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FSC Partnerships

Just as there is strength in numbers in communities, FSC participates in several partnerships in order to strengthen our work. The most important of these associations include:

When Georgia Cares–Georgia Shares!
Nearly a decade ago FSC helped found a new workplace giving federation in Georgia: "Georgia Shares." That investment of time and energy is now paying dividends as Georgia Shares is becoming a significant source of funds for FSC, and more than 30 other members. If you work in Georgia and your employer has not expanded its giving program beyond United Way, urge them to "Open Up" the campaign, and allow employees to donate to FSC, or any of the other members, through Georgia Shares. www.georgiashares.org

Southern Rural Development Initiative 
Founded to increase the flow of capital into persistently poor counties in the rural South, SRDI's thirty some members offer a range of development strategies at work in rural areas of twelve Southern states. The joint efforts have helped raise the level of awareness of the continuing needs for community economic development in low income rural areas of the South. www.srdi.org

Funding Exchange 
This network of fifteen foundations throughout the country shares a joint endowment and sponsors training events for staff and Board members. Vital to FSC since our very founding, the Funding Exchange member funds support each other, and provide funding to some of the best organizing around the country. All supported by individuals with a commitment to funding "Change, Not Charity" ™ FSC is proud to be a part of this collection of "troublemakers", in the best sense of the word. www.fex.org

Funding Exchange Members:

• Appalachian Community Fund
  Knoxville, TN

• Bread and Roses Community Fund
  Philadelphia, PA

• Chinook Fund
  Denver, CO

• Crossroads Fund
  Chicago, IL

• Fund for Santa Barbara
  Santa Barbara, CA

• Fund for Southern Communities
  Atlanta, GA

• Haymarket People's Fund
  Boston, MA

• Headwaters Fund
  Minneapolis

• Liberty Hill Foundation
  Los Angeles

• McKenzie River Gathering Foundation
  Eugene and Portland, OR

• North Star Fund
  New York City

• The People's Fund
  Honolulu

• Three Rivers Community Fund
  Pittsburgh

• Vanguard Public Foundation
  San Francisco

• Wisconsin Community Fund
  Madison

Cooperating Foundations
While FSC receives most of its support from very generous individual contributors, some national and regional foundations work with us to sponsor specific initiatives or projects. We thank the following foundations for their recent support.

• Changemakers
  San Francisco, CA

• Fonda Foundation
  Atlanta, GA

• Funding Exchange
  New York, NY

• Gill Foundation
  Denver, CO

• Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
  New York, NY

• Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
  Winston-Salem, NC

• Southern Rural Development Imitative
  Raleigh, NC

• Turner Foundation
  Atlanta, GA