Issue-based Markets

The Exchange is organizing national funder marketplaces to generate exponentially more growth funding in education, health, poverty, youth and Impact Investing. It's market formation model includes:

Working Groups

Funder Working Groups that collaboratively identify and fund the scaling of evidence-based initiatives in their field serve as the nucleus of each collaborative marketplace. The groups, which are in formation, will consist of 25-35 funders that include foundations, corporations and government agencies. Working Groups will consider funding a variety of initiatives that can drive scaled impact, including replication, practice dissemination, policy initiatives, system change and more.

Funder Network

Each working group will have a broader network of hundreds of foundations and funders associated with it that review its investment recommendations, for possible co-funding. Working Groups will work closely with affinity groups to build networks of funders. In this way a marketplace is created that is similar to a private placement marketplace in the for-profit sector that leverages the combined funding of a large distributed network of foundations – both locally and nationally. For more information on the working groups and how to participate see Working Groups.

• Education
• Health
• Poverty
• Youth Development
• Impact Investing