📢 We have exciting news: Lever for Change has reached its goal of influencing $2.5 billion in grants! 📝 To mark the occasion, our team has created an Impact Report that details Lever for Change’s success and the people who made the achievement of this $2.5 billion milestone possible. 🤝 Since Lever for Change launched in 2019, our mission has been to help donors find and fund bold solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems. Six years in, we are more confident than ever. After reading this report, we hope you will share our excitement! 🎉 Read the report: https://lnkd.in/gx4FJ_hK
Lever for Change
Philanthropic Fundraising Services
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We connect donors with bold solutions that move the world.
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Lever for Change connects donors with bold solutions to the world’s biggest problems—including issues like racial inequity, gender inequality, lack of access to economic opportunity, and climate change. Using an inclusive, equitable model and due diligence process, Lever for Change creates customized challenges and other tailored funding opportunities. Top-ranked teams and challenge finalists become members of the Bold Solutions Network—a growing global network that helps secure additional funding, amplify members’ impact, and accelerate social change. Founded in 2019 as a nonprofit affiliate of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Lever for Change has influenced over $2.5 billion in grants to date and provided support to more than 175 organizations. To learn more, visit www.leverforchange.org.
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- 2019
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📣 BIG NEWS! We’re so excited to announce the Finalists for 100&Change! Major congratulations to the five teams advancing to the final round!🎉 🟢 The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project 🟢 Pratham USA 🟢 Sentinel - the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 🟢 Texas Children's Hospital 🟢 Wikimedia Foundation This exciting competition from MacArthur Foundation offers a $100 million grant to help solve one of the world's most critical social challenges. Learn more about the competition and Finalists: https://lnkd.in/e6k3WzQ #100andChange #LeverforChange #SocialImpact #Philanthropy
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🗽Application review is underway for The Trust in American Institutions Challenge! We are thrilled to support Reid Hoffman's vision of scaling transformative proposals that will build and restore public trust in America's core institutions.🏛️ ✨ Where does YOUR vision lie? No matter the subject area, our team is poised to help you discover bold, transformative solutions from all over the globe. 🌎 Learn more about our network and the services we offer funders: https://lnkd.in/gqpwjd-m
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🔎 Spot anything special on our new website? 🔍 🤝 Lever for Change has partnered with Every.org to make supporting big, bold ideas easier than ever through cash, stock, crypto, mobile wallet and DAF donations! 💫 🖱️Visitors to our website can now use the DONATE buttons on featured profiles to donate directly to more than 200 rigorously vetted nonprofit organizations in our Bold Solutions Network. 📰 Read more on this new partnership: https://lnkd.in/g6JxbDSJ 🎇 Browse our Bold Solutions Network: https://lnkd.in/gZMXHGsG
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🚀 We’re not just celebrating. We’re building community: Lever for Change has now influenced $2.5B in funding, supporting more than 500 organizations working to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Marc Moorghen, our Vice President, Marketing Communications, shares how this milestone sparked the launch of a new Impact Report, redesigned website, refreshed messaging, and updated donation tools. This is more than a celebration—it’s a step into our next chapter: influencing $10 billion in funding for more outstanding organizations in our network by 2030. 🛤 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gsZBj2mK #SocialImpact #BoldSolutions #LeverforChange #Philanthropy #Nonprofit
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📣 Check your inboxes: the latest Lever for Change newsletter is officially out! 🎉 Celebrating our $2.5 billion milestone, the April newsletter features our 2025 Impact Report, new website, added donate button feature, open call updates, and more! 🎆 https://lnkd.in/gH26UW6i 📰 Want to make sure you stay updated about our open calls and other exciting updates at Lever for Change? ✍️ Sign up for our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gr6rYjK5
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📣 Check your inboxes: the latest Lever for Change newsletter is officially out! 🎉 Celebrating our $2.5 billion milestone, the April newsletter features our 2025 Impact Report, new website, added donate button feature, open call updates, and more! 🎆 https://lnkd.in/gH26UW6i 📰 Want to make sure you stay updated about our open calls and other exciting updates at Lever for Change? ✍️ Sign up for our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gr6rYjK5
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✨ Very exciting news from our partners at Chicago Beyond! Big congratulations to these four Fellows. 🎉
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Chicago Beyond's Fellowship for Black Maternal Health and introduce you to four distinctive health leaders from around the country: - Jamarah Amani - Miami, Florida - Lucia Soraya DosSantos - New Bedford, Massachusetts - Femeika Elliott - Knoxville, Tennessee - Nikki Hunter-Greenaway - Houston, Texas First shared at Clinton Global Initiative in 2023, Chicago Beyond will be providing $500,000 in unrestricted grants to each leader over three years. The Fellowship will include programming to connect Fellows, further support their mission, and promote visibility of their work. Watch our video below to meet the Fellows, and learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eMrJqdKN #BlackMaternalHealth #MaternalHealth #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #WomensHealth Sacred Birthing Village, Southern Birth Justice Network
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📅 It's #WorldHealthDay! 🗺️ 🤝 Healthy partnerships create healthy communities, and that's why Lever for Change is thrilled to work with Pivotal Ventures on their second open call with us: #ActionforWomensHealth. We couldn't be prouder that Pivotal trusted us to venture into new territory with them and partner on this open call dedicated to women's mental and physical health around the world. 🏥 🔎 Visit our website to learn more about how Lever for Change enables funders to identify previously overlooked, yet powerful, solutions that align with their interests: https://lnkd.in/g-iQKmGZ
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🌟 Congratulations to Bold Solutions Network member Intercambio Uniting Communities for 25 years of impact! 🎉
We’re excited to share our Spring 2025 Community Journal with you! This newsletter is filled with feel-good stories, the latest news, and exciting updates from the Intercambio community. This year marks 25 years of creating impact and belonging, and we’ll be celebrating our silver anniversary at Cambio on April 11, 2025. We hope you can join us then. Please visit this link to read the newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eBtx_9nT #Intercambio #Community #AdultEducation #BoulderCounty
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