8 Questions to Maintain Your New âBest Practicesâ From:
Donât slide back to your old ways.
If youâre like many funders, the changes you made in 2020 were swift and dramatic. You dropped tightly held practices like hot potatoes: loosening funding restrictions, eliminating burdensome policies, offering general operating support, collaborating with new partners, increasing grant payout, and dramatically expanding support for racial justice.
As I wrote in my op-ed in the Chronicle of Philanthropy last week, now is the time for philanthropists to lean into this progress and permanently embrace the important changes we made during a year of upheaval and crisis.
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Take this short quiz to find out. Â Itâs philanthropyâs Achilles heel. Foundation leaders, donors, professional athletes, corporate executivesâ-all philanthropistsâ-want to be good caretakers of their charitable wealth. They want their assets and profits to grow, so thereâs more wealth to give. They also want to reduce their philanthropic costs and save money, so thereâs …
About Kris Putnam-Walkerly
Kris Putnam-Walkerly, MSW is a global philanthropy advisor and president of Putnam Consulting Group, Inc. For more than 20 years, top global philanthropies have requested Kris Putnam-Walkerly s help to transform their giving and catapult their impact. Widely considered to be one of the most sought-after philanthropic advisors, Kris has helped over 80 foundations and philanthropists strategically allocate and assess over half a billion dollars in grants and gifts.
Trusting Relationships Advance Philanthropy During Times Of Crisis From:
before times get tough.
Regardless of who youâre trying to help or who your potential collaborators are, weâre all human and we need to know that we can count on people to show up and do what they say theyâre going to do. In times of difficulty, relationships get tested, stress levels rise, and resources become taxed. But if youâve spent the days, months and years leading up to this moment being a solid and reliable presence and good philanthropic partner, then youâll be a leader people trust. And youâll also have no shortage of allies at the ready to support you in return, making the act its own reward.
6 Ways Leading Philanthropists Proactively Change From:
How are leading philanthropists becoming the changemakers we need?
Back in April of 2019, a World Economic Forum article started with the sentence, âThis is a difficult time for philanthropy.â It went on to detail all the many ways the worldâs problems from climate change to shifting demographics required collective action and how philanthropy needed to change to keep up and stay relevant.
Now weâre in a different world. As our civil society safety nets strain under the weight of a struggling economy and the needs of so many; as the pandemic magnifies inequities in health care, education, access to green space, technology, safe work environments, and more; as the cry for equality and justice rings in the street, this call to change has only gotte
Answer these three questions to find out.I’ve spoken with thousands of philanthropists just like you, and one thing is for sure: You don’t want to dillydally. With your giving, you’d like clarity. You want to know what you want to accomplish, and the best way to do it. To do