The Philanthropic Landscape: Shifting Culture and Power through Mana Enhancing Practice (Report launch and insights sharing)

In 2019, The J R McKenzie Trust commissioned the Centre for Social impact (CSI) to produce a review of contemporary practices in philanthropy – The Philanthropic Landscape. This identified five key themes from international best practice – a focus on equity, power sharing, systems change, decolonising philanthropy and adaptability and learning. 

In 2023, J R McKenzie Trust re-commissioned CSI to develop a companion report that explores how these themes are being put into practice. The Philanthropic Landscape: Shifting Culture and Power through Mana Enhancing Practice identifies the skills, mindsets and ‘ways of being’ that philanthropy must consider in order to meaningfully share power, partner with Indigenous communities, advance equity and drive systems change. 

The new report will be launched at the PNZ Conference, and profiles the journeys of funders in Aotearoa and Australia, alongside insights from communities about the types of enabling, mana enhancing funding relationships that they aspirate to. 

At the masterclass, key insights from the report will be shared by the authors, including the need for trust and values-based relationships, ways of sharing power by enabling rangatiratanga/community self-determination, getting to shared vision and purpose, and adopting intergenerational horizons. Storytellers featured in the report will also present provocations to philanthropy and host table conversations about their journeys with mana enhancing funding practice (Dusseldorp Forum, J R McKenzie Trust, Te Pūtea Whakatupu, Wayne Francis Charitable Trust and Wesley Community Action)