Our Legacy for the Future is intended as a moment of reflection on the key advances in knowledge arising from the major research partnership we initiated in 2018 on Canadian grantmaking philanthropy.
Our partnership aimed to perfect our understanding of the impact of grantmaking foundations on major issues related to social and environmental justice. Our work and the knowledge translation activities we carried out demonstrated both the importance of these organizations and the need to consolidate and enhance the Canadian philanthropic ecosystem.
This was the thinking behind the PhiLab 2022 symposium, which invited us to reimagine philanthropy. It is in this context, and in a more applied and pragmatic way, that the Our legacy for the future 2024 summit will take place.
Based on the main findings of our work and the key conversations we’ve had with our research and philanthropic partners; four major themes have been identified and will be addressed in the form of six round-table discussions.
- Opening round table: Keynote speakers
- Panel I: Philanthropy’s gaps: What we don’t see
- Panel II: Looking under the hood: Aligning foundation operations and goals
- Panel III: Relationship with communities: Philanthropy in solidarity with equity-deserving and groups
- Panel IV: Networks, Partnerships and Trust
- Conclusive round table: Partnership research contributions
These forums will bring together representatives of the Canadian philanthropic ecosystem to share their thoughts on each of the major themes.
These representatives will be invited to propose courses of action or identify recommendations with a view to draw up a roadmap of the collective policies to be considered in support of our re-imagining of philanthropy.
By collective policies, we mean all the regulatory mechanisms that need to be thought through and implemented in relation to the wide diversity of players that need to be mobilized to make our society socially fairer and ecologically more viable. This diversity of players relies on a broad mobilization of the business world, civil society organizations, various levels of government and, most certainly, all players in the Canadian philanthropic ecosystem.