Our Guidance

FEATURED GUIDANCE

RECENT GUIDANCE

Community-Based Approaches to Health

The XX Factor: A Comprehensive Framework for Improving the Lives of Women and Girls

Reconnected: How to Help Opportunity Youth

Program-Related Investments

GLOBAL HEALTH

• Community-Based Approaches to Health
• Improving Child Survival Rates (guidance for donors)
• Saving Newborn Lives- developing world (high impact opportunity)
• Lifting the Burden of Malaria (funder investment guide)
• Community-Based Approaches to Health
• High Impact Opportunity: Vaccinations

WOMEN & GIRLS

• The XX Factor: A Comprehensive Framework for Improving the Lives of Women and Girls
• The XX Factor Guidebook: How to Align Financial Investments to Improve the Lives of Women & Girls
• Investing in Women and Girls (high impact opportunity)

MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION

• Behavioral Health – mental health and addiction
• Lifting the Burden of Addiction – focus on the US (funder investment guide) 
• Preventing Deaths from heroin and painkiller overdoses (high impact opportunity)
• Refuge and treatment for homeless Americans with drug addiction (high impact opportunity)
• High Impact Opportunity: Homelessness

DISASTER RELIEF

• Disaster Relief and Recovery: High Impact Disaster Philanthropy
• How Can I Help? (guidance on our blog)
• Haiti: How Can I Help? (funder investment guide)

EDUCATION

• Invest in a Strong Start for Children: A Toolkit for Donors on Early Childhood (guidance for donors)
• Stemming Summer Learning Loss in for Low-Income Kids (high impact opportunity)
• High Impact Philanthropy to Improve Teaching Quality (funder investment guide)
• Pathways to Student Success (funder investment guide)
• Patching the Quilt: Early Childhood Policy & Finance for Donors
• Two-Generation Lens: Helping Children by Helping Families
• High Impact Opportunity: Children’s Literacy

POVERTY

• High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn – US (funder investment guide)
• Investing in Women and Girls (high impact opportunity)
• Moving the Poorest Out of Poverty – developing world (high impact opportunity)
• Counseling for low-income, first-time mothers (high impact opportunity)
• Create a Path to a Living Wage for Disconnected Youth (high impact opportunity)

DEMOCRACY AND SOCIETY

• Strengthening Democracy

PHILANTHROPIC & INVESTING STRATEGIES

• Talent for Giving – philanthropic staffing models
• 100 and Change: Bold Ideas for Social Impact
• Program Related Investments
• The XX Factor Guidebook: How to Align Financial Investments to Improve the Lives of Women & Girls

ANNUAL GIVING GUIDE

• 2019 High Impact Giving Guide
• 2018 High Impact Giving Guide
• 2016-17 High Impact Giving Guide
• Year-End Giving Guide 2015
• Year-End Giving Guide 2014

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Overlooked Opportunity for Impact: Children’s Environmental Health (evolving field)
• Environmental Health in Early Childhood (funder investment brief)
• Urban Land Re-use (high impact opportunity)

FOOD & NUTRITION

• Food Funder Compass (funder investment guide)
• Donor Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity: Lessons from Greater Philadelphia (funder investment guide)
• High Impact Opportunity: Emergency Food Provision
• High Impact Opportunity: Care Groups