Never walk alone: co-impact philanthropy

In this lecture Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen will examine how funders can often talk about impact as if they own it. She will argue that impact is about the sustainable change generated through an activity, and attributing such things to a single actor is near impossible. Investment plays its part but can lead to philanthropists being treated as the smartest people in the room. However, wisdom relies on the crowd – the lived experience of stakeholders that often are from much less privileged backgrounds than the funder. The speaker will explore these and other dilemmas in philanthropy.