Giving Compass' Take:
- The Center for High Impact Philanthropy’s produces a toolkit each year to support donors in engaging in a high impact giving.
- How can donors put into action the practical guidance in this toolkit?
- Learn other ways to maximize your giving with our Guide to Good Giving.
- Search Guide to Good for local nonprofits.
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In this Toolkit
This year, our High Impact Giving Toolkit focuses on strategies for practicing high impact philanthropy. Whether you have $5 or $5 billion, we hope this toolkit and our team’s efforts help you translate your generosity and good intentions into greater social impact.
How to Practice High Impact Philanthropy
No one wants to practice “low-impact” philanthropy. But what does “high impact philanthropy” actually mean?
We define high impact philanthropy as the practice of using private philanthropic resources for the public good. In other words, it’s philanthropy for social impact.
The 2025 High Impact Giving Toolkit includes three Emerging Topics in Philanthropy that our team identified as particularly effective strategies for amplifying funders’ philanthropic impact, no matter the cause area or community they care about. This section highlights three tools: Collective Giving, Guaranteed Income, and News & Civic Information.
Four Philanthropic Plays
Philanthropic support takes many forms. It can fund nonprofit programs that provide services directly to those in need; increase the capacity of systems so that multiple programs and organizations are more effective and efficient; support policy & advocacy initiatives that change the environment in which nonprofits work; and fund research & innovation with the potential for game-changing progress.
Takeaways from Nonprofit Exemplars
Here, you’ll find a list of the organizations profiled with take-away lessons learned, as well as links to other nonprofits we’ve profiled in recent years that are performing related work.
Read the full article about high impact giving at Center for High Impact Philanthropy.