philanthropy's next ten years

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2010 Annual Meeting Keynote speaker, Katherine Fulton, President of the Monitor Institute, shared lessons emerging from Monitor's work with funders nationwide over the past decade, lessons that are shaping the work of leading philanthropic practitioners and thinkers.Her insights encouraged participants to dialogue on key questions: * What will it take to get the job done? * What new tools, new behaviors, new mindsets and new skill sets?

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Philanthropy’s Next Ten YearsMarch 2010

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Our Vantage Point

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The greatest danger in times of turbulence is

not the turbulence;

it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

Peter Drucker

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The World

The Field

Philanthropy’s Shifting Ecology

A Global Network Society Emerges

YouYou

New Challenges

New Possibilities

New Scale

New Tools

New Players

New Demands

New Competition

New Attention

Philanthropy and Non-Profits at a Crossroads

Mission

Strategy

Vision

Resources

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Industrial Age: Invention of Modern

U.S. Organized Philanthropy

Knowledge Age: Reorganization

of Philanthropy

Reinvention of U.S. Organized Philanthropy

The Next Chapter in Philanthropy’s Story

1950

a few hundred

2010

about60,000

1890

number of foundations

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Philanthropy today takes place in a context that is radically different from the environment in which many of its current practices and behaviors were developed—and indeed, which is quite different from 10 years ago

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What Time is It?

March 2010

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One Big Shift:A Sober Moment Full of Challenges

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Tomorrow’s Logic:The sectors’ shifting roles

Public Sector

Governmental organizations

providing public services

Private SectorCommercial

organizations providing goods and services for

profit

Nonprofit SectorOrganizations with the primary

goal of creating social benefit

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Tomorrow’s Logic: A Larger and More Diverse Social Change Landscape

Scientists

Politicians

CelebritiesSocial entrepreneurs

Movement leaders

Software engineers

Business-people

…and amateurs of all stripes…

Ministers

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Tomorrow’s Logic:The Evolution of Work and Decision Making

Independent,

Decentralized

Decision Makers

Centralized

Decision Makers

Connected,

Decentralized

Decision Makers

Source: Thomas W. Malone, MIT

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Ushahidi Would Have Been Unimaginable

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A Summary of Tomorrow’s Logic:The Emerging Context for Philanthropy

• Wicked problems and social complexity

• New pressures for transparency, responsiveness, and public participation

• Impact expected, not just innovation

• The HOW is shifting: New tools and opportunities for engagement , information sharing, and access to diverse perspectives and input

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Urgency AND

Stamina for the long term

Top Down ControlAND

Bottom Up Letting Go

Evidence MattersAND

Taking risks is essential

Autonomy/competition AND

Cooperation/Relationships

Analysis AND Creativity

Tomorrow’s Logic Requires…Leaders who Balance Creative Tensions

Best practice AND

Next practice

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What Time is It?

March 2010

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Tomorrow’s Logic:Next Practices for the Next Decade

ACTINGBIGGER

ADAPTINGBETTER

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Next Practices for the Next Decade

• Understanding the ecosystem

• Working with networks

• Aligning independent action

• Leveraging additional resources

• Knowing what works

• Opening up to new inputs

• Shifting and adapting

• Taking risks and learning from failure

• Sharing by default

ACTING BIGGER ADAPTING BETTER

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Acting BiggerUnderstanding Your Ecosystem

Inside one foundation, imagine being able to help others see inside the program officers’ heads, to give them access so they can see how each grant made by a funder fits into a program’s overall strategy.

And beyond any single institution, imagine knowing at a glance who else is working on the issues you care about, what strategies they are using, and how they are allocating their resources across those approaches.

Strategy Landscape

A map of the relative scale of investment in climate change work by participatingfunders.

A map showing the relative distribution of a single foundation’s grantmaking acrossthe key “change levers” within its climate change strategy.

A map showing the grants made as part of a single change lever by one of the participating funders.

Detail on a particular grant made by one of the participating funders.

A map showing the proportion of each strategic approach being supported by a selected foundation.

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Prototyping Innovations

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“The Smart Money Award”

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Four Kinds of Solutions

ACTING BIGGER ADAPTING BETTER

DATA TOOLS

BEHAVIOR CULTURE

Northern California Grantmakers

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Tomorrow’s Logic:The Enduring Lesson

“Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.”

Paul Saffo, futurist

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For the next 15 minutes:

At your tables, please discuss:

What are your reflections on how philanthropy will or should operate

in the future?

What questions did the presentation provoke for you?

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Philanthropy’s Next Ten YearsMarch 2010

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