Affinity Spaces
As an organization committed to disaggregating ethnicity-level data for our communities and known for providing gathering spaces for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who work in philanthropy, we are excited to announce the kick-off of AAPIP Affinity Spaces!
Our intention with facilitating these spaces is to cultivate a stronger sense of community within the diasporas of the AAPIP network.
AAPIP Sips
We invite you to grab a refreshing cup of cha, tea, or coffee and join us for AAPIP Sips where we host meaningful discussions in an intimate and communal virtual setting!
These interactive, member-informed community spaces are currently only available to AAPIP Members.
AAPIP POWER IN PRACTICE (CEO & Trustee Space)
Regional Chapters
AAPIP serves as the progressive home to AANHPIs in philanthropy at all leadership levels across the sector. Anchored by national staff, AAPIP works across the country through a chapter network as sites of regional activism serving as a bridge between philanthropy and local non-profit organizations.
ABFE Membership
ABFE membership is open to philanthropic professionals, nonprofit leaders, individual donors, and sector partners committed to the advancement of Black communities.
Connecting Leaders Fellowship
This year-long experience is designed to sharpen the skills and strengthen the leadership capacity of individuals committed to assisting Black communities through philanthropy.
PEER COMMUNITY NETWORKS
Black Communities Funders Network
This is a national network of Black fund leaders at community foundations, intermediary organizations, and collaborative funds designed to support Black communities and Black-led organizations.
Umoja Circle
This is a national network of Black foundation CEOs committed to addressing the social and economic inequities impacting Black communities.
Corporate Community of Practice
This is a member network designed to support Black corporate philanthropic professionals as they advocate for Black communities within the context of their roles and positions of influence
Leverage the Trust
A community of Black foundation trustees in California organized to build Black trustee relationships, create learning opportunities, strategize together, and take collective action on issues impacting the Black Community.
Membership
We’re the only organization that does what we do. We exist to serve and empower emerging leaders: the people who are building their roles in philanthropy today, and will one day be running philanthropic institutions and nonprofits.
Chapters
EPIP’s 16 member-led chapters are critical to realizing our collective vision for philanthropy.
From Seattle to New York to Minnesota to San Diego, EPIP chapters create spaces for members to connect with one another, learn the field, and grow their leadership.
Philanthropology
In order to use philanthropy to drive social change, it is crucial that new practitioners in the sector understand its context, history, and challenges. Philanthropology™ is EPIP’s signature curriculum that responds to this need with an in-depth critical study of philanthropy through a social justice lens that includes academic and practitioner perspectives.
Communities of Practice
EPIP’s communities of practice are designed to give all EPIP members – whether or not you are near an EPIP chapter or work for one of our institutional members – the space and support to develop as an inclusive leader. Each community of practice offers identity-based networking, professional development opportunities, and peer coaching – an opportunity to find and build a home base within the philanthropic sector.
The Inclusive Leadership Framework
EPIP envisions a world where people of all identities can live full and prosperous lives, supported by a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and effective philanthropic sector. To realize this vision, we push ourselves and our members to think more critically about our role as philanthropic professionals and work towards becoming inclusive philanthropic professionals who center equity in all facets of our work and interactions with others.
Membership for institutions and individuals
The work of Funders for LGBTQ Issues is made possible by the support of our members. Since 2019, our network of members has grown exponentially, now encompassing over 100 foundations and philanthropic institutions that collectively award more than $1 billion annually, including approximately $258 million specifically devoted to LGBTQ issues.
Queer & Trans People in Emergent Space (QTPIES)
QTPIES is an affinity space crafted for LGBTQ+ professionals in philanthropy hosted by Funders for LGBTQ Issues. QTPIES is for those looking to build community within the sector while showing up authentically and connecting with others who share their identity and values.
Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC)
Grantmakers United for Trans Communities (GUTC), a program of Funders for LGBTQ Issues, aims to inspire a philanthropic culture that is inclusive and supportive of trans people through grantmaking and decision-making.
—- Fellowship Program
—- Pledge
Funding Forward
The biannual gathering of grantmakers committed to LGBTQ issues, next conference will be in 2027.
Members
Whether you’re an individual, leading foundation, corporation, or Latine amigue committed to building a different future for Latines, you’ve landed in the right place.
Líderes Fellowship
The Líderes fellowship cultivates a diverse group of mid-career Latines in philanthropy and nonprofits to promote systemic change through racial healing in a safe environment that supports their ability to advance equity in the field while strengthening their professional development and fostering new relationships.
Annual Conference
For the first time ever, HIP and NAP are co-hosting our annual conference! Join this historic event in the Southwest where we❜ll convene to improve investments in Latine and Indigenous communities.
