This is part three of our multi-part webinar series for funders, hosted in collaboration with JustFund.

Explore how trust-based philanthropy reframes learning and evaluation as collaborative, reflective, and in service of equity rather than compliance. Hear from practitioners who have created helpful processes to capture learnings at three levels: learning for accountability, learning for decision-making, and learning for long-term impact. Together, we’ll examine how to define impact in a trust-based context, gather meaningful information without being extractive, and approach rigor in ways that align with power-sharing, transparency, and mutual accountability — so that trust becomes a gateway to deeper learning and more equitable impact.

Speakers:

• Shaady Salehi, Co-Executive Director, Trust-Based Philanthropy Project (moderator)

• Renata Peralta, Deputy Director, Amplify Fund

• Jennifer Zimmerman, SVP of Strategy and Chief Impact Officer, bi3 Fund

• Nathaniel Chioke Williams, Executive Director, Hill-Snowdon Foundation 

Attendees will get:

• A primer on the three-pronged framework on trust-based learning and evaluation

• Opportunities to reflect on your grantmaking “theory of change” and how your organization sees its role vis a vis the change you seek to support

• A bigger-picture understanding of the types of outcomes trust-based philanthropy can support — for nonprofits, for funders, and for communities

• Concrete examples from practitioners who have applied trust-based approaches to their reporting, learning, and evaluation

• Clarity on the type of data that can help inform learning for accountability, learning for decision-making, and learning for long-term impact