Curated Listings for Funders

This effort seeks to greatly increase donations across the U.S. by enhancing GivingTuesday’s brand awareness. Currently, only 33% of Americans are aware of the movement or organization. Our campaign aims to increase it by 9-15 percentage points on the organization’s annual day of giving. Doing so will reach between 30.6 and 51 million additional Americans. Increasing awareness will have both short-term and long-term impacts.

This type of organizational support can be transformative. For example, Charity Water reports that investments in brand awareness resulted in a 350% increase in website traffic within a year. For GivingTuesday, this campaign could facilitate raising between $900 million and $1.6 billion on December 2, 2025.

With a $75,000 anchor investment from Propel Philanthropy’s founder, Peter Brach, this campaign will also include providing an online bot and a 12-part curriculum projected to serve up to 50,000 nonprofits. We seek to raise $300,000, with a $15,000 minimum requested from donors.

GivingTuesday’s projections are solid. They are based on rigorous multi-sourced data analytics and media efficiency research. You can review these findings here.

Today, there are more than 12 million nonprofits worldwide. Imagine if existing platforms—such as GivingTuesday, TechSoup, Global Giving, and others—could coordinate online capacity-building efforts for millions of these frontline forces by 2030.

The GivingTuesday (GT) listing above is an excellent example: Because of collaborative support from it partners with large networks, GT will be able to send news about its new online AI-driven bot and 12-part fundraising curriculum to approximately 1.5 million nonprofits. Consequently, GT projects that up to 50,000 of them will use these resources to prepare for their 2025 fundraising campaigns, and many more will use them in the future.

Now imagine funders investing to enable many more promising and coordinated efforts to take place across these networks. Over time, doing so could provide millions of nonprofits worldwide with access to a wealth of online assistance. Support would be in areas including fundraising, social media marketing, business development, building strategic collaborations, and other related activities. Doing so would strengthen countless nonprofits and civil society organizations to improve their capacities to serve communities worldwide.

These networks are already laying the groundwork. The next step is for funders to sit down with them and ask: How can we help you do more?

Propel Philanthropy will convene a funder-to-funder conversation on this global vision in early 2026. You are warmly invited to participate.

Africa’s civil society organizations (CSOs) risk being left behind in the AI revolution. At a recent pan-African conference, AI training was barely mentioned—yet most will agree that the potential for transformative impact is enormous.

The African CSO Platform alone maintains a network of 4,000 organizations across 40 countries. With a small grant from Peter Brach at Propel Philanthropy, its leaders (the Epic Africa Foundation) completed training in basic and mid-level AI. We are now exploring how EA can leverage its reach to provide basic training to a large number of other networks and civil society organizations within its network to create a large-scale impact.

If you are interested in participating in this conversation, please contact Peter Brach using the link below.

This listing was included in our curated list because Young Change Agents in Australia reports to “have delivered social entrepreneurship curriculum to 1710+ schools and 195K youth in Australia and piloted in 5 countries in 2025.” While funders will need to undergo due diligence to verify this reporting, we believe this project deserves further exploration. Providing practical social entrepreneurship training to people in their formative years is a highly systemic approach for bringing about social change.

The presentation below came from Young Change Agents:

Help scale Young Change Agents globally: invest in global youth changemaking

In 2024/25, we piloted a bold new initiative designed to bring social enterprise education and youth-led innovation to new corners of the world.

Now, with proof of concept in hand, we’re ready to scale.

US$75K will:

• Support the five pilot countries to expand beyond the pilot stage
• Onboard 10+ additional partners (200+ schools)
• Train regional master trainers
• Facilitate local contextualisation
• Coordinate our Global Research Study

This is not just another education project. It’s a strategic effort to build a platform for global capacity, enabling scalable programs that empower young people to tackle local and global challenges.

By investing in this catalytic role, you’ll unlock exponential impact: hundreds of educators trained and a global community of youth changemakers. We call it “exponential good”.

Please contact Propel Philanthropy to learn more.

Many nonprofits could receive up to $120,000 per year through free Google Ads if they simply applied. However, many don’t know it is that easy to receive these grants. We believe this leaves a huge opportunity to alert these organizations to this possibility and provide expert guidance to help them grow visibility, attract new donors, and build strong email lists. Funders are invited to convene to discuss pooled funding strategies to take advantage of the overlooked power of Google Ad Grants. 

Propel Philanthropy maintains a growing directory of nearly 30 social impact infrastructure organizations (SIIOs). While not a curated list, it can be a valuable tool for funders. We recommend that interested funders contact aligned organizations to explore how their giving could be catalytic in helping them grow and/or better support their constituents.

More listings coming in September. Please check back.

Propel Philanthropy conducts preliminary vetting to highlight opportunities we believe merit further exploration. However, we do not guarantee outcomes, and all risks cannot be eliminated. Funders understand that all funding decisions are their own and that it is their responsibility to conduct independent due diligence. While Propel Philanthropy offers free light consulting, this does not replace the need for thorough vetting. Any listing or suggestion on our site is intended only as promising avenues for exploration. For these reasons or otherwise, visitors of our site, or in contact with us otherwise, agree to hold Propel Philanthropy and its associates harmless from any resulting outcomes, whether positive or negative.