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Investing in Our Future: Critical Ways Philanthropy Can Help Every Young Child and Family Thrive (January 2026)

The Bridgespan Group’s guide, Investing in Our Future: Critical Ways Philanthropy Can Help Every Young …

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Funder Messaging Toolkit: Making the Case for Supporting Immigrants in Your Grantmaking (2025)

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants & Refugees (GCIR) has developed a messaging toolkit to support funders …

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Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (2021)

This book explores philanthropy’s role in systems change and how philanthropic inequity can undermine democracy. …

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Dear Philanthropy: These Are the Fires of Anti-Black Racism (2020)

This article examines how systemic anti-Black racism and white supremacy are integrated into philanthropic organizations …

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The Philanthropic Advisory Complex Is Failing Us (2025)

This article discusses philanthropy’s historical reliance on a network of elite philanthropic advisors — large …

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The Philanthropic Self-Reflection Tool for Equitable Parent Partnership (2022)

Creating more equitable partnerships and outcomes in communities requires relationship building, honest communication and commitment …

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Investment Advisory Councils: A Community-Driven Grantmaking Pilot (Feb, 2023)

In 2020, The Heinz Endowments began an evaluation partnership with Child Trends. Their goal was to strengthen …

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Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact (2009)

Philanthropy at its best serves public good, not private interest. The public has a legitimate interest …

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