Resources
Professional Associations
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Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
Founded in 1990, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) is a national membership and philanthropic advocacy organization dedicated to bridging philanthropy and Asian American/ Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Our members include foundations, staff and trustees of grantmaking institutions, and nonprofit organizations in eight regional chapters in the United States. AAPIP engages AAPI communities and philanthropy to address unmet needs; serves as a resource for and about AAPI communities; supports and facilitates giving by and to AAPI communities; and incubates new ideas and approaches for social justice philanthropy.
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Association of Black Foundation Executives
The mission of ABFE is to promote effective and responsive philanthropy in Black communities. Our members are a catalyst for advancing philanthropic practices that build on a tradition of self-help, empowerment, and excellence to solve the challenges faced in Black communities.
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Disability Funders Network
The Disability Funders Network (DFN) is a grantmakers' affinity group whose mission is to promote awareness, support and inclusion of people with disability issues in grantmaking programs and organizations.
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Environmental Grantmakers Association
The mission of EGA is to help member organizations become more effective environmental grantmakers through information sharing, collaboration and networking. EGA's vision is one of an informed, diverse, collaborative network of effective grantmakers who are supporting work toward a sustainable world. Recognizing the importance of diverse perspectives, the organization values ecological integrity, justice, environmental stewardship, inclusivity, transparency, accountability and respect, balancing pragmatism with the long view.
Three strategic goals have been identified to achieve the mission and vision:
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Funders for Gay and Lesbian Issues
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues seeks equality and rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and communities by mobilizing philanthropic resources that advance racial, economic and gender justice.
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Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that exists to inspire, strengthen and expand philanthropic leadership and funders' abilities to support organizations working to improve communities through better development decisions and growth policies. It brings together foundations, nonprofit organizations and other partners to address the range of environmental, social, and economic problems caused by development strategies that fail to consider the big picture.
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Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refuges (GCIR)
GCIR seeks to move the philanthropic field to advance the contributions and address the needs of the world's growing and increasingly diverse immigrant and refugee populations.
With a core focus on the United States, GCIR provides grantmakers with opportunities for learning, networking, and collaboration, as well as information resources that:
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Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families
Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (GCYF) is a membership association of grantmaking institutions. Our mission is to increase the ability of organized philanthropy to improve the well-being of children, youth and families. We serve as a forum to review and analyze grantmaking strategies, exchange information about effective programs, examine public policy developments and maintain ongoing discussions with national leaders.
Representatives of more than 500 private, corporate, community, and family foundations of all sizes participate in GCYF events and programs. Member interests include the development of public policies benefiting children to specific program areas, such as early childhood, youth development and family support. Those who participate in GCYF are a diverse group, ranging from trustees to executive directors to program officers
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Grantmakers for Education
Grantmakers for Education is philanthropy's knowledge source for achieving results in education. We provide professional development, information and networking to grantmakers to help foundations and donors improve achievement and opportunities for all students through their investments. Founded in 1995, we are a national network of over 200 foundations, corporate giving programs, and individual donors. GFE members represent a diverse and experienced cross-section of grantmakers working to change programs, systems and institutions from pre-kindergarten through higher education.
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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) is a coalition of grantmakers committed to building strong and effective nonprofit organizations. Understanding that grantmakers are successful only to the extent that their grantees achieve meaningful results, GEO promotes strategies and practices that contribute to grantee success.
Believing that grantmakers can only succeed when the nonprofits they support achieve meaningful results, GEO provides philanthropy's change agents with the resources, ideas and connections they need to make the greatest contribution to the nonprofits they invest in.
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Grantmakers in Aging
(GIA) works to promote and strengthen grantmaking for an aging society. GIA is an educational organization for staff and trustees of foundations and corporate foundations/giving programs that enables its members to network with other funders in aging, gain tools to make excellent aging grants, acquire information about the needs of the elderly as well as the resources they bring to their communities, receive updates about trends and policy changes affecting older adults, learn about current and upcoming funding initiatives in aging, and link to other sources of information in the field of aging.
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Grantmakers in the Arts
Grantmakers in the Arts is a membership organization whose trade is discourse on ideas about arts philanthropy within a diverse community of grantmakers. Founded in 1985, GIA maintains a lightweight infrastructure that supports its members' work together. Members include private, community, corporate, and family foundations, as well as public sector grantmakers, regranting organizations whose primary purpose is arts grantmaking, and individual donors who give through eligible organizations.
GIA programs include an annual conference, a major periodical, research, and other convening and communication services. Over 1,300 individuals - both trustees and staff - participate in GIA, representing over 300 organizations. The key assets that members bring to GIA's work are knowledge and relationships.
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Grantmakers in Health
Grantmakers in Health (GIH) is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to helping foundations and corporate giving programs improve the health of all people. Its mission is to foster communication and collaboration among grantmakers and others, and to help strengthen the grantmaking community's knowledge, skills, and effectiveness. Formally launched in 1982, GIH is known today as the professional home for health grantmakers, and a resource for grantmakers and others seeking expertise and information on the field of health philanthropy.
GIH generates and disseminates information about health issues and grantmaking strategies that work in health by offering issue-focused forums, workshops, and large annual meetings; publications; continuing education and training; technical assistance; consultation on programmatic and operational issues; and by conducting studies of health philanthropy. Additionally, the organization brokers professional relationships and connects health grantmakers with each other as well as with grantmakers in other fields whose work has important implications for health. It also develops targeted programs and activities, and provides customized services on request to individual funders.
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Hispanics in Philanthropy
HIP's mission is to strengthen Latino communities by increasing resources for the Latino and Latin American civil sector; by increasing Latino participation and leadership throughout the field of philanthropy; and to foster policy change to enhance equity and inclusiveness. -
Joint Affinity Groups
Founded in 1993, the Joint Affinity Groups (JAG) is a coalition of grantmaker associations that engages the field of philanthropy to reach its full potential by supporting diversity, inclusiveness and the principles of social justice and promoting a more equitable distribution of resources. JAG exemplifies the broad meaning of 'diversity' that is inclusive of sexual orientation/identity and disability. JAG is dedicated to the principle of accountability to one another and to all of the communities we serve. JAG strives to advance the principles of social justice in philanthropy and the non-profit sector through convenings, educational programs and research.
The JAG Partners are:
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National Network of Grantmakers
The National Network of Grantmakers is an organization of individuals involved in funding social and economic justice. The Network values individuals, projects, and organizations working for systemic change in the U.S. and abroad, in order to create an equitable distribution of wealth and power, and mutual respect for all peoples. NNG works primarily within organized philanthropy to increase financial and other resources to groups committed to social and economic justice.
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Native Americans in Philanthropy
Native Americans in Philanthropy seeks to engage Native and non-Native peoples in understanding and advancing the role of philanthropy through practices that support Native traditional values for current and future generations.
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Women & Philanthropy
Since 1977, Women & Philanthropy has been a network and a voice for positive change in the field of philanthropy. Our research, events, services and network of members have helped increase both the amount of philanthropic dollars awarded to women and girls and the number of women working at all levels in the field of philanthropy. Today, we are poised with new initiatives to educate and mobilize the field of philanthropy while helping foundations improve their effectiveness.
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Women's Funding Network
Founded in 1985, the Women's Funding Network (WFN) is an international organization with over 100 member funds (and 20 associate members) that are committed to improving the status of women and girls locally, nationally and globally. WFN works to strengthen and empower member funds.
