Lever for Change

📢 We're so excited to announce that today, ENLIGHT FOUNDATION, The Patchwork Collective, and Lever for Change have launched the Emerging Climate Champions Award! ✨ 🌱 This $25 million open call will provide flexible multiyear gifts of $1 million each to youth-led organizations advancing climate solutions across the globe. 💸 🌎 We welcome organizations from around the globe working across a full spectrum of climate issues and solutions. 💚 Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/gA4VPfhE #EmergingClimateChampionsAward #YouthClimateAction #NextGenLeaders #YouthLedChange #ClimateSolutions

Most nonprofits are heavily dependent on unreliable, short-term, and project-based funding. And this limits the impact they can achieve. It's time to explore 'big bets' in philanthropy.   Cecilia Conrad, Ph.D., CEO of Lever for Change, shares why larger-scale, longer-term, and flexible funding is needed now: https://lnkd.in/e9TQ8Qyu 

🌱 The Emerging Climate Champions Awards is inviting evaluators who know that climate expertise comes from the classroom, the neighborhood, or the council meeting. We are seeking a global pool of evaluators: local leaders, educators, Indigenous communities, frontline workers, and all those building solutions where textbooks end. 🌏 🤝 Your lived experience + our young applicants = real change. Join us. Evaluator Interest Form: https://lnkd.in/gpsSURRc

📰 ICYMI! 🔍 Read our June Newsletter to see what Lever for Change has been up to, including: 🌱 News about open calls, including the launch of the Emerging Climate Champions Award 📑 Our new report on the importance of providing nonprofits with durable capital 🤝 The new Swift Stabilization Fund for organizations in our Bold Solutions Network ⭐ Media profiles on Lever for Change leadership https://lnkd.in/gvcy4U3m

🌈 Help us find climate champions working across the full spectrum of climate work! We're looking for youth-led organizations around the world focused on: 📚 education 🌐 movement building 🔬 science/technology 🤝 community resilience 🌳 conservation 📢 advocacy 🌱 sustainable agriculture 🚨 disaster preparedness ❇️ other important climate work If you know any organizations that would make great applicants, be sure to share the Emerging Climate Champions Open call with them! https://lnkd.in/gCdNcycf

What can open call applicants expect? 🔵 A level playing field 🔵 Clarity and transparency from the start 🔵 Smart, supportive design 🔵 Evaluation and feedback for all applicants 🔵 Continual process refinement 🩵 We’re committed to creating a process that offers value to all applicants, whether or not they ultimately receive funding. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gSyZEneS

💬 "This is not the time for timid philanthropy. Our research and experience demonstrate that big bets can do a world of good, particularly when they deliver durable capital." 💪 🫶 Big thanks to Candid for this piece highlighting our seven types of durable capital designed to build organizational resilience. Read here: https://lnkd.in/gVRp6fwB

📢 Calling on climate champions around the world! We are here to support the leaders of tomorrow TODAY. 🫶 🌱 The Emerging Climate Champions Award is an open call for those leading today—whether you're working in movement building, education and technology, or climate justice. No need to wait for a seat at the table: register to apply and carve out your own! 🌏 Organizations from all around the world are encouraged to apply, including those from historically under-resourced and/or under-represented communities. Please help us share this open call with those groups in your own networks—talent is everywhere; opportunity isn't. 💚 Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/gCdNcycf

So grateful to Reid Hoffman and The Chronicle of Philanthropy for this opportunity to talk about our work on The Trust in American Institutions Challenge as the first episode in their new podcast, The Commons in Conversation. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gbXVT-xD

💡When foundation leaders want to put a stake in the ground on the issues that matter most, they don't just need grant recipients, they need the right kind of innovation. 🔎 Our open call model is designed to connect donors with leaders and organizations taking unconventional approaches that can actually move the needle on creating systematic change in our communities. 🤝 Ready to invite critical innovation into your giving strategy? Let's talk about what's possible when you partner with people who understand both your constraints and your ambitions. https://lnkd.in/g-iQKmGZ 🙏 Special thank you to Ciciley (CC) Moore, MBA of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for her testimonial. #PhilanthropyInnovation #StrategicGiving #LeverForChange