![]() Our staff have to trust that they will be supported if they flag risks-so that they can still move their work forward, and work to mitigate risks. Our grantees have to get comfortable talking about the risks inherent in their proposals-and trust that we’ll work with them to mitigate those risks rather than constraining their funding. Maybe not to the point where they’re boring, but almost. What we take away from the articles in the SSIR supplement-and what we know works at The Rockefeller Foundation-is that these discussions must become routine. A Risk Toolkit put out by The Commons (a task force consisting of leading practitioners from every facet of the philanthropy marketplace working to examine ways to meet the challenge of managing for risk) offers plenty of insights into how to have those conversations at multiple levels-internally with boards and staff members, externally with grantees and partners, in requests for proposals and in monitoring and evaluation processes. ![]() The survey data are further described in the introduction by Laurie Michaels and Judith Rodin to a special SSIR supplement on risk being published today. ![]() ![]() But a survey conducted by Open Road Alliance in 2015 clearly showed that as a sector, we’re not great about discussing risk, with 76 percent of funders reporting that they don’t ask grantees to talk about project risks in proposals. If you work in philanthropy, you’ve likely heard that phrase many times. ![]()
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