Drie mythes over werken bij vermogensfondsen

There is no benefit to holding ourselves to impossible ideas or standards, so let’s bust a few common myths about foundation work. The first myth is that it’s easy to give money away, the second is that foundation staff can do everything that needs to be done for effective grantmaking, and the third is that you should keep failure to yourself. These myths are not simply untrue, they may actually be destructive. We’ll briefly examine each.

Free yourself from the daily grind and support your best work! Keeping up with board meetings, grant applications, new partnerships, changes in technology and more can make the day-to-day work of managing a foundation very full, and sometimes overflowing. Every foundation CEO or board chair needs to create space for something more, though—your own way of pausing the routine and thinking bigger. I like to call it a “secret weapon.” It varies for each individual, but the outcome is the same: allowing time to better reflect, think and inform your philanthropy.