High impact philanthropy in practice
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy’s annual giving toolkit provides individual donors and professional grantmakers with actionable guidance for high impact giving year-round.
We include a practical guide on what high impact philanthropy really means and four high-level strategies to help you practice it, no matter what cause or geographic community you care about. To demonstrate high impact philanthropy in practice, we spotlight evergreen areas that are foundational to people’s survival: education, health, housing, and conservation and livelihoods. In each area, you’ll find four nonprofit examples showing best practices in action.
This year we provide a first look at our Community Resilience Framework, a new, timely framework to help funders strength communities so they can withstand economic shocks and both natural and human-made crises.
In this Toolkit
These are uncertain times, as many face economic struggles, health crises, natural disasters, and a growing mistrust of public institutions. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed, even paralyzed. This guide is about the opposite: deciding how you can help. Whether you have $10 or $1 million to give, we hope this guide and the resources in the digital toolkit help you turn your concern for others into real-world impact.
How to Practice High Impact Philanthropy
No one wants to practice “low-impact” philanthropy. But what does “high impact philanthropy” actually mean?
We define high impact philanthropy as the practice of using private philanthropic resources for the public good. In other words, it’s philanthropy for social impact.
Community Resilience Framework
A first look at a new and timely framework to help funders address today’s polycrises, from climate disasters to economic shocks. This framework introduces a way for donors and institutional grantmakers to consider investments that increase community resilience. Increasing community resilience mitigates the most severe harm caused by crises, can help prevent future ones, and starts building the long-term strength communities need to thrive amid ongoing change
Four Philanthropic Plays
Philanthropic support takes many forms. It can fund nonprofit programs that provide services directly to those in need; increase the capacity of systems so that multiple programs and organizations are more effective and efficient; support policy & advocacy initiatives that change the environment in which nonprofits work; and fund research & innovation with the potential for game-changing progress.
High Impact in Practice
To demonstrate high impact in practice, we spotlight evergreen areas that are foundational to people’s survival: education, health, housing, and conservation and livelihoods. These are not the only issues that matter. But when resources are limited and the needs feel overwhelming, it can be helpful to focus on these foundational areas as one starting point for creating high impact. You’ll find best practices in each issue area and nonprofit examples that serve as real-world applications of best practices in action.
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The Fidelity Charitable® Catalyst Fund is a grantmaking program of Fidelity Charitable, led by its Board of Trustees and separate from its donor-advised fund program. The Catalyst Fund envisions a world where nonprofits that strengthen our communities have access to the resources they need to flourish. By investing in intermediaries such as the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, the Catalyst Fund helps build bridges between individual donors and promising nonprofits. When donors and nonprofits partner together, we can empower communities to thrive.
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