It's a good question.
The experience we've had is that isolating particular elements and challenges in a community may mean we overlook the whole experience and the interconnections of community life. I think we're having a good discussion here around the table about this sort of decline in civic involvement, this decline in the civic sensibility, and some of the cultural components to this. What we see at Community Foundations is in fact that some of the activities that we go on, which may look like they don't have an impact on the food security of a particular family, in fact have a very important connection. It could be their involvement in a faith-based institution, it could be their involvement in a community recreation opportunity, or it could be their involvement in another part of the community that builds and bridges their connections at the community level.
In our perspective, a good public policy is one that looks at the whole community and would provide an opportunity that would allow that community to identify its priorities and benefit as a result.