Transforming Philanthropic Practice
HIP’s goal for Transforming Philanthropic Practice is to act as an intermediary and trusted advisor about resources allocated to Latine-focused initiatives. By working at the intersections where the goals of funders, investors, and Latine communities align, we are collectively in a stronger position to build the authentic power of philanthropy and significantly shift financial and other resources to address the scale and impacts of historic under-funding in Latine communities.
The Racial Equity Advancement and Defense Initiative (READI)
A collaborative effort led by ABFE, in partnership with Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Hispanics in Philanthropy, and Native Americans in Philanthropy. Our main goal is to promote, expand, and defend race-explicit grantmaking and programming, ensuring that equity remains at the forefront of philanthropic efforts across diverse communities.
Membership
Our membership program is centered on Indigenous values and is informed by our relationships and a meaningful connection to the greater work in the sector.
Through our long-standing membership program, we offer a variety of resources and tools—such as webinars, current research, and professional development opportunities—while fostering a of community through exclusive access to virtual events, networking groups, and our gatherings held throughout Indian Country.
Working Groups & Networks
Equity cannot be achieved without Indigenous leadership, knowledge, wisdom, and relationships.
Philanthropy is a system born out of a Western worldview focused on extraction, wealth accumulation, and wielding power. It is a system born out of inequity. For this reason, Indigenous people must be part of the healing necessary to move this sector away from its destructive roots and toward a more equitable future for everyone. Racial equity is inextricable from our mission.
Job Board
Native Americans in Philanthropy is dedicated to increasing and nurturing Indigenous representation in the philanthropic sector.
Philanthropy Forward
Philanthropy Forward is a CEO fellowship community for visionary leaders who center racial and gender justice and community power building to disrupt and transform the future of philanthropy.
Values Aligned Investment Praxis Group
NFG’s Values Aligned Investment Praxis Group provides a dedicated space for foundation CEOs and Presidents to learn and experiment with a group of trusted peers who aim to shift their endowment investments into greater alignment with their institutional missions. An outgrowth of the Philanthropy Forward alumni network, the community of practice is focused on social movement aligned investing to support groups building community power.
Do Better: Grantmaking Principles and Practices Toward Community Accountability
Principles and practices that center community accountability should be part of philanthropy’s core purpose. Considering the history of philanthropy, we know that philanthropy does not own the resources it contains, and we must fully support community-identified priorities and community-led change. This resource was adapted from content from an NFG hosted webinar titled “Do Better: Grantmaking Practices Toward Community Accountability” to share our learnings and reflections.
Rooted: NFG Political Education Series
In our programming, we often hear movement leaders repeat the same refrain: “Fund us like you want us to win, cut the check and get out of the way, give multi-year general operating grants, offer more flexibility, and take the time to build relationships.”
However, we still see that BIPOC-led community organizing is undervalued and underfunded. For example, many of the temporary funds for Black-led, racial justice work no longer exist. What does it look like to do grantmaking differently, and support community organizing for the long term? Join us to learn more about principles and philanthropic practices funders can integrate and utilize to be in solidarity with and accountable to movement.
National Convening
The 2025 National Convening: Seeding (and Ceding) Transformational Power will be held in Nashville, Tennessee the week of July 15-17, 2025! As the NFG community returns to the South, we are building on six years of work in the state beginning in 2019 when Tennessee became one of Amplify Fund’s eight places.
Racial Capitalism Community of Practice
NFG’s Funders for a Just Economy (FJE) program is hosting a Racial Capitalism Community of Practice (CoP) open to funder members. Through this CoP, funder participants will explore how we can deepen our grantmaking efforts to advance justice, incorporate anti-racist practices in philanthropy, and partner with movement leaders in the creation of an inclusive economy.
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens
The new Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practical Guide, written by PRE Senior Fellow Rinku Sen and Executive Director Lori Villarosa with contributions from Maggie Potapchuk, Lisa McGill, and Makani Themba, provides grantmakers with reflections, frameworks and tools built from the direct experience of activists and funders for advancing racial justice in any philanthropic setting.
Membership
Together we are the largest funding alliance in the world dedicated to gender equality and justice.
When you join WFN, you become part of a global community of over 130 grantmakers, nonprofit organizations, corporations, and individuals who invest more than $1.4 billion annually to advance the economic security, education, leadership, and health and well-being of marginalized genders across the globe.
Feminist Funded
WFN’s Feminist Funded biennial is a global conference powered by local action and ideas. Since 1985 philanthropic, public, private, and NGO leaders who move resources have come together every two years for inspiration, connection, and acceleration of solutions that create a more just, equitable, and safer world for all.
Our Vision
CHANGE Philanthropy holds a vision of transforming and challenging philanthropic culture to advance equity, benefit all communities, and ignite positive social change.
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