Communities all over the world are overflowing with abundance — abundance of talent, ideas and solutions.
The trouble is, for all the promise of this abundance, and remarkable and ready potential, we must unlock the resources needed to support talent, activate ideas and fund solutions for all of this abundance to have impact.
Unfortunately, the process of unlocking said resources evades us today. Those with resources hesitate to fund with trust and an abundance mindset. Resources remain stored away even as our most pressing challenges compound (and long after tax benefits have been received, in many cases). Restrictive and inefficient practices dominate our philanthropic ethos, permeating the very roots of our philanthropic infrastructure and undermining even the most committed do-gooders.
Unless and until those with resources embrace philanthropic practice with an abundance mindset, we simply cannot make the progress our people and planet need. We must commit now to a shift in our dominant worldview, or we will very soon run out of time.