Eleanor Woodward Sacks is a consultant with Ekstrom & Associates. She brings an impressive range of experiences in research, writing and project management. Eleanor is particularly well versed in community foundations in the United States and internationally. She has conducted studies and written extensively on the subject. As well, Eleanor has experience assisting individual community foundations, directly and through her work as program coordinator of the Council on Foundations Organizational Development Assistance Program (ODA) for community foundations.
Publications include:
"Community foundations: Symposium on a global movement. Current issues for the global community foundation movement informed by the knowledge shared and lessons learned at the Symposium in Berlin, Germany, 2-4 December 2004." May 2006. Available on www.wingsweb.org
"Community foundations as (local) expressions of global civil society." A chapter in Bürgerstiftungen in Deutschland - Bilanz und Perspektiven (Community Foundations in Germany - Outcomes and Perspectives. Published in German by: Leske und Budrich. Reihe. Book series: Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie (vormals Bürgerschaftliches Engagement und Nonprofit-Sektor), Band X. (Civil Society and Democracy, Vol. 10). December 2005.
"International Connections: Resources that support the growth and development of community foundations globally." Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support-Community Foundations (WINGS-CF), October 2005. Available on www.wingsweb.org
"2005 Community Foundation Global Status Report," WINGS-CF, May 2005. Available on www.wingsweb.org
"Serving a Wider Community: Community Foundations' Use of Geographic Component Funds and Other Strategies and Structures to Cover Territory," WINGS-CF, May 2002. Available on www.wingsweb.org
"An International Perspective on the History, Development and Characteristics of Community Foundations," co-authored with Suzanne L. Feurt. The first chapter in the book Building Philanthropic and Social Capital: The work of community foundations, Bertelsmann Foundation Press, May 2001
"Building Better Community Foundations: The Organizational Development Assistance Program, 1993-1996." Council on Foundations, March 1999
Eleanor holds a BA and MA in history from the University of Rhode Island and resides in Portland, Oregon, with her husband.
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