The Communications Network connects, gathers, and informs leaders from the most influential foundations, nonprofits, and social sector consultancies across the globe.
The Network brings together social sector leaders to solve complex problems, while providing them with insights, ideas, innovations, and techniques to help them grow, thrive—and shape the future.
We believe in the power of communications for good.
Halting climate change. Eradicating disease. Lifting up the arts. Ending poverty. At their core, foundations and nonprofits are in the business of advancing big, bold ideas. But impact only happens when those ideas move out into the wider world to inspire change though smart communications.
The Network started with a call for help…
Over 40 years ago, Frank Karel became the new Communications lead at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The first ever.
Frank knew communications. But he was new to the social sector and didn’t know where to begin…
So he picked up the phone and called a colleague at the Rockefeller Foundation who had a similar sounding title, and asked for help. They met for lunch a short time later, and The Communications Network was born.
Fast forward to today, and The Network counts over 3,000 members from across the globe and across the social good spectrum, including leaders from the Ford Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and World Wildlife Fund, and hundreds more.
You don’t have to go it alone.