Collaborative Philanthropy - thoughts and musings

I attended Rotary Charities event with Paul Born. The video recording from Paul Born's presentation on April 9, 2014 about building community and Collective Impact is now up! View the video below or click here to see it on YouTube.

Based on that, I had some thoughts on the possibility of a regional collaborative philanthropy. Some people have gathered to have some preliminary discussions about this possibility.  Here are some thoughts about it.

Regional Collaborative Philanthropy:

Everyone is able to give their time, talent, and financial resources if properly motivated and informed based on an individual’s value system. People give to more than one giving enterprise if they give at all.

Giving is a learned behavior that needs to be nurtured, encouraged, and expanded for the sake of all philanthropy.

We need to break down the illusion that there is only so much money people are willing to give.

There needs to be more donors giving to charity.

In the USA, two - four percent (2 - 4%) of income is now average philanthropic giving.

There needs to be more and consistent information coming from charity encouraging giving and philanthropy for the benefit of the culture.

We need to expand giving which will help all charities because people do not give to single causes.

Create an effort that encourages more giving to charity. Increase giving in the area by 2% of income annually.

People are unaware how giving can impact the every expanding need of charity for helping humanity.

People are unaware of the lack of recovery of giving since the 2008 Great Recession. It was a Great Depression for charity.

Philanthropic professionals need to share expertise to other charities in order to expand giving in general to all in the culture.

Charity boards need to be educated on the need for they as volunteers to be helping to implement giving to charities. They need to share their giving stories to inspire others to give.

Charities need to educate their constituencies on the need to increase giving by all for all charities.

Philanthropic professionals need to be in a common voice of the need to expand giving to the region because of the gap of need vs current giving.

Outlandish giving needs to be nurtured, encourage, and high recognized to all causes for the sake of the giving enterprise.