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The Year Ahead: Impact Investing and Philanthropy in 2022
...sectors of investment, philanthropy, and policy, and then hopefully proving models that those sectors can build upon. The interesting overlap with the social sector relates to the view of philanthropy...
Insights & Inquiry on Strategic Time Horizons
...away from in-perpetuity models as the default. Driven by our mission to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors explores how time horizon decisions are being...
Innovative Approaches to Accelerate Your Philanthropy
...Foundation’s efforts to destigmatize failure, describing philanthropy as “society’s risk capital.” Philanthropy has the freedom to experiment and fail in that experimentation. “We do not have time to repeat the...
Women in Philanthropy: Dismantling the Gender Gap
...issues such as reproductive health or gender equity in the workplace, are becoming increasingly popular funding areas. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) has long understood the importance of accelerating philanthropy in...
Columbia Business School Students Award $100,000 Prize Through Competitive Evaluation
...philanthropy into the hands of young people. Students at Columbia Business School in the Global Philanthropy course reviewed the highest-rated applications in the MacArthur 100&Change 2021 funding competition through a...
Funder Collaboratives: A Topic Brief for Donors
...Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ Collaborative Giving guide in the Philanthropy Roadmap series. The guide provides a broad overview of the benefits, considerations, and pitfalls of participating in a funder collaborative, along...
Houston’s John and Laura Arnold Change Tacks on Philanthropy
Billionaire philanthropists are finding traditional methods of philanthropy aren’t sufficient to tackle the problems they have in their sights to solve. Earlier this week, John and Laura Arnold, billionaires in...
How Impact Investing Can Amplify Philanthropic Efforts
For years, philanthropy and investing have been treated as separate disciplines—one championing social change, the other financial gain. The idea that the two approaches could be integrated in the same...
SDG Philanthropy Platform
...the philanthropy sector engage more effectively in the global development goal processes, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors launched the SDG Philanthropy Platform, in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and...
New in the Philanthropy Roadmap Series: Resources on Giving in Challenging Times, Collaborative Giving, and Operating for Impact
Continuing our practice of providing guidance on the most relevant issues in the philanthropic sector, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors has launched three new additions to our Philanthropy Roadmap series. Since the...
To Whom is Your Philanthropy Accountable?
A Discussion on Values, Perceived Role, and Social Compact At recent workshops with foundation and philanthropy executives, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors posed the question, “To whom are you accountable?” This query...
Breathing Through Injustice: Philanthropy’s Call to Action
...higher standard for those who are unwarrantedly expected to be violent, criminal, or “savage”. Where Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Stands Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors condemns all forms of racism, as well as...
Press, Commentary and Events
...in a Changing World Alliance Corporate Philanthropy’s COVID-19 Test The European Business Review The Philanthropy Canvas: Evaluating a Foundation’s Operating Model Alliance New Philanthropic Model in The Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’...
Mental Health Philanthropy Needs
This article was originally published in the magazine of Via Clarita, a Czech philanthropy advisory group with which RPA has previously partnered. Donzelina Barroso is a Director of Global Philanthropy...
The Transformative Power of Listening: An Interview with Fund for Shared Insight
As part of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ commemoration of 20 years, we are featuring in depth profiles of key sponsored projects. Fund for Shared Insight (“Shared Insight”) is a national funder...
Philanthropy Needs More Walk, Less Talk to Create Systems Change
...the “walking” stage in creating long-lasting systems change and the implications of those transformations for philanthropy: We create change by working together. Within the field of philanthropy, there’s more collaboration...
Collaborating to BUILD Transformational Change: A Shifting Systems Initiative Summary Report
...relationship-building, and deep levels of trust, philanthropy has the tools to transform these systems of power. As part of this work, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ Shifting Systems Initiative gathered important stakeholders...
Failure as a KPI: Finding Philanthropy’s Courage to Fund and Fail (and Talk About It!)
I have attended a few social impact conferences recently, where the discussion has focused on “reimagining philanthropy,” yet the ideas swirling about have often been surprisingly unimaginative. In my previous...
RPA Continues its ‘Road to Bold’ With Uniquely Large Presence at the United Nations General Assembly
...Philanthropy Forum’s (APF) “Road to Marrakech” event, which was a collaboration with the Global Philanthropy Forum, to gather philanthropists, high-net-worth individuals, and foundation CEOs from across the world ahead of...
New Report: Engaging Brazilian Social Private Investment in the Global Development Agenda
...Philanthropy Platform, of which Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is a key partner, provides insights on and highlights these developments in the context of the various economic, social, and political turmoil occurring...