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These stories of innovation demonstrate how our Community mobilizes to ensure a world that works for all people and the planet. Our members emulate what is possible when leaders come from a place of humility and enoughness, understand root causes, challenge the status quo, and work in Community.

Honoring 30 Years of Social Impact

Stories of Innovation

Active Philanthropy & Forward Global Member

Expanding the Funder Playbook: Where Climate and Mental Health Converge

A mental health primer commissioned by a Forward Global Member analyzes how mental health and…

Active Philanthropy & Forward Global Member

Expanding the Funder Playbook: Where Climate and Mental Health Converge

A mental health primer commissioned by a Forward Global Member analyzes how mental health and climate change intersect.
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Maura O’Neill

Changing What’s Possible

At Forward Global, Maura has found peers with whom her work resonates. For Maura, our…

Maura O’Neill

Changing What’s Possible

At Forward Global, Maura has found peers with whom her work resonates. For Maura, our Community is a space where solving systemic problems isn’t a side conversation, but the point.
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Randall Kempner

Changing the Climate Philanthropy Equation

Randall is the Executive Director of the Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition, a network of funders…

Randall Kempner

Changing the Climate Philanthropy Equation

Randall is the Executive Director of the Climate Philanthropy Catalyst Coalition, a network of funders and advisors. His mission is ambitious yet specific: triple U.S.-based climate philanthropy within five years by connecting people, data, and ideas across the field.
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Russ Hall

The Architecture of Purposeful Philanthropy

Russ Hall has spent more than two decades helping philanthropy do what it promises: serve.

Russ Hall

The Architecture of Purposeful Philanthropy

Russ Hall has spent more than two decades helping philanthropy do what it promises: serve.
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Edgar Villanueva

Philanthropy’s Healer Uses Money as Medicine

Edgar’s message is deeply spiritual, yet also grounded in painful reality. “Money has been used…

Edgar Villanueva

Philanthropy’s Healer Uses Money as Medicine

Edgar’s message is deeply spiritual, yet also grounded in painful reality. “Money has been used to dominate and divide,” he says. “We have a choice to use it differently—to respond to the trauma of colonization, to heal.”
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Zita Cobb

Leading the Place-Based Economics Movement

An entrepreneur by trade but a deeply rooted community member at heart, Zita ultimately returned…

Zita Cobb

Leading the Place-Based Economics Movement

An entrepreneur by trade but a deeply rooted community member at heart, Zita ultimately returned to her hometown to start the social enterprise Shorefast and open the Fogo Island Inn, a luxury hotel that has transformed the fishing village into a thriving community for residents and visitors alike.
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This collective makes it possible to create so much more impact than our individual limitations would dictate.
— Forward Global Member

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