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Strategic Initiatives

We make your philanthropy return lasting Life Change through our five step process:

1. Plan and Counsel

  • Our advisors work with you to identify your passion, clarify your goals and plan your giving strategy
  • Our sector teams produce research on trends, innovative solutions and best practices in specific humanitarian areas

2. Identify

  • We customize your giving portfolio to the criteria you set
  • Our regional teams uncover effective grass-roots projects
  • We perform landscape and granting strategy studies for larger scale Initiatives

3. Qualify

  • We perform rigorous due diligence to establish the suitability and capability of each implementer
  • We address the need, describe the program and provide a detailed analysis of expected outcomes and risk
  • We organize implementer conferences to align local partners in large-scale Initiatives

4. Fund and monitor

  • We transfer funds and work begins
  • We provide tax deduction information where appropriate
  • We closely monitor each project and provide reports

5. Evaluate

  • Our research analysts confirm actual project outcomes against projections
  • We analyze and catalog lessons learned and integrate them into our best practices