"In some areas, our goals can be quantifiable. But in the arts space, it would be a mistake to quantify our success based on what is achievable rather than what is meaningful." - Sam Gill, Doris Duke Foundation #YPC2022

"We shouldn't just be asking where is there good that we can do, but rather, what are we best placed to do?" - Sam Gill, Doris Duke Foundation #YPC2022

"This isn’t binary, it isn’t as though there are small bets and big bets and nothing in the middle…just think about using your best judgment about how to use resources at what size and over what period of time." - Harvey Dale (NYU Law) #YPC2022

"Right now we’re talking about philanthropy with a “big P”…but philanthropy with a “little P” is your cousin, is your neighbor…my dream and my end game is about going from the big P to the little P, moving to liberation and moving to reciprocity." - Chera Reid Center for Evaluation Innovation

"To the question of what philanthropy can uniquely do, we have the luxury of inquiry - convening exploration and solutions around issues, from multiple perspectives." - Valerie Chang (MacArthur Foundation) #YPC2022

"Right now we’re working in 5% solutions…Asking people to do all the work with 5% solution money is never going to get us to that end game." - Chera Reid (Center for Evaluation Innovation) #YPC2022

“We need everybody who is working in Philanthropic organizations to learn how to show up, how to close that distance with people who work in nonprofits and are involved in movements" - Chera Reid (Center for Evaluation Innovation) #YPC2022

"I think it's critical for philanthropy to be more comfortable with incremental change - because most problems society faces aren't new, and therefore by definition hard to solve." - Harvey Dale (NYU Law) #YPC2022

“Most of the time people know what the ask is, the question is what are the barriers to delivering on that ask” - Rodney D. Foxworth #YPC2022

“It’s interesting the types of decisions you’re able to make with so little information when there is fundamental faith in the communities” - Rodney D. Foxworth #YPC2022

"We know that all of these structures and challenges were not created in five years and won’t be solved in five years, so we were thinking about how we could take steps to address them in the long term." - Kaberi Banerjee Murthy (Meyer Memorial Trust) #YPC2022

"We’re aiming for liberation…At the end of the day, [our goal] is obsolescence, and putting ourselves out of a job" - Kaberi Banerjee Murthy (Meyer Memorial Trust) #YPC2022

"The fear of getting it wrong shouldn’t be the thing that keeps you from trying to do it”- Kaberi Banerjee Murthy (Meyer Memorial Trust) #YPC2022

“We do need all forms of capital if we’re going to get to 100% solutions” - Chera Reid (Center for Evaluation Innovation) #YPC2022

“We all have some degree of agency in trying to shift the way philanthropy works” - Marcus Haymon (Dalberg) #YPC2022

Announcing the 2023 Yale Philanthropy Conference! This year, our theme is Advancing Justice - a deliberate framing to facilitate conversations on racial equity, the climate crisis, voting rights, and more. Register at yalephilanthropyconference.com #philanthropy #yale

Thrilled to be present for Yale Philanthropy Conference in New Haven, a terrific Yale School of Management student-led annual conference imagining the future of philanthropy. This year’s theme ADVANCING JUSTICE resonates today.

“My (Native Americans) healing is interconnected to your healing.” Edgar Villanueva at the Yale Philanthropy Conference.