Helping philanthropists
create meaningful impact and deepen connection
in an increasingly digital world
Understand issues.
Explore change.
Contribute meaningfully.
Deepen connection.
We Help Philanthropists
Understand
Issues
Understand
social issues
as complex systems
Explore
Change
Compare
different approaches
and outcomes
Contribute
Meaningfully
Identify
opportunities
that align with goals
Deepen
Connection
Build relationships, deepen learning, and develop purpose through philanthropy
Why Philanthropy Feels Different Today
More ways to give
Donor-advised funds and other giving vehicles have expanded
the ways philanthropists can organize and manage their giving.
More information and more choices
Technology makes it possible to discover issues and nonprofit organizations across the globe.
More generations participating
The Great Wealth Transfer is bringing new generations, perspectives, and expectations into philanthropic decisions.
More interest in understanding impact
Philanthropists increasingly want to understand the change
their giving can help create.
Why We Started Philanthropy Explorer
As philanthropy has become increasingly digital, philanthropists have access to more information, more organizations, and more ways to participate.
But more choice can make philanthropic decisions more complex.
The question is increasingly no longer:
Which organization should I support?
But:
What kind of change do I want to help create?
Answering that question begins with understanding the issue—how it works as a system, the different approaches to creating change, and the outcomes those approaches seek to achieve.
What We Are Building
Issue Maps
Helping philanthropists
understand social issues,
explore different approaches and outcomes,
and identify the type of change they want to help create.