Place-Based Philanthropy: A Field Guide

The Place-Based Philanthropy Field Guide (The Strategy Group, 2025) is a comprehensive, practice-oriented manual for foundations seeking to align money, influence, and institutional behavior within a defined geography to drive long-term systems change. It distills two decades of field evidence into a roadmap for funders—covering models, governance reforms, resourcing, and implementation frameworks—that reposition philanthropy from funding programs to financing the conditions that enable communities themselves to lead and sustain transformation.