Transformation on the agenda
Transformation is more than change. Transformation requires a more thoroughgoing shake up of what we do and how we do it. That’s the central message of our latest special feature guest-edited by Michael Seberich of Wider Sense and Erin Ganju of Echidna Giving.
The feature includes a provocative peer dialogue with Romy Kramer and Kavita Ramdas who provide an insider’s view on the limited appetite for transformation within philanthropy.
In our spotlight on Asian philanthropy, Elika Roohi talks to Yohei Sasakawa, the legendary chairman of Japan’s Nippon Foundation, Fan Li reports from the first Asian Philanthropy Congress and Laurence Lien examines scenarios for philanthropy on the continent.
Special feature
Transformation: No digital silver bullet
The magic lies with your changemakers, not your technology Foundations around the world are abandoning stagnant legacy systems in favour of trust-based approaches. What’s more, many are foregrounding the experience of changemakers (the grantees actually executing the impact goals) when making concrete operational choices – going beyond lofty vision statements. Whether they are leading with trust or leaning into Changemaker Experience (CX), these are shifts to truly transformational philanthropy: an approach aimed at dismantling the …
Special feature
Transforming philanthropy from within
Remaking institutional philanthropy to serve the purpose it needs to serve requires an honest, ‘warts-and-all’ self-assessment by those involved The rallying cry for philanthropy to change has been resounding and gaining momentum over the past few years. It comes from non-profit leaders, academics, the general public and, what we find most heartening, from those engaged in the philanthropic sector itself – and it is a call heard around the world. The call for transforming philanthropy …
