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.
Trust-Based Philanthropy Virtual Summer Learning Series
The Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, in partnership with Philanthropy Missouri, Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington, Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania, and New Mexico Association of Grantmakers, Philanthropy Colorado, and Connecticut Council on Philanthropy are pleased to announce a 3-part virtual series on the values and practices of what it means to be a trust-based grantmaker.
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.
There Is No Trust-Based Philanthropy Without Equity
We’re introducing our updated Trust-Based Philanthropy Overview! When it comes to the role of funders, we believe that trust-based philanthropy cannot be operationalized without addressing built-in biases, systemic racism, and other inequalities. This updated Overview reflects our approach, and underscores that we can’t achieve trust-based philanthropy without centering and working toward racial equity.
How bi3 is Building On, and Building In, Trust
When bi3 launched, the trust-based philanthropy movement had not come into being, but their practice was already aligning with the core principles that drive it. Over time, bi3 adopted a more trust-based approach that has made them more effective funders, and also fuels their ability to collectively achieve their mission of transforming health for all people in Greater Cincinnati, and beyond.
We Are Not OK, And You Don’t Have To Be Either
“To watch this deadly violence unfold, incited by our own political leaders, is fresh trauma on top of old. It. Is. Not. OK. We are not ok. We want our philanthropy and nonprofit colleagues—especially those who may feel alone in your institution or community—to know that we see you, and that we are holding you in our response to this collective trauma.”
Will Philanthropy Be Trust-Based By 2024?
"If before 2020, a dim light shined down on the rusty, outdated practices of our sector, flood lights now illuminate the need for change." On the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project's one-year mark, our director Shaady Salehi asks, Will Philanthropy Be Trust-Based by 2024?