You can quickly shift from planning to doing by following these four easy steps. Philanthropy focuses a lot of time and brainpower on the how-to of strategic planning and very little on practical implementation. And yet, if not implemented effectively all your planning will waste time and resources. Change is hard work. So, while […]
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How are leading philanthropists becoming the changemakers we need? Back in April of 2019, a World Economic Forum article started with the sentence, “This is a difficult time for philanthropy.” It went on to detail all the many ways the world’s problems from climate change to shifting demographics required collective action and how philanthropy needed
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Answer these three questions to find out. I’ve spoken with thousands of philanthropists just like you, and one thing is for sure: You don’t want to dillydally. With your giving, you’d like clarity. You want to know what you want to accomplish, and the best way to do it. To do that, you need a
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Volatility is the new status quo. Eight philanthropy experts were invited by Submittable, a submission management platform, to share their insights on grantmaking trends to expect in 2021. I am honored to be one of them. Below I’ve re-posted the trends I foresee. Be sure to read the full blog post to learn what Edgar
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Many funders fail at this. Are you one of them? In my last newsletter of 2020, Don’t Let Your New Strategy Fail in 2021, I shared five reasons why strategic plans rarely get implemented. I also promised to share with you 10 steps to implement anything quickly– whether it’s creating a new funding initiative, implementing
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In philanthropy circles, people very rarely, if ever, call each other out for being delusional. And that’s exactly why I wrote my book Delusional Altruism: Why Philanthropists Fail To Achieve Change and What They Can Do To Transform Giving. Briefly, the book is about human behaviors we’re not even aware of that get in the way
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