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How to Power Innovation Beyond Core Programs
The Engine 1/Engine 2 concept can help nonprofits navigate the tension between running core programs and services while simultaneously investing in innovation.
Back to the Frontier: Investing that Puts Impact First
Wealthy individuals and families are uniquely positioned to fill the middle ground between market-rate impact investments and philanthropic grants.
Resilient Nonprofits Tap into Their Superpowers
How two nonprofits, ImmSchools and The Climate Reality Project, used their unique assets to push through the current crisis and prepare for challenges yet to come.

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Partnership, Risk-Taking, and Innovation in Philanthropy

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Bringing right-sized rigor to investors who seek social impact

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Attract, Develop, and Retain Skilled Talent

Pay-What-It-Takes to Get Results

Delivering outcomes that matter

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Transformative Scale

Serving Isn't Enough - Let's Start Solving

Field Building for Population-Level Change
Four key principles for funders to embrace to create conditions for field builders that accelerate their impact.

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How to Power Innovation Beyond Core Programs

Back to the Frontier: Investing that Puts Impact First

Resilient Nonprofits Tap into Their Superpowers

Bridgespan is committed to racial equity and racial justice. We stand in solidarity with those standing up for Black lives and against police brutality.

Read our statement >>

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COVID-19 Resource Center

Racial Equity in Philanthropy: Closing the Funding Gap

Effective Nonprofit Executive Teams

Big Bets

Becoming Big Bettable

Audacious Philanthropy

What Philanthropy Can Do Now to Support Grantees

Impact Investing

Three Ways for Impact Investors to Respond to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

The Role of Evidence in Impact Investing

What Is Impact Investing and Why Should You Care?

Leadership Development

Four Ways a Nonprofit Board Can Support a Leadership Transition

Structuring Your Decision-Making Process

Executive Team Effectiveness Toolkit

Pay-What-It-Takes to Get Results

Accelerating the Movement Toward Funding Practices That Strengthen Nonprofits

Five Foundations Address the "Starvation Cycle"

Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy

Transformative Scale

Field Building for Population-Level Change

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"Bridgespan has been a critical partner for 15 years, helping the Harlem Children's Zone turn innovative ideas into innovative programs to help thousands of children and families."

Geoffrey Canada
President, Harlem Children's Zone

We help you create the social change you seek

Our Services

How to Power Innovation Beyond Core Programs

Back to the Frontier: Investing that Puts Impact First

Resilient Nonprofits Tap into Their Superpowers

Bridgespan is committed to racial equity and racial justice. We stand in solidarity with those standing up for Black lives and against police brutality. Read our statement >>

Special Collections

COVID-19 Resource Center

Racial Equity in Philanthropy: Closing the Funding Gap

Effective Nonprofit Executive Teams

Big Bets

Becoming Big Bettable

Audacious Philanthropy

What Philanthropy Can Do Now to Support Grantees

Impact Investing

Three Ways for Impact Investors to Respond to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

The Role of Evidence in Impact Investing

What Is Impact Investing and Why Should You Care?

Leadership Development

Four Ways a Nonprofit Board Can Support a Leadership Transition

Structuring Your Decision-Making Process

Executive Team Effectiveness Toolkit

Pay-What-It-Takes to Get Results

Accelerating the Movement Toward Funding Practices That Strengthen Nonprofits

Five Foundations Address the "Starvation Cycle"

Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy

Transformative Scale

Field Building for Population-Level Change

See how we can help

We're tackling some of society's most critical challenges. Want to help?

"Bridgespan has been a critical partner for 15 years, helping the Harlem Children's Zone turn innovative ideas into innovative programs to help thousands of children and families."

Geoffrey Canada President, Harlem Children's Zone

Bridgespan is committed to racial equity and racial justice. We stand in solidarity with those standing up for Black lives and against police brutality.

Read our statement >>

Geoffrey Canada
President, Harlem Children's Zone