Grantmaking Trends for 2021
Eight philanthropy experts were invited by grants management software company Submittable to share their insights on grantmaking trends to expect in 2021. I am honored to be one of them! Below Iâve re-posted the trends I foresee. Be sure to read the full blog post to learn what Edgar Villanueva, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, Aaron Dorfman, Yolanda Coentro, Sam Caplan, Jen Bokoff and Adam Liebling] suggest you do (or avoid) this year.
This whole notion of getting back to where we were doesnât exist. Disruption and volatility are the status quo.
According to Putnam-Walkerly, the events of 2020 increased the speed of giving, while improving the ease of giving (and applying for) grants.
Prominent Indian community member Rohit Patel passes away in Dubai
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76-year-old businessman was one of the guiding forces behind the BAPS Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi
Rohit Purshottam Patel, 76, a prominent Indian community member and businessman, passed away in Dubai on Thursday morning.
Patel was the chairman of Emirates Transformer and Switchgear, a Jebel Ali-based company.
Patel, a philanthropist, was closely associated with the development of the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi.
He was among the select four-member delegation, including Brahmavihari Swami, to have briefed visiting Indian Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankarabout the upcoming BAPS Hindu Mandir in November, 2020.
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If you want your philanthropy to help change the world, you might need to change how your funding is structured. In addition to disrupting longstanding power dynamics between grantor and grantee, the way you structure your funding should align with the type of impact you wish to see.
For example, if you want to achieve long-term results, provide long-term support. If you seek to strengthen the organizations that are solving problems, provide funding that builds their infrastructure, capacity, and talent. If you expect the organizations you fund to achieve specific outcomes, ensure that they have adequate resources. If you recognize your grantees must be nimble and adapt to rapidly changing conditions, off
On Monday, the Conservative movement lost a great friend.
Billionaire, philanthopist, and Conservative Sheldon Adelson has passed away at age 87, in his Malibu, California, home. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal,
Adelson founded and served as chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., the world’s largest gaming corporation, from its inception in 1988. He had been on medical leave from the company since Thursday to resume his fight against non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which he had battled since 2019.
In a statement, the company said Adelson died from complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
As I mentioned, that he was a major player in Republican political circles is indisputable. By the numbers, Adelson was a hefty piece of the donor puzzle for the Grand Old Party’s nominee in at least the past two presidential cycles including for President Donald Trump. Israeli newpaper The JTA reports that “[h]e was the largest donor to Donald Trump’s 2016 presi