The program goal is to strengthen community foundations globally. To this end, the Global Fund for Community Foundations will manage a small-grants and capacity-building program focusing on community foundations and their support organizations in developing and transitioning countries around the world. Through this program, the grantee has provided grants to ten community foundations, launched a new Web site, and developed a database and evaluation methodology. In 2011, the grantee will focus this program on youth civic engagement and constituency-building work in Asia. Program activities will include providing small grants to individual community foundations, organizing peer learning events, creating learning groups of grantees, and documenting grantees' activities and learning. Registered as an independent organization in late 2009, the Global Fund for Community Foundations is a global, grassroots grantmaker seeking to promote community foundations and other local philanthropic institutions in the Global South and in the emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe.