About Global Impact
Inspiring greater giving for nearly 70 years
Global Impact serves as a trusted philanthropy advisor, intermediary, and nonprofit partner for greater giving. We offer advisory and infrastructure services that drive strategic philanthropy for our nonprofit, public, and private sector clients. With nearly 70 years of experience, we have raised more than $2.5 billion with our partners for global causes. Global Impact is a part of Global Impact Ventures, a family of mission-driven organizations serving all of philanthropy for a better world.
Our mission is to
Inspire
greater giving
by unleashing the full potential of the philanthropic sector to transform lives.
We are
Collaborative
Innovative
Transformative
Inclusive
Locations
Global Impact currently has operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, and we are continuing to expand our global operations.
History
Global Impact was founded in 1956, when four international charities joined together to form a federation to participate in federal workplace giving. By the 1980s, the number of member charities had grown to approximately 50, and the organization was also representing its member charities in state government and private sector workplace giving campaigns.
In the 1990s, the organization expanded into local government workplace giving campaigns and began to offer add-on services such as state registration and cooperative advertising to boost the visibility of member charities. In 1996, Global Impact was named the Principal Combined Fund Organization for the Combined Federal Campaign-Overseas, which began the organization’s long history of helping to administer the federal government’s annual workplace giving campaign.
Throughout the next two decades Global Impact continued to expand its work with the Combined Federal Campaign, as well as with local, state, and private sector workplace giving campaigns—and today represents member charities in nearly 300 campaigns around the country.
In December 2023, Global Impact Ventures, a family of mission-driven organizations that serve all of philanthropy for a better world, was launched, unifying Global Impact, Geneva Global, Capital for Good, and GI Social Welfare Fund. Together the organizations have a geographic reach that spans the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia, and have collectively raised and influenced billions of dollars in philanthropic giving. Learn more by visiting the Global Impact Ventures website.
