Propel Philanthropy

Funding Approaches Often Overlooked

We propel philanthropy by helping funders identify leveraged, high-impact, and far-reaching opportunities that traditional — and even progressive — approaches often overlook.

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Small Grants Can Drive Big Results

There is a common misconception that it takes large grants to achieve exceptionally far-reaching impact. Not necessarily. There are times when small grants can leverage a sizable impact mulitplier effect. Propel Philanthropy has collected stories where small grants have achieved impressive results.

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Why Support Social Impact Infrastructure Organizations?

Social impact infrastructure organizations (SIIOs) produce exceptionally far-reaching impact because they're the accelerators, connectors, conveners, educators, platforms, and trainers that enable the rest of us to effectively create change. Some SIIOs help their funding members deploy billions of dollars more effectively. Others increase social impact investments, accelerate innovations, improve nonprofit capacities, or partner across sectors to scale solutions. Our growing directory showcases some of these high-potential social impact infrastructure organizations worldwide.

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Outstanding Examples of Champion Social Sector Funders

Consider the visionary funders who supported the Foundation Directory, which has helped countless nonprofits survive and thrive since 1960. Imagine the impact achieved by the funders behind TechSoup — an organization now providing support to hundreds of thousands of organizations. What about the European Foundation Centre (now Philea), whose members accelerate the social sector in countries across the continent?

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SIIOs are the connectors, conveners, accelerators, trainers, educators, researchers, and platforms that enable the rest of us to effectively impact change. Some SIIOs help donors give away billions of dollars more effectively. Some increase social impact investments, accelerate innovations, improve the capacities of nonprofit and civil society organizations, partner with governments and more.

To understand these organizations better, read our first-of-its-kind report, Illuminating the Invisible. Also visit our growing Directory page that showcases social impact infrastructure organizations worldwide.

Our Funder-to-Funder Infrastructure Group

We are delighted to report attendance from foundations large and small. We are a diverse group of institutional and private funders. We focus on building accelerating social sector infrastructure and exploring exceptional far-reaching opportunities.

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Produce Media

To accelerate the social sector, we need more articles to disseminate through our network. Consider using your talents to write articles, blog posts, or create videos to make this approach to giving better known and more practiced. If you are not a writer or video maker, consider engaging in research to fuel the work of others.

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