Trust-Based Philanthropy Project

🌍 New Documentary on Trust-Based Philanthropy! 🎬 Our friends at Trees, Water & People (TWP) recently created an amazing new short film: "In the Right Hands - Trusting Community to Guide Philanthropy". The powerful documentary demonstrates how trust-based relationships between funders and nonprofits can lead to sustainable, impactful, community-led change. 💻 Read the blog from TWP's Executive Director Sebastian Africano 📽️ Watch the 10-minute film 🙏🏾 Share the video with anyone curious about TBP 🤔 Consider how to bring more trust & community accountability to your work https://lnkd.in/gkk8Z8UE

🤝 We’re partnering with the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project to offer consulting services that advance trust-based philanthropy (TBP) across the sector. TGP senior advisors are ready to support your organization in building equitable, community-centered impact! Here's what Senior Advisor Rosalie Sheehy Cates shared about the process of TBP. Learn more and reach out to us: https://lnkd.in/gequgfTe #TrustBasedPhilanthropy #EquityInPhilanthropy #TBPwithTGP

#ICYMI: In July, we led The Giving Practice at Philanthropy Northwest senior advisors in a multi-day intensive to strengthen and coordinate our offerings on the “how” of guiding trust-based organizational change. For us, this is grounded in a trust-based presence and ethos, combined with lived experiences of leading systems change and a learning-centered approach to organizational development. To learn more about this exciting partnership read our fall announcement below!

👻 Just in time for spooky season! 🎃 A ghost story about the nonprofit boogeyman 👹 From our brilliant friends at Memphis Music Initiative, in honor of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project's 5-year anniversary! 😊 Watch here: 🎥 https://lnkd.in/gftmsJAg #TrustBasedPhilanthropy #SpookySeason #Nonprofits #Philanthropy

🎃 Just in time for spooky season... 👻 From the people who brought you "I Hope Like Hell We Get This Grant"... Comes a new video about the nonprofit boogeyman! Thanks to the brilliant team at Memphis Music Initiative for putting together this video in honor of our 5-year anniversary! And here's to all of you out there dispelling the myths of the nonprofit boogeyman. 🙌🏾

🌟 Exciting News from the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project! 🌟 We are thrilled to spotlight the latest article by Shaady Salehi and Pia Infante, featured in the newest issue of The Foundation Review. This insightful piece offers concrete examples of the transformative power of trust-based philanthropy in advancing systems change. 👉 Don’t miss out on this important conversation! Check out the article below and join us in reimagining philanthropy for a more just and inclusive future. https://lnkd.in/giK7QMqb #TrustBasedPhilanthropy #Philanthropy #Equity #CommunityImpact #TheFoundationReview

📽 Just released: A documentary short about the power and potential of #trustbasedphilanthropy, created by our lovely friends at Trees, Water & People. We may be a bit biased, but we think this film is SO GOOD. It is both beautiful and informative. And it's 100% fueled by love & trust. Check it out and spread the word! And drop us some comments in the chat! ⬇

"Our best grantmaking work has happened not because of a strategy developed independently by our staff and board, but because we operate as a site of shifted power to begin with" - Jennifer Ching | North Star Fund In this #TrustBasedStory, Jennifer Ching shares how North Star Fund lets people lead the land, for the work will get done. Read the full story below 👏

If, across philanthropy, we are working to build and deepen trust — between funders and grantee partners, board and staff members...how do you measure it? The Giving Practice at Philanthropy Northwest has a hot take worth exploring “There may be some things about human relationships that you just can’t measure. Like love and friendship, trust is something that you feel and experience. When you know, you know.” - Dawn Chirwa Do you agree? Continue reading "Ingredients and Indicators of Trust: Breaking down the big buzzword."

#TBT: While we've been hard at work dreaming up a NEW trust-based future, we have also made time for play, retreat, and restoration. Over the summer, the team gathered in Costa Rica for some much needed in-person community. 📷 : Shaady Salehi, Pia Infante Chantias Ford, Rashanda Freeman, Danielle LaJoie