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Your Values in Action

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Reimagining Giving Together

Our community shares ideas and funds to magnify its impact beyond the sum of its parts. Here’s how our donors are making history by joining us to reimagine giving:

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Raising the Bar

10% Impact Pledge

We are raising the bar by encouraging donors to maximize their annual giving. Typical donor advised fund providers do not have annual payout requirements for their funds, resulting in a growth in assets, but less grantmaking impact. We encourage all of our donors to make annual grants of 10% of the fund size, doubling the level of “payout” required by private foundations.

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Wired for Change

Moving Resources to the Frontlines

We wired our systems to move resources nimbly and efficiently to the frontlines of social change including:

5 day grants processing: We process most grants within 5 business days.
ACH payments: We offer the option of electronic grant payments.

Trust-based Philanthropy

Moving at the Speed of Trust*

Philanthropy is most impactful with greater transparency, less burdensome application processes, and grants that allow organizations to apply resources where they see the most vital need. Our commitment to trust-based philanthropy includes:

JustFund: With our proposal management partner JustFund, more than 1,000 organizations use a straightforward application that is utilized by hundreds of funders.
Default to General Support: Our on-line grants management portal defaults to General Support.

* Adrienne Maree Brown, activist & author

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Defunding Hate

Hate is Not Charitable

We have taken a stand against the twisted use of charitable funds to support organizations that foment hatred. Between 2014 and 2017 DAFs contributed nearly $11 million to 34 organizations that the Southern Poverty Law Center considers to be hate groups. As leaders of the Hate Is Not Charitable movement, we have committed to reject donor recommendations to organizations engaged in hateful activities, and along with our supporters, demand policies to ensure charitable resources promote the public good.

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Strengthening Connections with Grantees

JustFund

Our partnership with JustFund easily connects you with critical projects nationwide. Get direct access to non-profits and their proposals, as well as to a community where funding colleagues share valuable insights that can help you make decisions.

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For me, the Amalgamated Foundation has been much more than a donor-advised fund provider. They have been a full-spectrum partner in realizing and expanding the vision of my philanthropy, my work as a filmmaker, and my own non-profit initiatives.

Jess Jacobs Filmmaker and Philanthropist

We are proud to join the community of individuals and organizations that the Amalgamated Foundation is bringing together to advance social change.

Anne H. Hess & Craig Kaplan

First and foremost, I consider myself an activist and entrepreneur. The Amalgamated Foundation is like a tool box for my emerging work as a grantmaker.

Eric Shih, Spendrise

When we set up a Charitable Remainder Trust we needed a beneficiary that could support a range of interests -- democracy, health care access, and global LGBTQI human rights. Our Advance Change Fund at Amalgamated will be a trusted steward of the Trust and our entire estate.

Peter McAweeney, Estate Planning Attorney and Tod Hill, Philanthropy Consultant

As chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, I work to confront the destabilizing concentration of wealth and power in America. Given our shared commitment and values, the Amalgamated Foundation is an ideal home for my philanthropy.

Morris Pearl Chair, Patriotic Millionaires - Photo by Beatrice Moritz

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