Advisory | Impact | Investment
Every decision we make as a firm to support the stakeholders we serve is grounded in principles around equity and inclusion. While Moore Philanthropy serves the needs of families from all walks of life, we have an intentional and demonstrated commitment to serving the African Diaspora and their families and building the wealth and influence of communities of color.
Whether philanthropy is new to your family or you’ve been actively giving for years, we can help you create the space for new conversations or simply revisit mission and vision to ensure your current strategy and giving are aligned. We will help you define success for you and your family, and ensure that your resources are being actively and aggressively engaged in helping to make change.
Yvonne L. Moore, Founder & Managing Director
Yvonne L. Moore is the Founder and Managing Director at Moore Philanthropy and it’s newly launched exempt arm, Moore Impact. She brings over 25 years of experience in the government, civil society, and philanthropic sectors to her work in providing strategic and tailored philanthropic advisement and solutions to families, individuals and institutions.
Long before she began her work with foundations, our Founder and Managing Director, Yvonne Moore, had learned that “love of humankind” means more in action than it does in etymology. She grew up being shaped by the ways Black women in her family showed up in their communities and took in how they grounded their everyday philanthropy in an ethic of care and shared responsibility.
Moore Impact receives investment to scale its impact as one of the only Black-founded and woman-led philanthropic intermediaries in the United States, with support from Pivotal Ventures, a Melinda French Gates company.
Moore Impact recently partnered with Warner Music Group and the Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund (SJF) to invest $100 million in organizations working to build more equitable communities and create real change in the lives of historically underserved and marginalized people, with heightened attention to Black communities.
When considering racial equity in impact and philanthropic investment spaces we must examine both who is managing the investment of assets for people and institutions of wealth, as well as who is managing the deployment of those assets.
According to UNICEF and Save the Children, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic could thrust at least 86 million more children from lower and middle-income countries into household poverty by the end of 2020.
When I launched Moore Philanthropy in 2015 I made a commitment to highlighting investments made by donors in the African Diaspora, lifting up the demonstrated proof that we are investors and not only recipients.