key industrial-age institutions. Know-how separates success from failure in the digital age. The digital age foundations increase the communications capacity. The foundation websites should be easy to change in real time from any location, offering opportunity for public comment. Foundations need to hire more digital people. The respecting inclusiveness and place-making, connections between cyberspace, the digital age foundation would engage its community and avoid making the same mistakes others, particularly newspapers. Community foundations, in fact, are uniquely positioned to combine digital and traditional face-to-face networking strategies between and among leaders from different local sectors. Discovery of the facts can save money and time.
