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2013 Philanthropy Institute
Philanthropy creates new paths to different futures. And perhaps there has been no more important time to veer from probabilities and create preferable futures than now.
Keynote: The Abundant Future
There is no true scarcity--only disconnection of resources. We live in a sea of possible partners and allies. Yet we often engage and capture the imagination of only a tiny portion. Many of those who could bring resources, intelligence, and energy are right around us. But we must learn to engage these allies in new ways. In some health systems, philanthropy exceeds the amount of money left from operations. Novel partnerships with payers and consumer product companies provide both resources and expertise. And donors work with clinical and executive leaders to develop centers for innovation and new care models. The potential for abundance exists even in apparent scarcity.
Theater of Generosity
Every patient room, treatment area, hallway, and lobby is an opportunity for theater. Patients and families who enter these spaces create stories in their mind. They form narratives about how everything came to exist—the impressive buildings, technologies, and services.
Workshop: Design the Donor Experience
How many people walking out the doors of your hospital today have an emotional connection to your foundation?
High-Performance Foundations
In their narrowest role, foundations fundraise. In their broadest strategic role, foundations do far more-and in the process attract greater resources. Asking for gifts is not enough. It may actually be the smallest aspect of high-performance development. The greater challenge is to embed generosity into every patient experience, bring generosity to life throughout the culture, design experiences of giving that are transforming for donors, and intersect philanthropy and innovation at the highest level in the organization. When these things happen, the ability to attract resources increases profoundly. This broader strategic role requires a new understanding of development. And it requires the engagement of leaders across the entire hospital. To assist in this process this internal communications tool defines four essential and interconnected roles for the high-performance foundation of the future.
Workshop: Generosity
Although our circumstance affects our capacity for generous experience, we can develop a greater capacity for generous experience across a larger range of circumstance.
Generosity Heals
Visit the Generosity Toolbox and Innovation Circle.
2013 Philanthropy Institute
Dates
April 21-23, 2013 at Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa
About the Program
Philanthropy creates new paths to different futures. And perhaps there has been no more important time to veer from probabilities and create preferable futures than now.
Philanthropy is at the leading edge of change across the world. It can accomplish what is difficult through operational or other funding. Explore how to grow the wealth of your foundation and develop it into a powerful evolutionary force—the nexus of people, resources, ideas, and innovation.
The Institute is a think-tank for possibility. Each year we convene people on the edge developing novel strategies. Together we engage in maverick conversation, explore ways of flourishing through entirely new approaches, build tools, describe extraordinary successes, and evolve our foundations for even higher impact.
The Experience
Although there are a few formal presentations, most sessions are times where multiple people explore ideas together and lead a conversation across the entire group, describe how something might work, seed a new idea, or build a practical tool. There are also times during the day when you converse with your team. Expect some stretch ideas touching into dimensions of philanthropy rarely explored. Underpinning everything is a vision for how foundations can function in a much higher strategic role. See High-Performance Foundations for a short look into some of these possibilities.
Topics
- Special Breakfast Session: CEO Partnership
- The Future of Generosity
- Philanthropy for Care Transformation
- Innovating in How We Engage Physicians and Staff
- Innovating in How We Engage Boards
- Seed Thought: Generosity and Human Evolution
- Seed Thought: Greed and Generosity as Competing Forces
- Innovating in How We Engage Families of Wealth
- Innovating in How We Engage Patients
- Next Innovation: A Generosity Curriculum
Participate as a Team
Typically organizations participate in groups of five. Teams usually include the hospital CEO, executive director of the foundation, board members and selected donors. After you hear a presentation, think together as a team and consider what you want to do back home. Avoid the "fading epiphany" and capture the energy and clarity of the moment. We also continue to keep a few openings for those who wish to come as individuals without full teams.
A Circle of Innovators
The future is shaped by people in surprisingly small circles. More essential than any particular segment of content is relationship with a creative professional network. Much innovation is emergent-it happens through the creative synthesis with remarkable people in a creative environment. Build your network through the community of people who come together each year in this experience. One great idea is your highest return on investment.
Special Feature: The Gratitude Wall
Few spaces in hospitals overflow with the energy of abundance and gratitude. Donor walls provide recognition but rarely evoke a strong heart connection or invite interaction. And they seldom create a genuine experience of community. So most people pass by, oblivious.
We are piloting a gratitude wall for a cancer center. It does not replace the donor wall, but is designed to do something different and complementary. People will interact with the gratitude wall, writing about what is beautiful in their lives. We describe this as part of the content cluster “Innovating in How We Engage Patients.”
Special Feature: Generosity Deck
Many families have few conversations about how they can be more generous with each other, how money both enables and limits them, the best and worst futures for the family made more likely because of wealth, what they would like to learn or transform in relationship to money, how well they are using money as a carrier of purpose, etc. For this reason, we created a deck of cards to be used by families of wealth.
On Tuesday you experience the deck and think about how to use it in your foundation.
2013 Location: Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa
The Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa is an inspiring location set on coastal bluffs with fountains, courtyards, outdoor fireplaces, gardens, and fine food.
Estancia is a Spanish word with several shades of meaning. It’s usually translated as “place of rest,” but a stay in the hospital is also called an estancia in Spanish—as is a sojourn abroad.
The word also applies to the place one stays. Mansions are estancias and by extrapolation from that, big cattle ranches in South America are called estancias. The Estancia La Jolla was once an equestrian estate and training ground for young thoroughbreds.
Today it blends a natural setting and idyllic coastal environment with rancho-style architecture, a world-class spa, and award-winning restaurants. The Estancia La Jolla was recently listed on the “hot list” for Conde Nast Traveler.