Delusional Altruism

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Kris Putnam-Walkerly. Delusional Altruism

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Delusional Altruism. WHY PHILANTHROPISTS FAIL TO ACHIEVE CHANGE. AND WHAT THEY CAN DO TO TRANSFORM GIVING

Foreword

Introduction

The Kenya Community Development Foundation Wants to Change the World

Social Venture Partners India Wants to Change the World

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Wants to Change the World

We Are All Philanthropists

Notes

1 You Save Money on All the Wrong Things

It Starts in Your Mind

Not Trusting Yourself to Make a Decision

Limiting Yourself Based on Your Current Capacity

Believing You Don't Deserve Something

Believing You Are Too Small to Make a Difference

Lack of Investment

Lack of Investment in Your Own Talent

Lack of Investment in Your Own Capacity

Lack of Investment in Nonprofit Talent and Capacity

How Do You Know If You Have a Scarcity Mind-Set?

Why Does This Happen?

Notes

2 You Are Fearful

Fear of “Coming Out” in Support of a Cause

Fear of Being Out and About

Fear of Failure

Fear of Not Being a Good Steward

Fear of Disappointing Others

Fear of Learning You Aren't Right

Fear of Loss

Fear Masked as Guilt

Sometimes the Fear Is Justified

Don't Hold Yourself Hostage to Your Fears

Notes

3 You Respond Too Slowly

Clogging the System with Unnecessary Junk

Complexifying the Simple Instead of Simplifying the Complex

Developing Bureaucratic Bloat

Committing to Speeding Things Up

Notes

4 You Have Too Many Steps

What “Too Many Steps” Means

Too Many Steps Cause Too Many Problems

Too Many Steps Slow Things Down

Too Many Steps Reduce Quality

Too Many Steps Cost You Money

Too Many Steps Make You Miserable

Why Do We Have Too Many Steps?

Notes

5 You Are Too Overwhelmed to Take Your Next Step

Six Ways Philanthropists Are Overwhelmed

Eight Ways You Contribute to Feeling Overwhelmed

Notes

6 You Are Fooled by Your Own Efforts

You Don't Know Where You Want to Go

You Don't Know How to Get There

You Suffer from Donor Distraction Disorder

Fooled or Fools?

Notes

7 You Ask the Wrong Questions

Wrong Question #1: “How Do We Do It?”

Wrong Question #2: What's the Best Way to Do This?

Wrong Question #3: “Can We Start Right Away?”

Why Does Asking the Wrong Questions Cause Problems?

Note

8 You Start with the Right Questions

Question 1: Why?

Question 2: What?

Question 3: What Do I Know Already?

Question 4: What Don't I Know?

Question 5: Who Else Needs to Be Involved?

Question 6: What Are Our Best Practices Internally?

Question 7: What Are All the Ways We Can Do This?

Question 8: If You Could Do It All Over Again, What Would You Do Differently?

Question 9: How Can We Speed This Up?

Question 10: If This Was to Become Best-in-Class, What Would It Look Like?

Question 11: What's the Risk?

Question 12: Does This Bring Me Joy?

Notes

9 You See and Act Abundantly

The Abundance Mind-Set

Investing in Yourself

Investing in Your Partners

Investing in Philanthropy's Infrastructure

How Will You Know If You Are Embracing an Abundance Mind-Set?

Notes

10 You Are Fast

9 Ways to Get Time Back in Your Day

1. Start Your Day Attending to Your Priorities, Not Someone Else's

2. Spend the First Hour of Your Workday Doing Something Creative

3. Allocate Your Time According to Your Priorities

4. Ask Yourself, “How Can I Do This in Half the Time?”

5. Say No

6. If You Are 80% There, Move

7. Prevent Interruptions

8. Identify Your “Productivity Propensity”

9. Assign It to Someone Else

Three Ways to Speed Up Your Teams and Organizations

1. Think Like a Mechanic

2. Assess the Cost of Your Time

3. Build for Speed

Create Aerodynamic Funding

How the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Did It

When to Go Slow to Go Fast

Notes

11 You Transform Lives

Change Systems

Strap on Your Systems Change Goggles

Use a Framework to Guide Philanthropic Investment

Support Systems Change Movements

Change Yourself to Change Systems

Advocate for Policy Change

Address the Root Cause

Transformative Collaboration

Seek Equitable Solutions

The Structure of Your Grants

Offer Multiple Years of Support

Provide General Operating Support

Sustaining Nonprofits with Operating Support and Ongoing Support

Strengthen Organizational Capacity and Talent

Building Trusting Relationships

Engage Diverse Perspectives and Let Go

Leverage All of Your Assets

Notes

12 You Are Unstoppable

Eliminate Steps

Increase Agility

Be Adaptive

Increase Innovation

Intentionally Learn and Improve

Notes

13 You Found Your North Star

What Is Strategy and Why Is It So Important?

Strategy Formulation

The Need for Shared Values in Family Foundations

Strategic Sprint

Seven-Week Strategy Formulation

Seven-Hour Strategy Formulation

Flexibility in Your Sprints

Don't Leave Home without It

Strategic Friction

Communicating a New Direction to Your Grantees

Notes

14 You Do What It Takes

Step 1: Identify Your Top Priorities

Step 2: Hold Everyone Accountable

Step 3: Change Your Ways

Your Time

Your People

Your Systems and Processes

Step 4: Maintain Momentum

Notes

15 Get Moving: Transform Your Giving and Change the World!

Seven Steps You Can Take Today

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

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“You need to do this. You can do this. I can help.” This is what it feels like to work with Kris Putnam-Walkerly. What a delight it is to now have in book form the wisdom, inspiration, and tools of a gifted writer and leader in philanthropy. Thank you, Kris. We need your voice, your encouragement, and your mad skills in this work. You are a gift to the field.

Ellen LaPointe, President & CEO, Northern California Grantmakers

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Remember, her membership organization is comprised of high-net-worth donors who saw the value in this organization's work. They paid to be members! The wealth was sitting right there. But she wasn't willing to ask any of them to support this project. I'm sure one of her members would have been delighted to fund a research project that would help more philanthropists donate to progressive causes. But her scarcity mentality held her back and stifled her organization's philanthropic impact.

Now that we've discussed the guises a scarcity mentality takes in your mind, let's look at how it shows up in philanthropists' lack of investment.

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