Philanthropy & Funding
In Numbers We Trust
Because trust-based philanthropy shouldn’t mean blind faith.
Because trust-based philanthropy shouldn’t mean blind faith.
Funders are embracing a more equitable way of working with nonprofits by prioritizing collaboration and trust.
A commitment to racial justice means transforming conventional practices and embracing trust-based philanthropy.
Funders often mistake accountability for compliance. Instead, accountability must be rooted in mutuality, relationships, and power analysis.
Rest and joy are essential to not only leaders but their teams, their organizations, and the communities they serve.
Funders must commit to making our institutions sites of trust and relationship-building for our grantee partners to realize their mission.
The practices of trust-based philanthropy require grappling with deep-rooted inequities while living values in action.
The core practices that define a trust-based approach can, through multiple pathways, lead to both increased resource efficiency and outsized impact.
Knowledge of trauma and healing gives funders a way to expand their perspectives, do less harm, and be more effective at systems change.
How to disentangle the different scales through which organizations build their capacity