Outback Philanthropy

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Outback Philanthropy

• Presented by Jeff Pryor, Ed.D.
• The Anschutz Family Foundation
• [phone]
• JeffPryor_at_TAC-Denver.com

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From the Land Rush - Your Roots?
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What is Rural?

• 23 different definitions
• OMB 50,000 at the county level
• 2,500 is the Census
• 25,000 is generally acceptable
• What about proximity?
• What about economy?
• What about frontier?

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The Faces of Rural?

• It aint farms anymore,
• but ag biz is the largest
• Working landscapes
• Mixed economy
• Rural resort or amenity

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Fund Rural?

• Grantmakers often times have too little
  perspective or rural although it is the same
  distance to Vail as it is to Akron - they just
  dont visit!
• Not on the screen!

• If more people in urban, then why rural?
• The proposals we receive are not up to par from
  rural locations - maybe all of the smart people
  have moved to the city.

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10 Rural Observations

• Is there electricity out there?
• To counter - went to the experts and the real
  experts!

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1 Wisdom or Bumpkin?
Lake Wobegon
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• The weather is more important that the federal
  deficit
• Second generation are still considered new comers
• You hit the Scan Button and on the radio and it
  goes round

• You could name everyone you graduated with
• You refer to THE stop light
• You said the f word and your parents knew about
  it within the hour

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2 Nations Soul

• The roots argument fundamentally important to
  the nation's soul

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3 We dont know

• Wal-Mart
• Youth movement
• Baby boomers
• New economy

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4 Sprawl

• do away with rural
• --- everybody moves to a
• gridlock city!!!

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5 Pigs and Prisons

• Colonial - rural economies have been forced to
  take on what the cities dont want including bad
  dudes!

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6 The Breakfast of Champions

• Tiger Woods makes 10 cents on the sale of box of
  Wheaties, the farmer makes 5 - are our priorities
  straight?

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7 Roots and Wings

• The Donut Effect
• or Roots, Wings and Politics

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8 Some Rural Stats

• 20 live in rural locations
• 25 of rural population is over 200 of poverty
• (18,500 vs. 26,000)
• Food and fiber jobs
• Georgia 256 K
• Nevada 17K

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9 To fund rural - its the right thing!

• community cannot be viable in they have to travel
  long distances to access services
• controversial issues are difficult to fund
  locally

Need in rural (chronic illness, housing,
underinsured, poverty, infrastructure, disease,
aging isolation of aged, segregation)
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10 A Place for SUVs to go
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Reactions from funders

• Rural people are unique, make the grant money go
  further, and are appreciative
• affects the whole community
• not lost in a large budget
• the people are amazing!!

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If interested, then what?

• Avoid the large bucket approach
• Look for the can do attitude
• Dont use city ideas - Idalia
• Build capacity
• Develop relationships - stay tuned in
• Success of the effort
• Build incremental success
• Listen and learn!

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One Idea! Philanthropy Days

• Rounding Up Relationships
• Started in Western Colorado
• Held Twice Per Year

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Mountains - and a lot more!
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Value to the Seeker

• Shared Goal
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Training
• Heightened local participation (elected
  officials, government, business, stewards,
  volunteers, press)
• Enhanced Capacity
• Grants

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Value to the Grantor

• See the bigger picture
• Observe target organizations in relationship to
  their communities
• Efficiency
• Meet regional leadership
• Enhance NPO capacity
• Discover opportunities

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Additional Benefits
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The Results

• Targeted grant making
• Building NPO capacity
• Expanding resources
• Improving communications
• Successful grants

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Resource

• Neighborhood Funders Group
• 6862 Elm Street 320
• McLean, VA 22101
• [phone]
• Pat Taylor
• pat_at_nfg.org
• September 21-23 in Detroit