A Trust-Based Framework for Learning & Evaluation in Philanthropy
This guide introduces a framework for evaluation and learning grounded in trust and mutual accountability. It offers funders three learning stances to adopt for a more nuanced, adaptive understanding of impact.
Committing to Trust-Based Philanthropy
Presented in partnership with Forefront Illinois, this webinar features a conversation with three foundation leaders on how trust-based philanthropy shapes extends beyond grantmaking practices into organizational values, culture, and leadership.
Series: Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D
This four-part series invites funders to consider a multi-dimensional approach to the trust-based journey, which trust-based values shape grantmaking practices, culture, Structure, and leadership.
Trust-Based Philanthropy + Corporate Social Responsibility
This candid conversation with John Brothers, President of the T. Rowe Price Foundation, illuminates the compatibility of trust-based philanthropy and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D
This guide is intended for grantmaking practitioners who are ready to live into their values to cultivate trust-based philanthropy holistically, across the four dimensions of this work: culture, structures, leadership, and grantmaking practices.
A Conversation with the Co-Founder of Trust-Based Philanthropy
On the Do Your Good podcast, John Esterle, Co-Executive Director of The Whitman Institute, discusses the evolution of trust-based philanthropy and offers advice on building ecosystems of trust across the sector.
Trust-Based Philanthropy Summer Learning Webinar Series
This three-part series examines the process of building trust and mutual accountability with grantee partners and invites funders to reflect on the internal work necessary to center equity and power-awareness.
Sharing Power to Advance Impact: The Promise of Trust-Based Philanthropy
Two foundation leaders who have embedded trust-based values and practices into their work share what they're doing, what they are learning, and what is possible when funders yield control in service of healthier nonprofits and communities.
Trust-Based Philanthropy Self-Reflection Tool
This self-reflection tool is designed to help funders at various stages of the trust-based journey examine how trust shows up across your organization, and identify areas that may need more inquiry, refinement, or deepening.
3-Part Series: Practice, Values, & Culture
This webinar series explores the practices, values, and culture of what it means to be a trust-based funder.
The 6 Grantmaking Practices of Trust-Based Philanthropy
This guide offers insights and practical recommendations on shifting from traditional to trust-based grantmaking.
Series: The Ethos of Being Trust-Based
This series is dedicated to exploring the fundamental values and dispositions central to a trust-based approach, spanning personal, interpersonal, organizational, and systemic levels of self-examination and skill-building.
Series: The Six Practices of Trust-Based Philanthropy
Over the course of seven sessions, this series unpacks the six practices of trust-based philanthropy, as well as how to make the case for the structural and cultural changes necessary to support them.
Trust-Based Philanthropy for Individual Donors
On this episode of the Grow Your Giving podcast, Gwen Wurst sits down with Shaady Salehi and Philip Li to discuss the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project and how individual donors can implement this practice in their charitable giving.
Webinar Collection: Trust-Based Philanthropy 101
TBP 101 sessions offer a primer on trust-based philanthropy and an overview of its six principles, through the lens of a particular trust-based foundation’s journey.
The Role of Trust in Philanthropy
This keynote by Carrie Avery, President of the Durfee Foundation, is immediately followed by a panel discussion featuring three Indiana-based funders as they share more about how they’re working on prioritizing trust and relationships in their work.
Leaving the Titanic: Redesigning a More Relevant, Effective Philanthropy
In this breakfast plenary from the 2020 Catalist Conference, nonprofit leader and writer Vu Le and Trust-Based Philanthropy Project steering committee member Pia Infante reimagine philanthropy’s role in this sociopolitical climate.