Ktisis helps guide individuals and families through their philanthropic journey. We’ll meet you where you are; explore your interests, passions and values; and strategize together on steps to move your philanthropic activity forward. Individualized learning can take many forms including regular 1:1 conversations with members of the Ktisis team to developing custom research and reports helping you understand the issues you are most passionate about to help selecting and building an itinerary of conversations, conferences, and trainings to attend (with or without Ktisis) to help you meet your learning goals.
Custom Engagements
If there are specific topics or trainings that you are interested in discussing and designing for your family or team, please reach out to us.
Past Engagements
Below are samples of engagements that we have conducted with clients.
Guided Conversations
A central part of most individualized learning engagements are a series of guided conversations with you and members of the Ktisis team to explore your vision for your philanthropy and develop a strategy. We will examine issues, priorities, giving vehicle options, structure and options for levels of engagement.
Together, we will identify and explore issue areas that are of priority to you. We will walk through these areas of potential funding to determine the most impactful way to support organizations and causes. Through these conversations and narrowing of focus, areas of priority will begin to emerge and will form the foundation of research into specific organizations.
Peer Conversations & FIeld Learning
Everyone experiences this journey differently and too often philanthropic planning conversations only focus on the “business” side of things or happen in isolation. To bring in the personal and to help you explore the weight of this responsibility, we often coordinate a series of peer conversations with other donors and funders in the philanthropic space with whom you share some commonalities from personal/family story to issue priorities. Through these conversations, you will learn about their journeys, how they handle the responsibility, and how and why they developed their strategies as they did. To complement these peer conversations, we often help clients sift through the many trainings and conferences available throughout the year and help them create a custom itinerary to expand their networks and learn from other leaders.
Customized Reports & Research
Depending on where you are in your prioritization, targeted deep research can help inform your strategy and prepare you for grantmaking or to adjust your approach. Our team regularly develops and produces highly customized internal research and reports depending on your needs. This may include developing customized reading lists (with or without annotation), summary reports about the state of the field based on our own knowledge and research, or more extensive reporting built on a landscape scan and strategy interviews with leaders in the field. Landscape scans are used to identify prospective grantees, key networks and coalitions, funder allies and funder communities that you may want to support and engage with over the coming years. How many issues and how broadly we scan on each is something we can determine together based on how your plans and needs evolve.