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.