The Courtney Family Foundation is dedicated to inspiring compassion for and alleviating the suffering of animals and people in our communities. We contribute to organizations who provide support to communities of people and animals who are greatly in need and those that work to create a more sustainable and humane future.
Dalberg Advisors is a mission-driven strategy advisory firm, working to build a more inclusive and sustainable world where all people, everywhere, can reach their fullest potential.
We are known for a focus on global development - and have nearly two decades of experience advising foundations, development finance institutions, and impact investors on a range of issues across the developing world - but are increasingly serving clients to achieve impact in the US. This includes market research and analysis, investment strategy development, opportunity identification, due diligence, and impact management. Aside from our strategy services, we help our clients build new initiatives and thrive in multi-stakeholder settings.
Our talented staff combine experience in top-tier professional services firms and leading academic institutions, with experience in social impact settings. Our diverse staff is representative of the people we serve: 50% women and 50% men; more than 50 nationalities; more than 90 languages spoken; two-thirds of our full-time staff are based in Africa and South Asia. We are a global partnership, with 27 partners and 25 associate partners globally. Our leadership includes a diverse set of backgrounds: https://dalberg.com/who-we-are/our-leadership
Founded in New York in 2001, Dalberg has a global footprint with 22 offices located in Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Geneva, Johannesburg, Kigali, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, Nairobi, New Delhi, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore, and Washington, D.C.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a family foundation guided by the enduring business philosophy and personal values of Lucile and David, who helped found one of the world’s leading technology companies. The Foundation works on the issues our founders cared about most, including improving the lives of children, enabling the creative pursuit of science, advancing reproductive health, and conserving and restoring the earth's natural systems.
Alicia has been a leader in the Global Microenterprise and Impact Investing space for over 15 years. Her work as an international fundraiser and impact advisor ensures social enterprises, nonprofit leaders and impact fund managers have the financial resources, investors, partners and growth strategies they need to start and expand their work. Alicia also supports capital allocators, foundations and impact investors to better understand and more strategically place capital in entrepreneurial ecosystems in underserved communities worldwide. Alicia began her career as a development economist. She worked as a practitioner and researcher across Latin America and Africa examining the role of financial institutions and Microfinance Institutions in poverty eradication. In 2022 she relaunched her consulting practice, DeLia Impact Advisors, to leverage her expertise and networks to advance the revenue generation of impact-first fund managers and social enterprise leaders. DeLia Impact Advisors (Día) connects exceptional impact leaders world-wide to capital, partnerships and networks. Our mission is grounded in the belief that talented people from everywhere in the world should have access to the "trust capital", networks and resources needed to see their vision take flight. DeLia Impact Advisors specializes in creating winning fundraising programs, investor relations, coaching, refining pitches & proposals, grant writing, market positioning, and unlocking funding opportunities and networks. Día works with clients within the following sectors: global economic development, microfinance, financial inclusion, gender lens and racial equity investing, agriculture, inclusive entrepreneurship, small business technical assistance, community development, poverty alleviation, women's economic empowerment and fintech.
DRK Foundation is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. We believe that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional leaders, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place. We find, fund and support exceptional leaders with innovative and highly impactful ideas that have the potential to scale. We provide unrestricted capital, and, most importantly, we provide rigorous, ongoing support by joining the board of directors and partnering with the leader to help build capacity in the organization and scale their impact. Since we started in 2002 we have invested in over 200 organizations, which have impact a combined 220 million lives. With the support of 50 donor partners, we are currently deploying our fourth fund: ~$85 million dedicated to supporting the next generation of 100 social entrepreneurs who will change the world.
We have one goal: to empower under-represented public equity portfolio managers to launch independent firms and at-scale funds. We incubate portfolio managers (who are employees of Expect Equity and have not yet formed their own firms) for three years to enable them to build a track record and develop relationships with institutional allocators with the hope and expectation that they launch independently at the end of the three years.
FJC –A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds (FJC) is a boutique public charity that offers a diverse menu of philanthropic services to a range of stakeholders. FJC is primarily a platform for Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). In addition to DAF accounts, its over 1,000 accounts include fiscal sponsorships, collective giving accounts, and many other philanthropic vehicles that enable nonprofit organizations and their supporters to achieve their missions. FJC acts as a scaled platform that allows its account holders to focus on mission, rather than be burdened with the details of operations and compliance. Our roles as sponsors of DAFs and fiscal sponsorship organizations situates us as an intermediary between the financial services sector and the nonprofit sector.
FEG's mission is to "Empower our clients to achieve their goals through superior investment performance, objective insights, and research". We are an independently-owned advisory firm that provides investment consulting, outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO), and research services to predominantly institutional clients, such as university endowments, private and public foundations, community foundations, religious organizations, and healthcare institutions. FEG developed the Responsive Investing Solutions Exchange (RISE), as a partnership with our clients to provide investors seeking both financial and social gains the opportunity to align their portfolios with their own unique goals.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation supports arts, education, environment, informed communities, and poetry to connect communities and influence social change to achieve an equitable New Jersey.
We provide accessible equitable evaluation that enables you to create measurable and sustainable transformative social impact. We work with investors who want to make a positive social impact on the world in addition to making a financial return on their investment. Whether you plan to build your investment thesis, design an equitable screening process, conduct culturally responsive due diligence, or measure social impact post-investment, we can help you apply an equity lens to your investment.
