Giving Compass' Take:

• Putnam Consulting Group discusses ways to increase your skills in philanthropy and ways to find your "secret weapon" when it comes to giving back. 

• What are other ways to strengthen your philanthropy? How can you inspire others to get involved?

• Here are some insights on how philanthropy can change in 2019. 

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.

  1. What do you read?
  2. Where can you build camaraderie?
  3. Whom do you confide in?

Read the full article about what's your secret philanthropic weapon by Kris Putnam-Walkerly at Putnam Consulting Group