Impact Philanthropy

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) works with funders all over the world, including dozens of grantmakers headquartered in Europe. Recently, CEP joined the Philanthropy Europe Associate (Philea), an association…

Unrestricted funds are grants or donations nonprofits get to spend any way they believe is appropriate to further their mission. Unrestricted funding can also come with some limitations. Donors might,…

We all benefit when our most transformative change agents are given the time and resources necessary to dream big.

In this blog, Eric Arellano explains why they are allocating 40% of their donations to ending animal agriculture as a promising and still neglected strategy to mitigate the climate emergency.

Climate change represents a critical challenge to humanity. While there are still some that contest this fact, most of the world accepts that we must act now to reduce the…

Batista Artimisa Machava owns a small business in Mozambique. But as a low-income gig worker, growing his income is hard. Batista recently discovered Con-Héctor, a WhatsApp-based virtual assistant dedicated to…

The ocean and its resources are being depleted, polluted, and over-exploited. While many groups – from governments, philanthropy, development banks to NGOs – are working hard on the issue, there are still big gaps.

In this episode we talk to Nell Edgington, President of non-profit consultancy Social Velocity, about her new book “Reinventing Social Change: Embrace Abundance to Create a Healthier and More Equitable…

At the beginning of the pandemic, it was clear we faced an unprecedented crisis. COVID-19 was not only taking lives, but destroying livelihoods too, with Black and Latine communities hit…

The climate crisis is everywhere we look with record heatwaves, extreme cold snaps, floods, wildfires, droughts, and storms. Natural disasters continue to increase in frequency and scale, with hundreds of…

In mission-driven circles, systems-change work – which is focused on the root causes of problems – is sometimes treated like an unattainable dream. But it doesn’t have to be.In studying successful equitable social-change efforts ……