2010 Annual Meeting Keynote speaker, Katherine Fulton, President of the Monitor Institute, shared lessons emerging from Monitor's work with funders nationwide over the past decade, lessons that are shaping the work of leading philanthropic practitioners and thinkers. Her insights encouraged participants to dialogue on key questions: * What will it take to get the job done? * What new tools, new behaviors, new mindsets and new skill sets?

1. Philanthropy’s Next Ten Years March 2010

2. Our Vantage Point

3. The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic. Peter Drucker

4. New Scale New Tools New Players New Demands New Competition New Attention The World The Field Philanthropy’s Shifting Ecology Mission Strategy Vision Resources You New Challenges New Possibilities Philanthropy and Non-Profits at a Crossroads A Global Network Society Emerges

5. The Next Chapter in Philanthropy’s Story Knowledge Age: Reorganization of Philanthropy Reinvention of U.S. Organized Philanthropy Industrial Age: Invention of Modern U.S. Organized Philanthropy 1950 2010 1890 number of foundations about60,000 a few hundred

6. Philanthropy today takes place in a context that is radically different from the environment in which many of its current practices and behaviors were developed—and indeed, which is quite different from 10 years ago

7. What Time is It? March 2010

8. One Big Shift:A Sober Moment Full of Challenges

9. Tomorrow’s Logic:The sectors’ shifting roles

10. Tomorrow’s Logic: A Larger and More Diverse Social Change Landscape Scientists Celebrities Social entrepreneurs Business-people Politicians Movement leaders Software engineers Ministers …and amateurs of all stripes…

11. Tomorrow’s Logic:The Evolution of Work and Decision Making Independent, Decentralized Decision Makers Centralized Decision Makers Connected, Decentralized Decision Makers Source: Thomas W. Malone, MIT

12. Ushahidi Would Have Been Unimaginable

14. New pressures for transparency, responsiveness, and public participation

15. Impact expected, not just innovation

17. What Time is It? March 2010

18. Tomorrow’s Logic:Next Practices for the Next Decade ACTINGBIGGER ADAPTINGBETTER

20. Working with networks

21. Aligning independent action

22. Leveraging additional resources

23. Knowing what works

24. Opening up to new inputs

25. Shifting and adapting

26. Taking risks and learning from failure

28. Strategy Landscape Inside one foundation, imagine being able to help others see inside the program officers’ heads, to give them access so they can see how each grant made by a funder fits into a program’s overall strategy. And beyond any single institution, imagine knowing at a glance who else is working on the issues you care about, what strategies they are using, and how they are allocating their resources across those approaches.

29. A map of the relative scale of investment in climate change work by participatingfunders.

30. A map showing the relative distribution of a single foundation’s grantmaking acrossthe key “change levers” within its climate change strategy.

31. A map showing the grants made as part of a single change lever by one of the participating funders.

32. Detail on a particular grant made by one of the participating funders.

33. A map showing the proportion of each strategic approach being supported by a selected foundation.

34. Prototyping Innovations

35. “The Smart Money Award”

36. Four Kinds of Solutions ACTING BIGGER ADAPTING BETTER DATA TOOLS BEHAVIOR CULTURE

37. Northern California Grantmakers

38. Tomorrow’s Logic:The Enduring Lesson “Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.” Paul Saffo, futurist

39. For the next 15 minutes: At your tables, please discuss: What are your reflections on how philanthropy will or should operate in the future? What questions did the presentation provoke for you?

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