By: Gwendolyn Lim, Pritha Venkatachalam, Jeffrey Bradach, Xueling Lee, Denise Chew, Roger Thompson
Against a backdrop of accelerating wealth creation and unmet needs, The Bridgespan Group, with financial support from the Institute of Philanthropy, embarked on a research project to identify the 20 largest global and Asian institutional philanthropies and to spotlight the practices they employ to produce lasting results. Shared practices, however, leave room for distinct differences in implementation, as we show in this report comparing global and Asian philanthropies.
A companion report, High-Impact Philanthropy: Five Practices That Lead to Lasting Change, describes frequently used practices that achieve sustainable progress on social and environmental issues. The report shows how these high-impact practices are deployed in different contexts in Asia and elsewhere. Our goal with this research is to inspire institutional philanthropies, especially in Asia, to give better, to give faster, and to give more, to meet the urgency and scale of social and environmental needs.
