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Accelerating Change for Women and Girls: The Role of Women’s Funds

This 2009 report by The Foundation Center and Women’s Funding Network provides an overview of the current landscape of philanthropy focused on women and girls, and serves to document the specific role played by women’s funds. The report finds that in recent years funding for women and girls by the broader foundation community has grown […]


State of the Work: Mapping the Landscape and D5’s Path Forward on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Philanthropy

This 2011 report by the D5 Coalition, the first report in an annual series, is designed to guide D5’s work and measure its progress over the next five years. It begins to illuminate where U.S. the philanthropic sector is on a number of fronts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, including board and staff composition; […]


Increasing Impact, Enhancing Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Leading Corporate Philanthropy

This 2012 guide by the Council on Foundations seeks to engage the corporate philanthropy community in discussion to assess the purpose and value of corporate foundation and giving programs. These discussions will allow programs to continue to increase their impact and enhance value to the companies they represent.


Future Matters – Equity Advancing Equity: How Community Philanthropy Can Build Racial and Social Equity Through Mission Investing

This 2009 report is part of a series of Future Matters reports and toolkit by Blueprint Research & Design and GPS Capital Partners LLC. This paper brings together two ostensibly disparate definitions of equity—one that relates to the distribution of resources across economic and racial groups and another that looks at capital market concepts and […]


Growing Opportunities: Will Funding Follow the Rise in Foundation Assets and Growth of AAPI Populations?

This 2007 report by the Asian Americans/ Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy provides data and analysis on funding in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in the United States. The report includes the amount of funding to community issues, who gives and receives the funding, the giving patterns that emerge, and how well AAPI […]