COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS SURVEY

Welcome

to the Inaugural Communications Benchmarking Survey for Community Foundations.

This first-ever, field-wide, and free initiative of Turn Two Communications is steeped in the wisdom of an Advisory Committee of communications leaders from community foundations from every corner of the U.S. 

The Challenge 

Now more than ever, communities need their local community foundations to bring people together to address pressing issues and create long-term change.

To achieve this goal, community foundations must communicate at a high level.

But there is a problem. 

Due to the lack of a centralized and field-wide tool for collecting, benchmarking, and sharing information about communications and marketing practices, community foundation leaders must rely on one-off peer conversations or invest in expensive studies to answer: “What are communications best practices for community foundations?”

“What are communications best practices for community foundations?”

The Solution

We are addressing this problem by creating the first-ever, field-wide, and free Inaugural Communications Benchmarking Survey for Community Foundations.

Each respondent’s community foundation will receive:

Individualized results. While overall results will be anonymized and aggregated field-wide, you will get customized results benchmarked with community foundations of similar asset sizes and by other key demographics.

Recommendations for improving your communications based on your results.

Invitations to join webinars and events that provide insights on survey results, trends, and best practices.

An optional free 30-minute advisory call to discuss your foundation’s results and goals.

The Timeline

May 1

Survey Launches.

May 15

Informational webinar about the survey. Register here. 

May 30

Survey Closes.

September

Public release of survey results.

September - December

Webinars and events. Complimentary advisory calls with respondents.

2027

Second survey launches, which will be biennial. 

The Wisdom (our Advisory Committee)

The survey is guided by an advisory group of more than 25 community foundation communications pros.

This diverse group of experts represent community foundations of all sizes — from every corner of the U.S.

It also includes partners from regional and national membership groups that support the field.

The Co-Chairs

The committee is led by three community foundation communications experts.

The Committee

We are grateful to this esteemed group of experts who are volunteering their time to support this effort.