How We Can Help

• Where others see challenge, we see change.

  The desire to give is one of humankind’s most powerful forces for good. But every savvy philanthropist knows that good intentions are just the beginning. Impact is what matters. We can help you achieve it.

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Where others see challenge, we see change.

At Arabella Advisors, we know philanthropists not only need a plan to generate impact. They need action. But it can be hard to see a way forward through a maze of endless possibilities. So we’ve built a company of creative problem solvers – more than two hundred experts we can choose from to craft the most efficient path between your inspiring idea and life-changing impact. A path that’s just right for you.

Wherever you are on your philanthropic journey, Arabella offers advisors who understand the problem you seek to solve and the complex network of people, institutions, and investment vehicles that can help you address it. Whether you want to launch a global movement, more effectively manage your existing work, better understand your outcomes, or amplify them with Arabella’s advocacy, impact investing, and donor partnership platforms, we can guide you forward.

Your philanthropic investments are too important, and the need too great, to get bogged down. So let’s get there faster. Let’s get there smarter. Let’s go from idea to impact.

• Connecting the right people, partners and platforms.

  Change takes more than a theory. It takes an ongoing, strategic implementation effort based on a thorough understanding of the 3Ps that enable and energize philanthropic efforts: People, Partners, and Platforms.

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Connecting the right people, partners and platforms.

Long-term, systemic change requires a deep understanding of the complex logistics of impact— of when and how to move the human, financial, and even intellectual resources needed to accomplish the goal. It requires not only a strategy but a well-constructed plan for implementing that strategy, one that anticipates the likely necessity of adapting the implementation plan in response to realities on the ground.

Seem obvious? Unfortunately, it’s not. Long experience shows that the all-important journey from vision to action is often given short shrift in our field.

Recognizing this, Arabella has developed a set of implementation tools that we use to help guide our clients on the journey from idea to impact. We use these tools to analyze, align, amplify, and accelerate the various forces that propel philanthropic efforts.

Fifteen years of continuous practice has taught us to think closely about three forces in particular, each of which we label with a P: People, Partners, and Platforms. By identifying (and, where necessary, creating) connections between and among these forces, we help our partners make the journey from idea to impact.

• Delivering for our clients and communities.

  We’ve helped our clients create significant impact across a wide range of issues, including health, education, social justice, civic engagement, the environment, and more.

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Delivering for our clients and communities.
We’ve helped our clients create significant change across a wide range of issues, including health, education, social justice, civic engagement, the environment, and more.
• Arabella’s Good Food efforts have led to major investments in sustainable agriculture and seafood, food access and equity, healthy food, and food waste.
• Arabella designed and helped implement a grant-making strategy that supports 1.5 million women who face mental health challenges.
• Arabella supported a project that established 34 protected areas and conserved 7 indigenous lands totaling 13 million acres in the Andes-Amazon region.
• Arabella designed a challenge grant to increase affordable housing through innovative ideas at the intersection of housing, health, education, and economic mobility.
• Arabella helped a funder create a philanthropic partnership strategy that aims to raise $100 million by 2020 for initiatives to strengthen our democracy.
• Arabella created a cohort of more than 35,000 educators across 40 states that empowered them to design growth and leadership development programs.
• Arabella coached a donor to become a preeminent leader in the field of green chemistry.
• Arabella launched the Center for Disaster Philanthropy to provide sustainable funding for communities impacted by natural disasters.

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