Sample Collection: Welcome Letters for New Grantee Partners
This collection of welcome letters from Thousand Currents and the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) demonstrate how funders can lead with trust and center relationships when embarking on new grantee partner relationships.
Sample Collection: Decision-Making Tools
Check out these trust-based decision-making tools designed to support the grantmaking decision process
6 Trust-Based Practices at-a-Glance
This guide provides a 2-page overview of the trust-based philanthropy approach, including the six practices of trust-based grantmaking.
Enabling Trust-Based Practices: 4 Tips for Grants Management Systems
This guide provides specific suggestions for a key element of trust-based structures: The grants management system. It is designed to provide a set of concrete features, integrations, and accessibility standards that you can use to advance your trust-based operations.
Sample Collection: Unrestricted Grant Agreements
These sample unrestricted grant agreements from the North Star Fund, the Dorot Foundation, and the General Services Foundation provide language that focus on reducing the burden on grantees through more streamlined processes.
An Era of Power Reckoning: Trust-Based Philanthropy and the Implications for Documentary Film Funding
How does trust-based philanthropy apply to film and arts funding? In this webinar, featuring the latest research on the state of film funding, three funders share how they are implementing trust-based practices and what they're learning along the way.
“Trust-Based Philanthropy” and the Foundation Board
This article from the March/April 2021 issue of Taxation of Exempts disentangles many of the long-held connections between restrictive funding practices and legal obligations, from due diligence to unrestricted funding and grant reporting.
Participatory Grantmaking and Trust-Based Philanthropy
This webinar explores what it takes to build trust within a participatory framework, and how to bolster the strengths of trust-based philanthropy and participatory grantmaking—while also mitigating their tensions and challenges.
Advancing Trust-Based Philanthropy through Emergent Learning
This report charts the Winston-Salem Foundation's journey with both emergent learning and trust-based, where developing trusting relationships with grantees through dialogue facilitated mutual learning.
Redistributing Power Through Trust-Based Philanthropy
In this breakout session of the 2021 Global Philanthropy Forum, two trust-based funders describe the organizational structures and mindsets, rooted in trust, required to alleviate the power dynamic between funders and nonprofits.
Making the Case for Trust-Based Philanthropy: Part 1 & 2
This series addresses common misperceptions of trust-based philanthropy and offers examples and concrete first steps from other grantmakers in the field who have brought these ideas and approaches into their organizations.
Series: Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D
This four-part series invites funders to consider a multi-dimensional approach to the trust-based journey, which trust-based values shape grantmaking practices, culture, Structure, and leadership.
Guidelines for Interactions with Community-Based Organization Grantees and Their Communities
The Firelight Foundation developed this tool for funders who may ask, “What does a justice and solidarity approach look like in interacting with and supporting people and communities to address the issue(s) at hand?”
IVAR Report: The Why and How of Unrestricted Funding
Research from IVAR demonstrates that no matter your organization’s perceived limitations or hesitations—whether about compliance, efficiency, impact or risk—we can all go further in offering the resource nonprofits need most: unrestricted funding.
Trust-Based Philanthropy + Corporate Social Responsibility
This candid conversation with John Brothers, President of the T. Rowe Price Foundation, illuminates the compatibility of trust-based philanthropy and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Headwaters Foundation’s Brenda Solorzano on Trust-Based Philanthropy
On this episode of A New Angle podcast, Brenda Solorzano explains how trust-based philanthropy is making space for communities in Western Montana to determine their own priorities and solutions.
Tackling Common Misconceptions about Trust-Based Philanthropy
On this episode of Submittable’s Impact Audio podcast, Shaady Salehi shares the inspiration and the need for trust-based philanthropy and unpacks some common myths about the work.
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens
The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity created this guide to help foundation leaders understand what it means to move from racial equity to racial justice funding strategies.
A Conversation with the Co-Founder of Trust-Based Philanthropy
On the Do Your Good podcast, John Esterle, Co-Executive Director of The Whitman Institute, discusses the evolution of trust-based philanthropy and offers advice on building ecosystems of trust across the sector.
Operationalizing Trust-Based Philanthropy
Ashley Clark, Director of Knowledge and Grants Management at the Libra Foundation, joins the More Good Podcast to share her experience centering trust in operational decisions, from who is funded to how grants are tracked and managed internally.