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Lucia Dellagnelo

Conference reports 1 Lucia Dellagnelo 21 October 2014

2014 Fall Conference for Community Foundations: double cause for celebration

The first day of the Council on Foundations’ Fall Conference for Community Foundations started as many other conferences I have attended. Polite greetings to familiar faces and the true joy of meeting friends from other …

Blog 1 Lucia Dellagnelo 24 January 2014

Meet Lucia Dellagnelo, of ICOM Brazil, another of this year’s Olga Prize finalists

Lucia Dellagnelo is co-founder and chair of Instituto Comunitario Grande Florianopolis (ICOM), the first community foundation in south Brazil and only the second in Brazil (Instituto Rio being the first). ICOM is a pivotal organization …

Book review Lucia Dellagnelo 1 March 2009

Local Mission – Global Vision: Community foundations in the 21st century – Peter deCourcy Hero and Peter Walkenhorst

For those of us who work with community foundations, particularly in emerging countries, moments of reflection are rare. We are so busy performing the ‘balancing act’, as Dorothy Reynolds puts it, that we rarely have …