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Phew! Thank your for this acknowledgment and grounding of how we got to this place of “needing” philanthropy. So important.

+++ @ Nathaniel

Greetings from NW Ohio. Excited to learn more about this topic especially in my role as a community foundation program officer.

Thank you Nathaniel!

Thank you Ray!

First Nations Development Institute is such a strong advocate and change agent for Native communities. Highly encourage all funders here to learn more about their work and support the important work they are doing. Thank you Ray for the work you are doing!

++++ @ Ray

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Thank you for sharing your story Sparks!

Thank you, Sparks, for sharing your family's story. Incredibly inspirational!!

++++ @ Sparks especially learning your family story

me too, Ashley! :)

<3 Grandpa’s name story… it meant a lot to hear it. Thanks.

Thank you Sparks

That totally resonates with me - “an internal team of skeptics” - yes!

Yes

@julia, I love that too!

Love celebrating and elevating skepticism, often it is punished in philanthropic spaces.

+1 @Maria

++++ @ Ashley with actively decolonizing

Writing exercise; how are you seeing a culture of extraction showing up in philanthropy?

Ppwer over instead of power with

processes/structures where nonprofits have to prove their worth

A "service" orientation towards donors that is not extended to community members

Lack of proximity to communities supported, i.e. grantees

Not being thoughtful about grantees’ time and energy

Philanthropy knows what is best

Extraction occurs when philanthropy hoards power, privileges, and resources rather than give them away.

concept of Return on Investment

Continuing to lean into the "business as usual" approach and less into catalytic grantmaking.

I've seen a culture of extraction when funders ask community partners to share about their orgs (extracting knowledge) without paying them or building the relationship into a funding partnership. It's usually framed as, "sharing with us is in your best interest."

making grantees’ work fit into a funders’ theory of change

++++1 Jeanne: power over vs power with

lack of power sharing with the communities impacted by investments (i.e., "we" decide what's best)

Obsession with efficiency

I’m having a though that the history of the money walks into the “room” with every grant……. Just like our ancestors come with us, the money has ancestors, too.

@carlos YES

Reporting requirements and arduous application processess

Asking for reports where grantees have to show what they've accomplished, at a time when their renewals are being consisdered

feeling proud when we do “risky” grants, as though there’s any risk to us

amount of documentation and information grant makers request of applicants

evaluation accountability to foundation vs. to community served

Not valuing input from staff with lived experience.

consuming applicant/grantees time

Philanthropy has extracted and coopted ideas and movements, particularly those led by BIPOC communities. We extract time through unnecessary processes and requirements. Philanthropy extracts power and talent; takes words that have grassroots power and dilutes them. We extract trust by treating communities as if they don't know or cant be trusted with resources.

taking knowledge/ feedback and not doing anything with it or taking credit for it

Philanthropy as charity rather than responsibility

Being very rigid and narrow-minded in approaches and what success looks like

lack of affirmations on reports

change strategies every three to five years

TBP advocates for principles designed to chip away at this culture of extraction: You can see the 6 trust-based principles of grant making here: https://trustbasedphilanthropy.org/principles-1

hiding behind bias data to decline applicants, also not considering potential applicants who can't use "industry" phrases.

yes metrics must be aligned with the need

YES @Nathaniel. Top-down impact measures are so extractive

be vocal and courageous and speak out - yes @ Nathaniel; there is a lot of politeness and avoidance to overcome

I so appreciate the idea of turning *toward* the history & reality, instead of turning away- thank you

@Ashley YES! that is why streamlining paperwork is a key principle of trust-based philanthropy

https://trustbasedphilanthropy.org/simplify-and-streamline-paperwork

soliciting (and acting on) feedback is another great practice: https://trustbasedphilanthropy.org/solicit-act-on-feedback

Yes! Funders should do the homework and ask those closest to the issues what work needs to be resourced!

https://www.democracyfrontlinesfund.org/

love a question remix! :)

I am hearing all these percentages… less than 1% of philanthropic dollars are going to LGBTQ issues, native communities, Asian & Pacific Islander communities…. where is all the money going!?!?!?

@Claudia, the data is about Native-led, LGBTQ-led, BIPOC-led efforts

the sector needs to nurture and support more efforts led by those who are closest to the issues

Speak it!

Totally @Ray!

Fantastic session - thank you all so much for sharing! Can’t wait for the recording to share with our team.

good reminder @ Ray about how to expand the way to think/use the term power

Thank you, Ray

Change needs to happen at human speed and supporting that pace.

Reports on foundation giving to Native communities include the following: https://nativephilanthropy.candid.org/

https://www.firstnations.org/publications/growing-inequity-large-foundation-giving-to-native-american-organizations-and-causes-2006-2014/

https://www.firstnations.org/publications/community-foundation-giving-to-native-american-causes/

Thanks for such a wonderful, thoughtful session!

Wow do you have a resource on how to look at/quantify the tax stealing?

same question RE tax stealing.

I second JM’s question—would love further info on what that looks like!

LOVE the relational approach to giving!

Does anyone on the panel include community (not staff) members as decisionmakers on funding?

flexible grant periods! so helpful in so many ways

@Maria, our Community Foundation has community members on committees that review and provide approval/decline recommendations for scholarships and grants.

That's great to hear @Artisha

That was amazing. THANK YOU so much Sparks.

Feel free to chat any questions here if you have them!

Amazing. Thank you

Appreciate concept of taxes as taking from community, but in fact, the way taxes are used, especially federal, isn’t all good - over half to military expenses, eg. So - it’s our duty to quantify, but then do better, much better, than our current tax system would do in spending

Please take 5 minutes to let us know what you thought about this session and what more you would like to hear about next time: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TXCP9HW

Thank you Nathaniel

+1 2020 was a record year, and it shouldn’t take crisis and mass death to spur funding that our communities really need.

Thank you, panelists. Huge a-ha's here! Excited to move forward.

If you want more, please sign up for the final session on the Ethos of Being Trust-Based: https://trustbasedphilanthropy.org/events/2020/04/27/ethos-series-reimagining-funder-roles

+1 sparks

This was an amazing session - thank you to all panelists!

Great discussion!

Thank you so much for a great discussion!

Any advice on how to impact this work in our Foundations for those of us who are not in positions of power?

Fast and exciting moving session….so many great nuggets. Thank you

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TXCP9HW

Thank you all! So much great information — wonderful panel!

thank you. so helpful. loved all the real-life examples!

Really enjoyed being with you all! Have a good day all!

Great discussion, thank you all!

Wonderful! THanks!

Thank you so much to all of you for your amazing work!

thank you all

Thank you!!!!!!!

Lots of excellent perspectives here. Thanks so much to all of you for putting it together and sharing!

Thanks!