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This year’s trends share a familiar wealth of examples, data, quotes, and research publications that can help us all anticipate the vectors of change. But at the core of 11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2024, readers will find a set of questions rather than answers. Each trend poses a number of moral, economic, equity-related, tactical, and other questions that the sector will have to answer.
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Expanding Equity: A Retrospective Report
In 2019, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation launched Expanding Equity to help companies transform into more equitable places of opportunity.
The Women & Girls Index
The only comprehensive data on charitable organizations dedicated to women and girls, the Women & Girls Index (WGI) tracks the landscape of women’s and girls’ organizations in the U.S., including the amount of philanthropic support they receive from individuals, foundations, and corporations.
Racial Equity in Lean Foundations: Closing the Gap Between Intention and Impact
Collected through FOMR data, surveys, and interviews with members, this report centers on the relevance of racial equity to Exponent Philanthropy members’ mission, as well as their board and staff demographics.
AHR Funding for Intersectional Organizing: A Call to Action for Human Rights Philanthropy
Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) offers this analysis as a call to action to the field to bring our practices into alignment with their promises and meet the creativity, vitality, and reality of social justice organizing today.
Partnering with Community for Better Philanthropy
This report examines the unique context of national and large foundations, including the ways in which their size, scale, and orientation pose challenges and create opportunities for meaningful partnership with communities in foundation decision-making.
Impact Investing Guide
This report is a starter resource for this interested in exploring the possibilities of impact investing.
Impact Investing: At a Tipping Point?
This 2018 briefing provides data gathered from a survey of affluent and high-net-worth people who give to charity to understand their interest in, knowledge of and experience with impact investing.
The Business Case for Racial Equity
This report seeks to expand the narrative associated with racial equity by adding a compelling economic argument to the social justice goal.
The Future of Impact Investing
This report sets a high-level vision for the future of the field of impact investing.
Lasting Impact: The Need for Responsible Exits
The report reveals investors’ strategies to strengthen their ability to meet liquidity objectives and ensure the long-term impact of their investments.
11 Tips for Foundations Interested in Getting Involved in OZs
The Opportunity Zone program, a new federal tax incentive intended to attract investments to low-income communities, is quickly rolling out across the U.S., as funds and states develop strategies to facilitate investments.
Across the Returns Continuum
This resource offers a framework for investing across the returns continuum—from commercial investments to philanthropic grants.