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Deloitte's Global Center for Excellence in Philanthropy
Individuals want to drive meaningful change. Businesses want to redefine purpose beyond profit. Nonprofits want to streamline processes and increase impact. With an experienced guide, they can set and follow a strategic action plan while navigating the complex world of state, federal, and international tax law.
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What we offer
We work with foundations, other nonprofits, donors, and intermediaries to stay on the leading edge of change. We help them navigate the rapidly shifting compliance landscape inside and outside of philanthropy. We also work with innovators outside traditional philanthropic circles to build innovative solutions, develop new models, create new tools, and advance creative uses of financing for social change.
Adapting to new realities:
- Bringing leading practices in reporting, compliance, and responding to increased scrutiny.
- Working with individual foundations to create effective and adaptive strategies that help them get on their front foot in a rapidly changing community and global context
- Modernizing organizational designs to create more nimble institutions through new structures, processes, and internal systems
- Designing new programs and initiatives from the ground up in a way that combines rigorous data-based decision-making with an inclusive process that builds internal alignment
Issue to impact: Launching impact investing
The issue
A group of institutions led by the Rockefeller Foundation set out to achieve the ambitious goal of inventing ways to increase the private capital being used to address the world’s societal challenges. Rockefeller had brought together some of the early pioneers in the space, who had named this emerging field “impact investing.” However, the infrastructure was lacking for the group to find its voice and take action together, and it was not clear how this small group could turn into a meaningful industry when it lacked the infrastructure that existed in mainstream finance.
Our impact
We supported the Rockefeller Foundation as it brought together a collection of unusual collaborators, including traditional investors, early impact investors, foundations, and entrepreneurs who shared an interest in scaling up this nascent set of practices. Together these collaborators formed a new community committed to sharing leading practices through sustained dialogue and reports such as Investing for social & environmental impact. Monitor Institute by Deloitte then helped the collaborators form a new nonprofit, the Global Impact Investing Network. The report and the nonprofit together are now widely credited with catalyzing significant new private capital to support the burgeoning field of impact investing, a $77+ billion marketplace that Deloitte is now actively engaged in scaling up.
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