We believe that sustainable impact comes from understanding and working in connection and collaboration with the communities directly impacted by some of the world’s most intractable problems. We also understand that today’s challenges require a flexibility on the part of the donor to find solutions that work in various environments.
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, Principal Advisor
With over 20 years of experience in the government, civil society, and philanthropic sectors, Yvonne brings a wealth of practical knowledge to the creation and refinement of philanthropic goals for her clients, as well as a commitment to bridging theory and practice to ensure donors are able to maximize their investments, and organizations are resourced to achieve their greatest potential. That bridge, as well as the engagement of community is the foundation on which Moore Philanthropy was founded. During her 15 years in both private and public philanthropy Yvonne has observed a wide range of investments, some of which have yielded lasting improvements for families and communities, and meant success for the donor.
Helping make change is a choice. Do you help or hinder? Since 2010, the Black Diaspora has formally celebrated our collective history of philanthropy each August during Black Philanthropy Month.
“Over the past months and weeks, countless conversations with my colleagues, friends, partners, and peers in social justice have focused on the complexities and cruelties of 2016.”
Moore Philanthropy is a signatory on the Joint Foundation Statement on Immigration. Initiated by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, more than 190 philanthropic institutions have signed in support of this statement.
We have a crisis in philanthropy. And I use the word crisis on purpose; love of humankind is the foundation upon which a culture (not the institutions) of philanthropy was birthed and later institutionalized.
Philanthropy in this country did not begin with the creation of institutions established by oil and steel magnates, or with savvy investors. The origins and forms are numerous, but for me—a Black woman in America—philanthropy is ancient, personal, inter-generationally nurtured, and, quite honestly, expected.
Released in June 2016, The Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) and Foundation Center created the Index to help funders, policymakers, and the general public better understand the peace and security funding landscape.