In 2018, the Collective Giving Research Group released the second in a series of three reports. “Giving Circle Membership: How Collective Giving Impacts Donors” looks at how giving circle participation influences members and explores how established members differ from new ones.
In this second report of our annual series, experts and thought leaders from the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy have examined changes in the field and identified 11 trends in philanthropy that we expect to see impacting our sector in 2018.
This first report of a three-part series investigates the current scope and scale of collective giving groups in the United States to help us understand their impact on donor giving and civic engagement.
To help explore and understand the trends and challenges that inform our work, we have examined 11 trends we expect to see both forming and challenging the work of philanthropy in 2017 and beyond.
This 2015 brief from Joyce White offers tips for new grantmakers to help ground them in the philanthropic sector.
This brief explores the informal learning paths grantmakers take in the field as well as ways foundation leaders can provide an orientation to the field in place of an established pathway.
This first-of-its-kind research examines the next generation of major donors and studies this crucial group directly, rather than summarizing what others think about them.
Based on new analysis of data collected for “Next Gen Donors: Respecting Legacy, Revolutionizing Philanthropy,” this report examines the ways in which high-capacity, Jewish next gen donors think about and experience philanthropy.
The Grand Rapids Juvenile Offense Index report provides a baseline and seven-year trend analysis of juvenile offenses and incidents in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
This report seeks to identify and describe state-of-the-art approaches to valuing social returns on social investments, to review the organizational challenges to implementing an SROI measurement process, and to examine in detail organizations in the Netherlands and the U.S. that have attempted to use SROI measurements.