Gabriel Kasper

Gabriel Kasper is a Managing Director with Monitor Institute by Deloitte, where he leads the team’s philanthropy practice in conjunction with Deloitte Consulting LLP. He has spent nearly three decades as a futurist, exploring the leading edge of philanthropic practice, and as a strategic advisor to many of the nation’s largest and most innovative funders.

He is an award-winning writer about the future of philanthropy and has authored the Monitor Institute by Deloitte publications What's Next for Philanthropy in the 2020s and What’s Next for Community Philanthropy, as well as popular Stanford Social Innovation Review cover stories on “The Re-Emerging Art of Funding Innovation” and “Working Wikily: Social Change with a Network Mindset.” He has also led and co-authored numerous other Monitor Institute research studies, including: What’s Inside the House: Is Org Design Derailing Your Foundation’s Strategy?, Act Now: Future Scenarios and the Case for Equitable Climate Action, BIPOC Organizations and the Hamster Wheel of Philanthropy, An Event or An Era: Resources for Social Sector Decision-Making in the Context of COVID-19, What’s Next for Philanthropy, Reimagining Measurement, Intentional Innovation, and On the Brink of New Promise: The Future of U.S. Community Foundations. 

Prior to joining Monitor Institute by Deloitte, Gabriel served as a program officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where he managed the Foundation’s philanthropy portfolio, and as a program manager at the Berkeley Community Fund. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Master of City Planning from U.C. Berkeley.