Giving With Impact

References & Resources:

• The Aid Cloud, a platform that provides connector agencies with a complete framework for supporting local organizations, combining operational models, financial architecture, and technicalz infrastructure that enable direct funding at scale.
• Story of Helping, The Aid Cloud’s first connector agency, funding 22 projects from 14 local organizations across Myanmar and the Thailand-Myanmar border regions.
• “Beyond USAID,” an article in SSIR by N Hlaing and Jose Ravano with details about how The Aid Cloud provides infrastructure that enables local organizations to access private funding sources.

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Giving With Impact is hosted by Barbara Wheeler-Bride and produced with support from Jordan Turgeon, Marcel Malekebu, and Bryan Maygers. Artwork is by Peter Grant.

Thank you to DAFgiving360® for their financial support to make this podcast possible. 

DAFgiving360® is an independent 501(c)(3) public charity with a mission to increase charitable giving in the U.S. DAFgiving360® does this by providing the tax-smart and simple giving solution of a donor-advised fund (DAF) account to donors and financial advisors. Since our founding in 1999 as a 501(c)(3) public charity, DAFgiving360® donors have recommended over $50 billion in grants to 295,000 charities. Visit dafgiving360.org to learn more.

References: 

• Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow, a series of articles in SSIR with insights on the growing field of impact investing from members of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, which Megan Kashner leads
• Five Dimensions of Impact from Impact Frontiers
• Alpha in Impact: Strengthening Outcomes from Impact Capital Managers
• GINN’s State of the Market 2025: Trends, Performance and Allocations

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Additional Resources: 

• GivingUSA: 2025 Charitable Giving Stats
• DAF Research Collaborative: Annual DAF Report 2025
• Impact Capital Managers: Alpha in Impact - Strengthening Outcomes
• Roots of Impact
• Social Finance
• Third Sector
• Mission Investors Exchange
• Impact Assets
• Mission-Driven Finance
• Impact Alpha

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Giving With Impact is hosted by Barbara Wheeler-Bride and produced with support from Jordan Turgeon, Marcel Malekebu, and Bryan Maygers. Artwork is by Peter Grant.

Thank you to DAFgiving360® for their financial support to make this podcast possible. DAFgiving360® is an independent 501(c)(3) public charity with a mission to increase charitable giving in the U.S. DAFgiving360® does this by providing the tax-smart and simple giving solution of a donor-advised fund (DAF) account to donors and financial advisors. Since our founding in 1999 as a 501(c)(3) public charity, DAFgiving360® donors have recommended over $50 billion in grants to 300,000 charities. Visit dafgiving360.org to learn more. 

Stanford Social Innovation Review is published by the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University. Visit ssir.org to learn more and subscribe today.

Stanford Social Innovation Review is published by the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University. Visit SSIR.org to learn more and subscribe today.
 

Guests:

Mollie Van Horn, Executive Director of the Tawingo Fund

Nick Tedesco, President and CEO, National Center for Family Philanthropy

Mary Jovanovich, Senior Manager of Charitable Consulting, DAFgiving360

Barbara Wheeler-Bride, Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review

Claire McGuinness, Strategy and Partnerships Manager at One Acre Fund

Maya Batres, Senior Advisor on People and Climate at The Nature Conservancy

Shawn Jensen, Director of Business Development, DAFgiving360

Barbara Wheeler-Bride, Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review

Participants:

Host: Barbara Wheeler-Bride, Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review

Kyle Endres, Executive Director of We Don’t Waste, a food recovery organization working with communities across the Denver Metro region 

Vince Hall, Chief Government Relations Officer at Feeding America

Alisia Robin, Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships and Non-profit Outreach at DAFGiving360

Our contributors:

Bob Kitchen, Vice President, Emergencies and Humanitarian Action, International Rescue Committee

Harriet Carvalho, Director of Operations, DAFGiving360

Barbara Wheeler-Bride, Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review

Contributors

David Garza, President and CEO of Henry Street Settlement in New York City, a non-profit whose mission is to open doors of opportunities for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social services, arts and healthcare programs

Kevin Greaney, co-founder of PhilARThropy, a non-profit working to help fund the next generation of art teachers and programs 

Eric Joranson, Senior Manager at DAFgiving360

Barbara Wheeler-Bride, Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review