Operationalizing Trust-Based Philanthropy
Incorporating Trust-Based Values in Grantmaking Operations
RESOURCE: Grantmaking Operations with a Trust-Based Lens
In this guide by the Trust Based Philanthropy Project, you’ll learn how to move from values enabling a trust-based approach to implementation within your grantmaking operations.
Find additional guides by the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project.
WEBINAR: How Two Foundations Work to Implement a Trust-Based Approach
In this session with the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) and the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project, you’ll hear from the General Service Foundation and the Magic Cabinet Foundation as they share how they’ve operationalized a learning framework and streamlined both applications and reporting as they shift their organizations toward a trust-based approach.
4 Tips for Grants Management Systems
This guide by TAG provides specific suggestions for a key element of trust-based structures: The grants management system.
Whether you are a product designer or a foundation staff member evaluating platforms, “Enabling Trust-Based Practices: 4 Tips for Grants Management Systems” is designed to provide a set of concrete features, integrations, and accessibility standards that you can use to advance your trust-based operations. Keep in mind that implementing these features in technology platforms can take time, so if you are a foundation client, it is recommended that you negotiate and even consider funding the development of trust-based functionality.
This guide offers four key suggestions for grants management systems:
- Support Listening
- Create Accessibility
- Promote Collaboration
- Set Trust-Based Practices by Default
Download the guide for concrete functionality tips in each area as well as reflections from practitioners in philanthropy.
Trust-Based Philanthropy Resources
Learn more about trust-based philanthropy, including a wide array of webinars, publications, and more at the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project.
Additionally, below are resources shared in an open call in February 2023 for TAG members who are product providers, consultants, and advisors to philanthropy.
From Product Providers
Blackbaud
- How to Evaluate Your Organization Through a Transparency Lens
- Six Ways Grantmakers Can Embrace Transparency to Foster Stronger Relationships
- Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do With It?
- Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in. Now what?
- Overcoming the Four Common Challenges of Participatory Grantmaking
Fluxx
- Will Trust-Based Philanthropy Solve the Funder to Nonprofit Power Imbalance?
- How Can We Implement Trust-Based Philanthropy?
Foundant
GivingData
SmartSimple
Submittable
From Consultants, Advisors, and Support Organizations
- Leveraging System Features to Support Trust-Based Philanthropy by 1892 Consulting
- Form Design for Trust-Based Philanthropy by Grantbook
- Championing Trust-Based Philanthropy Through Our Impact-Driven Cohort Program by UpMetrics
- How to Turn Trust-Based Philanthropy from an Idea into a Viable Approach at PEAKgrantmaking.org
- Breaking the Binary: Your Grantmaking can be Trust-Based and Data-Drivenat PEAKgrantmaking.org
- Participatory Grantmaking: A Webinar by Hyphen8