Participatory philanthropy leverages the wisdom of crowds to improve and democratize giving. Rather than a single philanthropist or foundation deciding how money is donated, participatory philanthropy involves crowdsourcing ideas from the public and allowing public voting to determine which projects and ideas receive funding. This distributes decision making more widely and can potentially lead to innovative solutions that address the priorities of communities.

1. Participatory Philanthropy
How the wisdom of the crowds can improve
and democratize the giving of

2. Isaac Newton 1643 - 1727

3. John Harrison 1693 - 1776

5. Philanthropy
Then
Andrew Carnegie financed
the public library system in
the US and Britain.

6. PHILANTHROPY NOW
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER > THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION

7. Who should decide how
philanthropic money is
given away?
We should.

8. 1920’s - Columbia Finance professor Jack
sociologist Hazel Knight Treynor asks his 56 students
asks classroom to guess to guess how many jelly
temperature. Their collective beans are in a jar. Their
answer was only .4 degrees group estimate, 871, was
off. only 21 off and closer than
all but one individual guess.
The Wisdom of Crowds

9. Changemakers.net
Open sourcing social solutions

10. Involvement &
Expertise

11. - The Judges
- Commenter
The Crowd & The Experts

12. Idea Blob
Users Choose What is Funded

13. Organic Food Vending Machines
$10,000 to help start new business

14. Votes, Comments, and Advice

15. Knight News Challenge
$5 Million every year for innovative journalism

17. Who will give away his money?