Regional Event, Webinar in Greater New York

Trust-Based Philanthropy: Tools to Engage Community & Transform Philanthropy

Authentic “trust-based philanthropy” requires alignment of values, skills, tools, resource mobilization strategies, and clarifying common definitions. It can address and challenge inherent power dynamics between grant-seekers, grant-users, and community, by helping grant-makers rethink their relationships and responsibilities. Are grant-makers “check-writers” focused on due diligence of their grants (usually only 5% of a foundation’s financial capital), or do they demonstrate that they are “grant-making partners” focused on servant leadership to those who they fund and to the community? Trust-based philanthropy can offer a spectrum of ways to rethink how funder organizations authentically partner with communities by leveraging their financial, social, moral, intellectual and relational capital in ways.

On December 12, 2023, 2-3 p.m. ET, please join the Greater New York Asset Funders Network for this Greater New York regional virtual convening, as we learn from grant-makers who are integrating “trust-based philanthropy” and inclusive strategies in their grantmaking. Whether you are in a corporate, private, or a community philanthropy setting, this session will equip you with frameworks, knowledge, lessons learned, and vocabulary to consider as you advance trust in the communities you serve and alongside the nonprofit partners you fund.

Goals of this session are to:

  • Explore various definitions, tools, and frameworks that inform trust-based philanthropy.
  • Deepen understanding of trust-based philanthropy as it connects to cross-cutting goals of racial equity, enterprise capital, and financial health.
  • Uplift models of trust-based philanthropy in corporate, private, and community foundations.
  • Share frameworks and tools for community engagement and accountability
  • Learn how community inclusion is influencing change in data, reporting, accountability and metrics in grantmaker strategies – without creating undue burdens for grantee partners who seek grants.
Speakers include:

Tene Traylor, Moderator, Vice President and Senior Fellow, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at Urban Institute
Kristen Scheyder, Senior Program Officer, Citi Foundation
John Brothers, President, T Rowe Price Foundation
Camille Emeagwali, Senior Vice President of Programs and Strategic Learning, New York Women’s Foundation