Social Impact
The Social Impact of Philanthropy
Social impact can be seen as the ability of nonprofit organizations to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society’s challenges and opportunities.
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The Bridgespan Group
http://www.bridgespangroup.org/
The Bridgespan Group is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization applying leading-edge management strategies, tools and talent to help other nonprofits and foundations achieve greater social impact.
Foundation Strategy Group
http://www.foundationstrategy.com/
FSG Social Impact Advisors is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating social progress by advancing the practice of philanthropy and corporate social responsibility in three ways: advice, ideas, action.
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
GEO encourages and assists grantmakers as they adopt and maintain practices that increase their organizational effectiveness and enhance their ability to achieve their goals and mission. GEO identifies and highlights grantmaking practices that improve nonprofit performance.
Center for Effective Philanthropy
http://www.effectivephilanthropy.com
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization focused on the development of comparative data to enable higher-performing foundations. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CEP’s mission is to provide management and governance tools to define, assess, and improve overall foundation performance.
Future of Philanthropy
http://www.futureofphilanthropy.org/
Gifts of money, time and knowledge help shape the future of us all. But there have been very few explorations of the future of philanthropy itself. Our project was launched in 2000, as a new century began, to fill this gap.
This project was dedicated to understanding the whole spectrum of philanthropic giving, rejecting the once-neat distinction between foundations and other giving that is not “organized.”
The final report can be found on the website or in pdf form.