![]() In doing so, she began to consider why the foundation’s spending policy wasn’t built with any way to accommodate external circumstances and changing needs of their grantees. In 2016, Executive Director Dimple Abichandani approached GSF’s board of directors for a one-time increase in funding to bolster grantees after the election. The General Service Foundation (GSF)-a family foundation based in Northern California who uses all of its resources to build a more just and sustainable world-is one such funder who recently chose to revisit the purpose of their philanthropic capital and accelerate the pace of their giving. Many donors are also dedicating more types of capital to purpose-driven pursuits, and using a wider array of vehicles and investments. They are re-examining long-held beliefs about minimum distributions, increasing their payout rates, and reconsidering the perpetual lifespan of their giving efforts. In practical terms, more families are now making larger, more long-term, and more flexible gifts. ![]() We hope the ideas and examples below provide guidance and inspiration. Families need to-and can-step up to this challenge. Giving families are powerful levers for social improvement and an indispensable part of the philanthropy ecosystem. ![]() In this essay, we frame some of the difficult but essential questions family philanthropy must now address, with instructive examples of families already leading the way. We have the chance to name and debate the big questions facing us, and to draw lessons from those already pushing the edges. Many families are pushing transformative changes as well-making bold moves, taking new risks, and challenging the status quo. Thankfully, it is not just external forces pulling family philanthropy into this historic moment. If families reflect deeply in this moment on their philanthropic purpose, pace, power, and practices, and carefully choose their future path in this rapidly changing world, they will not only expand their impact but can fundamentally change the norms of our entire sector and help catalyze broader social transformation. Change is possible, but first, we must grapple with some hard questions our field has traditionally left unanswered. What makes this moment perhaps the most notable time in the history of family philanthropy is that it is a time of crucial choices-with huge potential consequences and opportunities. Re-energized movements to fight persistent systemic injustice. Astonishing wealth creation and rapidly worsening inequality. Momentous forces are sweeping across the philanthropic landscape. As close observers of the world of family giving, we are convinced this is an historic moment for families and the future of philanthropy as well. Pre-order Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam.We are living in a new gilded age. This distillation process yields a profound coherent musical message about the future of technology, humankind, spirituality, and the connectivity of the universe. Next, Danalogue and Betamax fastidiously sampled the band’s own creations, alchemically weaving the out-of-body musical collisions with microscopic attention to detail in the production room. With the help of the band’s longtime engineer Kristian Craig Robinson, the trio embarked on a four-day long recording process guided by collective intuition, sheer skill, and transcendent improvisation. The process: emerging straight from lockdown, the trio went to Peter Gabriel’s Real World decked out studio tucked away in the English countryside. On their fourth album, Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, The Comet Is Coming–synth magician/producer Danalogue, drummer-producer Betamax, and saxophonist/spiritual riffologist Shabaka–burn brightly, soundtracking our epoch of change in ways their contemporaries simply aren’t trying to. Adaptation is born out of necessity and is both terrifying and awesome in equal amounts.” By being drawn into this new potentiality, we can transcend the current conditions of our cultural programming and move forward together. COMIN OUT STRONG FUTURE INSTRUMENTAL FULLThe video emphasizes the cinematic nature of The Comet Is Coming’s music–muscular and energetic, full of tension and release and though instrumental music, imbued with coded meaning about the possibilities of our future, technology, and the evolution of humanity.ĭanalogue, synth player and in-house producer for The Comet Is Coming, says about the new single and video “The circle symbolizes many things: strength, connection, letting go of expectations and the beauty in imperfection. ![]() COMIN OUT STRONG FUTURE INSTRUMENTAL SKINThe music video features two figures in a seemingly dystopian future circling around a violent and beautiful energy field that strips our main characters of their skin showing only flesh–a symbol of letting go of cultural expectations. ![]()
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