2022 Family Philanthropy Conference: Navigating Transitions, Redefining Traditions
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About the Conference
Many Family Foundations are at a crossroads today — torn between their legacies and values and who they are being called to be in a rapidly changing world.
Over the past two years, we’ve seen a multitude of transitions occur in family philanthropy: assets are increasing significantly upon the death of a founder, leadership is experiencing burnout, and younger generations feel excluded from decision-making power. And, more than ever, philanthropy is urged to think differently about its practices in favor of grantmaking that helps advance racial equity and shared leadership.
Simultaneously, family foundations are grappling with the long-standing traditions that have guided their observable donations and formed the culture and identity of the foundation itself. What does it mean to challenge the traditions — and family members — that created the foundation’s wealth? What does it mean to preserve a foundation’s spirit while shedding the values and practices no longer serving our communities?
SCG’s 2022 Family Philanthropy Annual Conference, Navigating Transitions: Redefining Traditions seeks to help our family philanthropy community address the challenges emerging from the tension between stifling traditions and emergent transitions. Our luminary speakers and community leaders will help family funders reassess their legacies and leverage change to realize their visions for equity.
Opening Plenary: Aligning your Foundations Values when facing Transitions and Traditions
Closing Plenary: Evaluating Traditions & Leveraging Transitions to Reimagine your Foundation's Culture and Grantmaking
Resources
Opening Plenary: Aligning your Foundation's Values when Facing Transitions and Traditions
Shifts and Conversations to Accelerate Impact Investing
Article - Commentary: Fiduciary judgment, race and returns
Illumen's Research Paper, Race Influences Professional Investors’ Financial Judgments
Report - Racial Disparities in Investing Are More Than a Pipeline Problem
Evaluating Traditions & Leveraging Transitions to Reimagine Your Foundation's Culture & Grantmaking
Why Should It Take a Pandemic to Bring out the Best in Philanthropy?
Beyond Low-Hanging Fruit: Shifting Power, Changing Systems, and Organizing in Our Own Sector
Another World is Possible: A Vision of Putting Philanthropy Out of Business
How to Think About Power (Especially if You Have Some)
What We’ve Learned After a Decade of Climate Funding, and What We’re Doing Instead
Justice Funders' Resonance Framework for philanthropic transformation
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's Power Moves framework for building, sharing, and wielding power for maximum impact on issues and communities you care about.
Resource Generation, a multiracial membership community of young people (18-35) with wealth and/or class privilege committed to the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power.
Solidaire Network, a community of donor organizers mobilizing critical resources to the frontlines of intersectional movements for racial, gender, and climate justice.