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Recipes for Health, Nutrition, and Sustainability

Oct 22, 2024 | arabellaadvisors.com | Eric Kessler

At last week’s Food Conference in New York City, hosted by the James Beard Foundation,* top chefs, food industry leaders, food movement advocates, and philanthropists explored the issue of trust in our food. Calls for more transparency and better science on everything from genetically-modified foods to the effect of factory-farmed dairy cattle on milk offered a dizzying array of opportunities for funders who are interested in health, nutrition, and sustainability.
To Get Beyond Two Percent, We Have to Go Beyond Giving

Oct 22, 2024 | arabellaadvisors.com | Eric Kessler

The Huffington Post invited Eric Kessler to contribute to its TED Weekends series, “The Business Case for 21st Century Charities.” The series revisits the ideas addressed in Dan Pallotta’s closing talk at the 2013 TED Conference. Eric’s contribution is reprinted below. Two percent isn’t going to do it. That’s the basic insight at the heart of Dan Pallotta’s argument. Charitable giving has been stuck at 2 percent of US GDP for 40 years, ever since we started measuring it.
The Future of Philanthropy: Be Bold, Be Brave, Be (a little) Boring

Oct 22, 2024 | arabellaadvisors.com | Eric Kessler

Interested in what’s new, innovative, and game changing in the philanthropy world? You should crash an Arabella staff retreat. Every year we get our team together for a fascinating and fun few days of big-picture thinking and brainstorming about the evolutions and needs of the philanthropy world. This year’s retreat, held a few weeks back, was just as thought provoking and inspiring as our past gatherings.
Cut the Hooptedoodle and Other Lessons for Philanthropy from Elmore Leonard

Oct 22, 2024 | arabellaadvisors.com | Eric Kessler

Effective philanthropy depends on the exchange of ideas and information across all sorts of internal and external boundaries. It also frequently depends on the ability to communicate, in powerful ways, about the crucial work donors, grantees, and social entrepreneurs do. To advance many of our shared missions, we need clear, concise, persuasive writing, and plenty of effective storytelling.
Four Philanthropy Fallacies

Oct 22, 2024 | arabellaadvisors.com | Eric Kessler

Americans gave $410 billion to charities in 2017, much of it during the mad scramble of the hectic holiday season. Donors made their end-of-year contributions amid the distractions of shopping lists, party schedules, work deadlines, and family. This can’t help but make giving smartly challenging—no matter how many zeros are on the check. So, in 2018 resolve to give wisely—all year round. You can start by avoiding these common fallacies of philanthropy:1. Other people know where you should give.
Arabella's Recipe for Good Food

Oct 22, 2024 | arabellaadvisors.com | Eric Kessler

The time to fix our food system has come. We hope you will join us as we help to grow Good Food—a new system that produces delicious, nutritious, sustainable food that is accessible for all. I’m thrilled to announce that Arabella Advisors is launching a Good Food practice.
Five Ways to Dramatically Reduce Food Waste

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.
12 Good Food Policy Priorities

Oct 22, 2024 | arabellaadvisors.com | Eric Kessler

We need to build a Good Food policy strategy that enables funders, investors, advocates, and others to coordinate efforts and increase the impact of the Good Food movement. Here’s how we can get started. Last week, we launched Arabella’s Good Food practice and wrote about our three ingredients for a Good Food future: Culture, Infrastructure, and Policy. This week, we’re excited to announce Arabella’s list of 12 Good Food policy priorities, which you can download below as a simple one-page guide.
4 Ideas for Making Your Impact Massive: Friendly Advice for a New Generation of Funders, Philanthropists, and Changemakers

Oct 22, 2024 | arabellaadvisors.com | Jeff Rosenthal |Eric Kessler

The desire to give is one of humankind’s most powerful forces for good. But good intentions are just the beginning. The quality of our impact is what matters, not the intention. Our actions, not our rhetoric. Arabella Advisors has advised the world’s leading philanthropists for the last 15 years, and we believe in the unprecedented potential of a new generation of changemakers to bring more wellbeing and progress into the world.