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.
It happened in the winter of 1965. I was 34, living in Detroit, working for the diocese of Michigan as a chaplain at Ford Hospital, had four pre-school kids (each a year apart), and lived precariously from paycheck to paycheck in a rental property a block from the hospital.