“Foundation Communications Today” updates our 2008 “State of the Practice Survey.” Once again, we asked professionals who hold communications jobs in foundations to tell us how and what are you doing?

Through our online questionnaire, we probed to learn how foundation communicators perceive their roles and whether they feel they are central to the work of their organizations. We asked questions about how they spend their time, size of budgets, what is working and the challenges they face. We also wanted to know how quickly they are adopting social media and other forms of digital communications, how transparent they considered their organizations, what are their attitudes toward communicating about failure and more.