The Same Conversations in Philanthropy

I've attended my fair share of nonprofit and philanthropy conferences.
What keeps coming up for me is that we are having the same conversations over and over again.

Shifting power dynamics.
Staying close to community need.
Engaging in systems change.

What's missing are proposed solutions.
The HOW, rather than the WHAT.

We can have these macro conversations all day, but until there are concrete solutions proposed (or dare I say, innovative ideas), nothing will change.

I've said it many times before, and I will say it again.

AI offers a new pathway forward.

One in which technology creates access to funding opportunities for under resourced organizations.

In which AI facilitates connections, while relationships and decision-making stay human.

With less bureaucracy, there can be increased access to and distribution of funding.

I wonder what it will take to move the needle in philanthropy.

Perhaps massive AI job displacement, economic rupture, and a social reckoning will be the impetus that philanthropy needs to be more responsive?

I hope it doesn't come to that.