Curated Listings for Funders

GivingTuesday’s Upcoming Media Campaign
GivingTuesday’s (GT’s) upcoming media campaign could conservatively generate tens to hundreds of millions of additional dollars on December 2, 2025. While these projections may seem unusually high, keep in mind that GT has a vast network of amplifying partners ready to spread the word. An additional investment of $200,000 could make 15 million or more people in the U.S. aware—many for the very first time—that this movement exists.

Why Awareness Matters
Awareness builds the foundation for future giving. When people discover GT’s movement, it establishes credibility and social proof: they see that millions are already involved. Some new participants will donate immediately and continue giving over time. For others, that first spark of awareness plants a seed that can lead to future generosity.

Short-Term and Long-Term Impact
This campaign simultaneously provides urgent funding to nonprofits on December 2 while strengthening the long-term culture of generosity that underpins a healthier civil society.

GivingTuesday’s projects significantly higher returns than listed here. Its projections are based on rigorous multi-sourced data analytics and media efficiency research. You can review these findings here.

12 Million Nonprofits
There are approximately 12 million nonprofits worldwide. Imagine if platforms like GivingTuesday, TechSoup, National Council of Nonprofits, and GlobalGiving aligned to deliver capacity-building tools to millions by 2030.

Current Example
Through its partners’ networks, GT will reach 1.5 million nonprofits with awareness of its new AI-driven fundraising bot and 12-part training curriculum. Tens of thousands will utilize these tools in 2025, with many more benefiting from them over time.

Scaling the Model Globally
With funder support, similar collaborations could give nonprofits worldwide access to resources in fundraising, marketing, business development, and coalition-building—strengthening civil society at scale.

The Next Step
Propel Philanthropy will convene a funder-to-funder conversation on this vision in early 2026. Please contact us to learn more.

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.