The Power of Learning: How Learning Communities Amplify the Work of Nonprofits and Grantmakers

This case study of the Council of Michigan Foundations' Peer Action Learning Network (PALN) is one of six examined in a report from New York University's Wagner Research Center for Leadership in Action, commissioned by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.  The PALN case study, along with the other five, explores the power of learning communities to build connections and knowledge to increase organizations’ community impact.  It explains ways grantmakers can strategically support these efforts as well as key elements for designing learning communities, executing for success and extending the learning.