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Environment and Climate Change Giving Trends 2025
Full text linkThe report presents a comprehensive analysis of global and Australian trends in philanthropic giving to climate change and environment, highlighting the opportunities and challenges faced in addressing the urgent and interconnected climate and nature crises. The philanthropic sector has seen increased levels of environmental giving inrecent years, driven by a growing awareness of the need for transformative action. This is reflected in both global and local trends, with donors demonstrating a stronger commitment to funding an equitable and sustainable future
Philanthropy and Equality : A framework for sharing power and addressing inequalities
Full text linkAcross the Philea network, many philanthropic organisations are already engaging with issues of equality, power, justice and inclusion in thoughtful and meaningful ways. This framework builds on those efforts, offering a shared space for reflection, alignment and collective progress.Rather than presenting a single, definitive or prescriptive stance, the framework provides a broad and flexible lens on the relationship between philanthropy and equality. It highlights how inequality is deeply connected to power structures, climate justice, democratic practice, and how it is deeply entangled with philanthropy's history, funding models, operating practices and legitimacy. Though the framework focuses on equality, some elements within it centre the concept of equity.The framework invites philanthropic organisations at different stages of this journey to explore four key areas of practice: internal practices, relational approaches, redistribution of capital, and systems thinking
Proven Pathways to Resilience: Organizational Investments That Drive Transformation
Full text linkWomen's funds, particularly national women's funds in the Global South, are a main source of funding for grassroots gender justice movements. However, they are chronically underfunded— a reality that hinders progress in advancing gender justice, especially in a world facing various polycrises. Have you wondered what happens when women's funds are resilient? And what happens when power is shared in grantmaking? We've documented these developments and invite you to explore these vital questions in our report on resilience.What happens when feminist funds are trusted to invest in themselves? Proven Pathways to Resilience explores the powerful results of resourcing organizational infrastructure across 44 women's funds.This second and final report from Fenomenal Funds builds on Reimagining Power to Build Resilience, offering new data and deeper insights into how adaptability, collaboration, and care strengthen movements. It distills what worked, why it mattered, and how funders can join in.As crises accelerate, this report offers a timely and practical roadmap for transformative funding grounded in feminist values
The Transformative Power of Microgrant Programs: The case for philanthropy to prioritize the enrichment gap
Full text linkClosing the enrichment gap - the disparity in out-of-school learning participation between wealthy children and their low-income peers - is essential to transforming the life outcomes of marginalized youth. Children spend the majority of their waking hours outside of school, and enrichment programs are known to spark a passion for learning that contributes to academic success and personal development (Benson & Scales, 2009). Directto-family education microgrants, which empower families to choose experiences that align with their children's unique interests and needs, offer the most effective way to close this gap.This brief argues that providing funding directly to families is not only a practical solution but a transformative one. It enables families to access highquality learning experiences, supports community-based providers, and lays the groundwork for scalable, sustainable public policies. Successful programs run by Outschool.org, RESCHOOL, and several states demonstrate that philanthropy can drive demand for microgrants and inspire elected officials to establish publicly funded, large-scale initiatives. The enrichment gap is not merely a matter of access; it's a matter of equity, social mobility, and economic prosperity.Successful programs run by Outschool.org, RESCHOOL, and several states demonstrate that philanthropy can drive demand for microgrants and inspire elected officials to establish publicly funded, large-scale initiatives. Both Outschool.org and RESCHOOL ran smaller-scale, privately-funded programs that laid the groundwork for the creation of policies and support for publiclyfunded programs reaching tens of thousands of learners
The Ford Foundation's Evolving Human Rights Approach to Latin America: The Mexican Window
Full text linkThis report analyzes the Ford Foundation's evolving support for human rights in Mexico and Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s. It focuses on the Foundation's funding of the Mexican Academy of Human Rights (AMDH), an organization that would become instrumental in Mexican public life, striving to create a common sense of human rights in the country. Using Ford Foundation records, as well as documentation produced by the AMDH that is kept in different Mexican archives, this report approaches the Ford Foundation's work in Latin America, its work in human rights, and the special place that Mexico occupied in this panorama. At the same time, it is a first approach to understanding the characteristics and work of the Mexican Academy of Human Rights
Supporting Spaces of Joy, Belonging, and Leadership for LGBTQ+ Youth: Learnings from How the Washington Youth Initiative Invested in the LGBTQ+ Youth-Serving Ecosystem in Washington State
Full text linkThis report provides a comprehensive analysis of the findings and lessons learned from a groundbreaking two-year pilot program funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. This initiative, designed to expand resources and capacity for LGBTQ+ youth-serving organizations in Washington, has demonstrated the transformative impact of targeted investment in these communities, especially those led by Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) and those serving rural areas.Over the two-year program, the initiative awarded over $1.6 million in flexible funding to 20 organizations, reaching more than 1,940 LGBTQ+ youth with leadership development opportunities and strengthening the capacity of youth-serving organizations across Washington State.Key findings from the report include:Persistent disparities:Â LGBTQ+ youth, particularly BIPOC and trans youth, face structural and systemic barriers that limit access to essential resources like housing, mental health care, and leadership opportunities.The power of community-driven solutions:Â Youth emphasized the need for spaces that foster radical joy, connectedness, and belonging, underscoring the importance of by-and-for LGBTQ+ programming.Urgency for systemic change:Â The ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ backlash requires funders to invest in organizations that address systemic inequities while reducing burnout among staff and promoting sustainable practices.The report also outlines recommendations for the philanthropic sector, urging funders to increase the impact of grant awards by providing multi-year, general operating support, simplifying application processes, and incorporating feedback from grantees and LGBTQ+ youth
Pan African Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Ecosystem Research Report
Full text linkThis report is the outcome of a study commissioned by the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) and executed by Development Dynamics (DD) from April 2025 to June 2025, with funding from WINGS through #LiftUpPhilanthropy Fund. It summarises key insights on philanthropy support ecosystems, with a particular focus on multi-stakeholder partnerships spanning Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal
Student Success and Retention: Whatâs Educational Development Got to Do With It?
Full text linkWhen faculty adapt their teaching and learning methods to match student needs, students succeed. Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) guide and support faculty to meet the evolving student needs. Recognizing that pedagogical changes can be difficult, CTLs approach this work through relationship-rich interactions with instructors, staff and peers
Well-Adjusted?: Robert Havighurst and the Study of Old Age
Full text linkThis report shows how Robert Havighurst and his colleagues at the University of Chicago approached the study of old age in the 1940s, by describing the intellectual milieu in which these researchers worked. Havighurst's earlier biography included contributions to education and developmental psychology. These disciplines provided both the methodological basis for Havighurst's later work on old age, as well as the institutional and professional connections in which he remained throughout his career. His most important collaborator, Ernest Burgess, provided a theory of analyzing and predicting human behavior that formed the basis for both researchers' later work on social adjustment in old age. The immediate context for their turn to old age research was World War II, which brought many older people temporarily out of retirement to meet wartime labor demands, a situation that raised questions about what role elderly people would play in the postwar social order. Rather than focus on the economics of old-age poverty, as prewar economists had, or aging as a biological process, as most contemporary gerontologists did, Havighurst and his colleagues' backgrounds in psychology and sociology led them to view old age as a novel social role to which aging people had to adjust