Building Impact
Project Title
As a final grant for the Joyful Impact Accelerator project
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
Since 2012 Building Impact has worked with social entrepreneurs, forward-thinking philanthropists, and change agents to catalyze systemic change around the most pressing social issues. Advisors Academy, piloted in September 2021, is a companion program to the Joyful Impact Accelerator, previously supported by the Corporation. The Advisor Academy brings together a diverse, visionary group of advisors who work directly with individual and institutional donors. The goals of the program are two-fold. First, enhance the skills, capacity, and trust-based connections among existing philanthropy advisors, helping them better link their donors with the most promising opportunities for impact in their chosen fields of focus. Second, to diversify and deepen the ranks of those advising high-capacity donors, focusing particularly on social entrepreneurs with proximity to the communities with which donors seek to engage. With our continued support, Building Impact will expand the Advisor Academy to serve, at minimum, ten additional philanthropy advisors in the second half of 2022.
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Project Title
For support of the Joyful Impact Accelerator project
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Since 2102 Building Impact has worked with social entrepreneurs, forward-thinking philanthropists, and change agents to catalyze systemic change around the most pressing social issues. The Joyful Impact Accelerator for funders was born out of both inspiration and frustration with philanthropy as a vehicle for transformative social change at this pivotal time for the field. The tension between the shortcomings of philanthropy and the sense of calling felt by many working in the field seems more pressing than ever in the last year, between the pandemic, the beginnings of a reckoning with systemic racism, increasing challenges of hyper-polarization, and threats to democracy. The Joyful Impact Accelerator is an opportunity for participants to join with fellow funders in a journey of personal and professional growth. It is offered to a carefully curated group of eight visionary, senior leaders in philanthropy. The program is customized to each participant’s particular leadership journey and interests; it also contains a core of shared learning around particular skills and techniques as well as a unifying peer-based experience in the form of a mastermind group.