This issue is the culmination of work of a national group of nonprofit infrastructure organizations and funders. The articles in this issue illustrate the crucial and varied roles national infrastructure groups play in strengthening the work of nonprofit organizations.

This special issue is endorsed by:

• Susan V. Beresford, President, Ford Foundation;
• Paul Brest, President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Stephen B. Heintz, President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• Sally Osberg, President & CEO, Skoll Foundation
• Gara LaMarche, Vice President, Open Society Institute & Director of US Programs
• Julie L. Rogers, President, The Meyer Foundation
• Edward Skloot, Executive Director, Surdna Foundation
• William S. White, President & CEO, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Gayle Williams, Executive Director, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation

The success story of a struggling AIDS organization, its executive director, and the intermediary that helped turn things around.

What exactly is the nonprofit infrastructure and why is it important to the overall health of the nonprofit sector? This is a call to action for all the nation’s funders for a widespread investment in the sector’s backbone.

A provocative look at how the nonprofit infrastructure must change to help the sector reach its full potential.

Foundations Stories: Why We Fund Infrastructure
by the editors

Five innovative funders, why they invest in infrastructure, and how they utilize infrastructure organizations in their own work.

Why invest in nonprofit capacity at this particular time? And how can a strong national infrastructure contribute to the overall effectiveness of nonprofits?

A creative funder, an inventive intermediary, and a dedicated nonprofit executive director work together to improve the lives of real people working on the ground in the Southeast and in South Carolina, in particular.

How a highly effective state association, the national infrastructure that supports it, and an organization that benefits from this support manage to better serve the community.

This article includes examples of coordinated local infrastructure.

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