Become a member. Elevate your impact. Find your people.
By applying to Forward Global, you can get what you need to move faster, think smarter, and make a bigger impact. Whether you’re refining your giving strategy, exploring new issues, or seeking connection with peers who get it, our membership is designed around you.
With access to three decades of expertise, curated experiences, and a global network of values-aligned funders, you can find the tools, insights, and relationships to turn your vision into action.
Forward Global is a platform for people ready to move from intention to impact.
EDUCATION
Our donor education programmes help members maximise their impact. Through in-person and virtual programmes, you can stay informed and ahead of the conversation:
Lifelong Learning: Interactive skills-based training deepens expertise in advocacy, impact investing, systems change, partnership-building and more
Certified programmes: Our signature offerings help members develop personal impact strategies that use their time, talent, treasure and networks to make the greatest impact
Global Insights: Curated experts and peer leaders unpack trends, including artificial intelligence, political dynamics, social justice movements, and spend down strategies
COMMUNITY
Being and acting in Community makes us stronger, smarter, and more effective in creating the change we seek. Members access a global network of committed changemakers and a custom platform of proprietary, ever-evolving programmes and offerings:
Curated Virtual and In-person Events: Ranging from intimate dinners to conference meet-ups, we offer spaces for safe, brave peer conversations about challenges related to money, family, and impact
Global Summit: Our flagship event annually convenes our Community for inspiration, collaboration, and action
Global Journeys: These immersive, experiential trips are where members engage with local communities advancing human rights, gender equity, economic development, and more in the face of issues ranging from climate change to global migration
Member Portal: Our private, community-centered app makes it easy to find and connect with other members in real time, ask questions, share opportunities and insights, and access our Resource Library
IMPACT
We organize members around the world’s most pressing challenges related to Climate Change, AI, Social Inequity, Mental Health and Well-being, Democracy and Human Rights, and the Transition of Wealth. In response, our members deploy $1B each year.
But it’s not just about the funds—it’s about the impact our members make with their unique assets. Our members take action through:
Our fiscal sponsorship service enables members to launch projects within weeks while avoiding the administrative and regulatory burdens of 501c3 formation and application
Mobilization of more resources, more effectively using our Head (knowledge and strategies), Heart (motivation and relationships) and Hands (skills, connections, actionable opportunities) approach, explained in our Essentials course
Action Labs convene members to learn, problem-solve and work together on common issues including climate, democracy, AI for humanity, mental health and new economy or to connect around a common identity at our Family Table and Next Gen meeting
Activations with Pivotal Ventures, MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network and more give members access to experts and matching grants to amplify impact
Our Certification is designed for members who are early in their impact journey and looking to build a strong foundation in impact principles and practices.
Achieving Certification involves participating in “certification-eligible programmes,” including Studios, which offer deep dives into topics like finding a focus, impact investing, systems change, and due diligence & partnership-building; Journeys, which provide immersive, place-based learning; and our annual Global Summit.
At the center of this is Action Planning, a culminating programme where members clarify their strategies through peer reflection and feedback.
Members who achieve Certification receive a certificate and badge to share with their networks.
Overall, this track offers members a structured and supportive path to refine their impact strategy and practice alongside a community of peers, with guidance from the Forward Global team.
Certification at-a-glance:
1. Take Essentials
2. Participate in at least two Certification-eligible programmes: Studios, Global Summit, Journeys
3. Complete Action Planning
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