“Ikhala Trust is definitely about a ‘power with’ approach. We cannot deny that we are powerful because we have a resource called money. However, where a community driven social justice agenda comes in is when we recognize the resources the community has and are able to say that we have power together to change a situation. What money does for us is that it leverages a relationship and solutions that are community owned.”
Bernie Dolley, Director of Ikhala Trust, Cape Town, South Africa talks about the role that philanthropy must play, the questions we as the philanthropic field need to be asking of ourselves, the value of small grants, and overcoming barriers posed my emphasis on quantifiable outcomes in philanthropy.