Center for High Impact Philanthropy

07/29/2022

Our summer research assistants taking a well-earned ice cream break! Thank you Daria, Jin, Haoyan, and Ben for all of your hard work this summer.

05/19/2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted learning for children of all ages. How can funders help children recover learning lost during the pandemic and thrive? Join CHIP and the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading next Wednesday for a free webinar with funders from Vanguard and Maine Community Foundation who have been working to address that question.

Register here: https://www.impact.upenn.edu/early-school-success-webinar/

05/17/2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted learning for children of all ages. For children ages 0 – 8, brain development and social and emotional learning are especially critical. Early school success predicts later school success and a host of positive life outcomes. Unless we can recover learning lost during the pandemic and accelerate gains, we risk losing a generation of children. Here’s how to help.

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Campaign for Grade Level Reading present Early School Success, a primer and webinar to help donors and grantmakers support learning for young children during COVID-19 and in years beyond.
Register for our free webinar to:

-Learn how support the whole child at school and home
-Hear to expand learning opportunities so that learning happens everywhere
-Find strategies to ensure digital equity for all learning communities
-Hear from leaders at Vanguard and Maine Community Foundation about their work on early childhood and K-5 education

Register for the free event here: https://www.impact.upenn.edu/early-school-success-webinar/

05/13/2022

Philanthropy News Digest spoke with CHIP's founding executive director Kat Rosqueta about why she'll never say 'nonprofits have to be more business-like'; data for social impact; and the importance of Candid's work for practicing high impact philanthropy.

Philanthropy News Digest spoke with Rosqueta about her career, her work with CHIP, and how it all connects with Candid’s 2030 vision....

03/23/2022

The third episode of Just Economics, the new podcast from CHIP and Ioana Marinescu of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice, is now live! Eric Chyn, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, joins Ioana to discuss the impact of school desegregation on political partisanship. Listen here: impact.upenn.edu/just-economics

Just Economics In the Just Economics podcast, economist Ioana Marinescu (www.marinescu.eu), associate professor of public policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research explores what we actually know ab...

03/10/2022

Donating directly to citizens in Ukraine through booking Airbnb stays and buying digital files from Ukrainians on Etsy has gone viral, but is it an effective way to help people in need? CHIP's founding executive director weighs in:

"People have this desire to cut out the intermediary — the middle man — and go directly support those in need."

03/10/2022

As the U.S. government debates the expansion of the child tax credit, the Canadian child tax benefit can help us understand what impact a child tax credit expansion in the U.S. may have on poverty and work. In the second episode of Just Economics, the new podcast hosted by Ioana Marinescu and Kat Rosqueta, Mark Stabile, an economics professor at INSEAD, discusses his recent working paper “The Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit.”

Listen here:

03/07/2022

Since the Russian military invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the situation on the ground has unfolded quickly. Ongoing fighting and an escalating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine has produced the largest refugee crisis in Europe this century. 1 million to 5 million residents – mostly women and children – are fleeing to neighboring countries against a backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and during the cold winter, creating immense needs.

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy offers early guidance to donors and grant makers who want to respond to the most urgent needs: medical care, food, and shelter, both within Ukraine and among refugees, most of whom are women and children. In this guidance, you will find organizations and funds that are set up to meet evolving needs, as well as selected nonprofits already well-positioned to meet those needs. We’ve also included reliable information resources at the end of the page to help you to stay up to date on the situation.

To read the guidance, click here:

Ukraine: How Can I Help? The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has produced the largest refugee crisis in Europe this century. In less than a week, 1 million residents – mostly women and children – fled their homes. Every crisis goes through phases. Right now, Ukrainians face urg...