Trust-Based Blog
Reimagining philanthropy begins with learning out loud.
By sharing ideas, with curiosity and humility, the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project blog features trust-based grantmakers who talk about their own lessons, questions, and aha-moments along their power-sharing journeys.
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
What happens when a foundation’s work strives to be trust-based, but its internal culture is anything but? We get this question a lot from foundation staff whose workplaces have embedded legacies and structures that seem counter to the core values of a trust-based approach. Here are a few clarifying questions to consider about your role in supporting this work.
How Philanthropy Can Move from Crisis to Transformation
We are in a once-in-a-lifetime opening to transform philanthropy: let's use it, writes Dimple Abichandani, Executive Director of the General Service Foundation. In this moving reflection on the year of COVID, racial justice uprisings, elections, and more, Abichandani writes about the new philanthropy that is ours to create.
How Claneil Foundation Puts Relationships into Practice
Claneil Foundation has valued the importance of relationship since its inception. Over the last four years the foundation has deliberately reexamined its practices with this lens – and it’s been transformational. We sat down with Executive Director Mailee Walker to shed more light on the foundation’s approach, and where they’re headed next.