Donor Collaboratives

We help clients incubate, launch, and manage donor collaboratives to scale their impact, increase collaboration with other philanthropists, and galvanize giving to a particular issue.

An Opportunity for Collective Impact

Donor collaboratives are a proven, effective vehicle for mobilizing philanthropic resources towards a specific cause.

They facilitate collaboration and co-funding among stakeholders, while offering contributing donors a streamlined grantmaking approach to further the impact of their philanthropic dollars.

Since 2010, Geneva Global has worked with clients to set up, launch, and manage donor collaboratives, which have mobilized more than $750 million for global health and development causes.

Our Fund Services

We can be as light-touch or as hands-on as needed, across several areas:

  • Bringing donors together to articulate a shared vision and setting up a giving vehicle
  • Developing a theory of change and grantmaking approach that meets the needs of the collective
  • Creating a governance system to define roles and decision-making
  • Developing the fund’s positioning and messaging to create a compelling case
  • Formulating and executing plans for the ongoing stewardship and retention of donors, as well as cultivation of new donors
  • Develop quarterly and/or annual reports that communicate a collaborative’s performance and impact
  • Fund donor management including financials and reporting

Our Fund Services

We can be as light-touch or as hands-on as needed, across several areas:

  • Bringing donors together to articulate a shared vision and setting up a giving vehicle
  • Developing a theory of change and grantmaking approach that meets the needs of the collective
  • Creating a governance system to define roles and decision-making
  • Developing the fund’s positioning and messaging to create a compelling case
  • Formulating and executing plans for the ongoing stewardship and retention of donors, as well as cultivation of new donors
  • Develop quarterly and/or annual reports that communicate a collaborative’s performance and impact
  • Fund donor management including financials and reporting

Our Track Record

A sample of the donor collaboratives we've helped launch and manage.

The Girls First Fund

The Girls First Fund is a donor collaborative that champions community-led efforts to end child marriage so that all girls are free to create their own future.

The END Fund

The END Fund brings together a variety of donors to combat neglected tropical diseases.

The Integrated Fund

The Integrated Fund provides an opportunity for entrepreneurial philanthropists to invest in a creative development model that will generate long-term, sustainable social return in a targeted region.

Ebola Crisis Fund

The Ebola Crisis Fund filled a needed gap in the humanitarian response by funding grassroots, community-based organizations fighting the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.

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The Luminos Fund

The Luminos Fund is a private philanthropic donor fund which aims to bring the life-changing opportunity of education to the most disadvantaged children across Africa and around the world.