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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin |Shelley Whelpton
With the right approach, smart risk taking can help funders achieve even greater impact. As philanthropy seeks to achieve more impact with its investments, many funders are neither adequately defining their appetite for risk nor implementing risk management policies and practices accordingly.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin
For a Good Food system to take root, we need to increase the flow of investment capital to companies that are working to create Good Food products and services. At the 2016 Change Food Fest, the leader of Arabella’s Good Food team, Eric Kessler, described why Good Food investment opportunities are a good bet for investors, entrepreneurs, and consumers alike.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin
In this new political climate, donors should take swift action to protect the rights and values they hold dear. Following the first week of the Trump administration, donors with a wide variety of political beliefs and philanthropic missions—all of whom Arabella serves—have reached out to me to express their concerns.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin
Some of philanthropy’s core practices may unwittingly be leading funders to perpetuate the inequities they’re trying to eliminate. In an article originally published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, we examine how.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin
Many of the donors with whom Arabella works realize that sustained advocacy efforts are crucial to the passage and implementation of public policies that support the people, places, and causes they care about. They know that by making smart investments in advocacy, they have the potential to accomplish (or, in some cases, prevent) policy changes with transformational impact.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin |Eric Kessler
The food we leave on our plates, that we let linger on our shelves too long, that stores and restaurants toss, and that farmers leave in fields negatively affects our health, our economy, and our environment. These on-the-ground solutions are springboards to a more resilient and productive food system. American consumers and businesses send 52 million tons of food to landfills every year, adding up to $218 billion worth of food and comprising up to 1.3 percent of the country’s GDP.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin |andrew schulz |Diana Tyler Heath
Giving back can be one of your most rewarding activities, but it doesn’t come without challenges. Engaging an advisor to help you plan and work with you along the way can ease the burden and ensure you genuinely enjoy your philanthropy. As we approach the end of the year, many people’s minds turn to giving. Maybe you’re realizing that you have more funds available than expected, or maybe you’re noticing an uptick in charitable solicitations in your inbox.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin
In the month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, the world has looked on with alarm, horror, and a rising desire to help in any way possible. Funders in the West are eager to deploy their resources in a way that will help defend Ukrainian democracy and sovereignty, protect civilian lives and livelihoods, and support a strong, stable future for Ukrainians in the years to come.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin
The philanthropic sector has arrived at a moment of urgent opportunity. The challenges facing our society are systemic in nature—from climate change to disinformation—and more complex than ever before. Even so, we at Arabella Advisors are optimistic about the future. We are privileged to support the ambitious, inspiring changemakers who are advancing transformative solutions to the most vexing issues of our time.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arabellaadvisors.com | Alissa Gulin
Thanks to our work with a wide variety of clients and partners, the team at Arabella has a unique view of the social sector and the philanthropic ecosystems that support it. Given that perch, we assembled a panel of contributors from across the firm to highlight key trends for 2024 in three broad areas: 1) what will get funded; 2) who will make funding decisions and how; and 3) which vehicles funders will use to pursue their philanthropic goals.
