In his latest Giving Compass blog post, our chief executive David Bonbright poses two questions philanthropy must ask that focus on the root causes of the issues we are facing. The times are calling us to find and address root causes: A global pandemic, deepening inequities, worsening natural disasters, a tsunami of species extinctions, rising[…]
In his latest Giving Compass blog post, our chief executive David Bonbright suggests ways to explore issues that funders seek to address through using various data points. If You Don’t Live There, How Do You Know? After four years of being the Ford Foundation’s person “on the ground” in South Africa in the 1980s, I[…]
In his latest Giving Compass blog post, our chief executive David Bonbright suggests what characteristics to look for in an organization when preparing to give. Where To Give? Three Things To Look For In An Organization I have noticed three things showing up consistently in the very best organizations. Like any single characteristic, they are[…]
In his latest Giving Compass blog post, our chief executive David Bonbright explores how the work of LIFT ties into the Giving Compass philanthropy tenets and how the core four principles of impact philanthropy are useful towards meaningful change. Road-Testing The Impact-Driven Philanthropy Principles In May, Giving Compass shared how its impact philanthropy tenets can help[…]
In his May Giving Compass blog post, our chief executive David Bonbright discusses the leaning into relationships and learning from them. Philanthropy Means Traversing Our Moral Imaginations In this series, I have made a case for a seismic shift in philanthropy away from attempting to fund pre-defined “outcomes” by controlling grantees. Rather, we want to[…]
In his April Giving Compass blog post, our chief executive David Bonbright discusses the importance of deepening relationships in times like these. Lessons from a Pandemic: Only Trust and Deep Ties Will Sustain Change If I had a $1,000 for every time I have heard a philanthropist say that philanthropy was harder to get right[…]
In his October Giving Compass blog post, our chief executive David Bonbright discusses the importance of questioning assumptions. Questioning Our Assumptions In Philanthropy One of the most memorable classes I ever attended was a graduate school seminar at which one of my professors was presenting the thesis of his current work to two of the[…]
In his September Giving Compass blog post, our chief executive David Bonbright shares his inspiration from this historic moment of youth-lead global feedback. The Climate Strike: Learning From Youth-Led Global Feedback Prompted by my children and younger colleagues, I joined the hundreds of thousands massed along the Thames River on Friday, Sept. 20 to demonstrate[…]
In his July Giving Compass blog post, our chief executive David Bonbright shares our secret sauce for crafting artful questions. Every Question Has Three Faces You’ve probably heard some version of the quote attributed to Albert Einstein in which he said if he had an hour to solve a problem, he would spend the first[…]
Keystone Chief Executive David Bonbright’s monthly blog with advice for philanthropists, Mutual Accountability, is published by Giving Compass, a leading US philanthropy support platform. Here’s a re-post of his June 2019 contribution. Philanthropy Can’t Move Faster Than the Speed of Trust In 2009, my organisation, Keystone Accountability, had been invited, alongside commercial marketing experts, to[…]