The Donor Salon, Rethinking How to Catalyze Change

We mentioned a Donor Salon in <a href="https://segalfamily.medium.com/back-but-we-never-left-agm-returns-with-a-bang-8ced2d710db8" rel="noopener">the previous article</a> and you may be wondering what that is. Within the philanthropy sector, there is an abundance of resources offered to doers (such as our <a href="https://www.segalfamilyfoundation.org/partner-resources/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Active Partnership</a> package), and it’s seldom thought that donors might need the same. Segal Family Foundation has been working with peer funders for years, and we get many questions: how do we work with local African organizations? How do we overcome logistical barriers to making grants internationally? How do we decentralize decision-making power? A relatively new concept, donor salons are spaces for those on the funding side of philanthropy to speak candidly with one another and relate experiences. We hosted <a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/2cfcc317-fa39-4026-864b-e709f5a41767/websitePage:fc377364-e2d2-4fd3-a1ee-a9f590d992f6" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">our first-ever Donor Salon</a> during the week of our 2023 Annual Meeting in Kigali last month, intended as an opportunity to gather fellow funding organizations who are interested in the things we also care about: African leaders, local ideas in action, and collaboration.  <a href="https://segalfamily.medium.com/the-donor-salon-rethinking-how-to-catalyze-change-934439d0275f">Read More</a>