LEaP Lab: How Funders Can Help Build Community Power

Lessons from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities Initiative

In September 2021, CSSP hosted a virtual, interactive Learning, Equity, and Power (LEaP) Lab for funders to join a conversation with experts to discuss power building and how foundations can better support building community power. This session, which is part of the larger LEaP initiative, highlights lessons and insights from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities. This LEaP Lab features:

• Gigi Barsoum, Founder and Principal, Barsoum Policy Consulting
• Julia Coffman, Founder and co-Executive Director, Center for Evaluation Innovation
• Sandra Witt, Managing Director; Program & Partnership, Power Infrastructure Statewide, The California Endowment