![]() ![]() “We’re trying to broaden our work to cover as many social justice areas as possible without getting so big that we lose our high-touch approach,” Di Donato said. Proteus’ different collaborative funds can pool resources in a way that achieves more than scattered gifts, creating a sense of shared purpose among the givers. Proteus and its peers fill a knowledge gap, helping left-leaning individual donors and small foundations fund movement groups they might otherwise struggle to connect with. In many ways, the post-2016 surge in progressive giving has played to Proteus’ strengths, including a “high-touch” approach that prizes donor education. “Almost doubling our grantmaking in size has been an important evolution, tied to what we’re facing in the current period.” “We’ve gone from giving $11 million or $12 million to $20 million a year,” said Paul Di Donato, President and CEO. These concerns have become ever more pressing since Donald Trump’s election, and so even as other philanthropic intermediaries have proliferated, Proteus has grown. ![]() ![]() The Proteus Fund has awarded over $200 million in grants to further its mission: advancing democracy, human rights and peace. But with founding president Meg Gage at the helm, Proteus helped pioneer the brand of collaborative giving that has grown so vital to today’s resurgent grassroots left. Sure, donors have collaborated through community foundations, giving circles and the like for decades. When the Proteus Fund came into being in 1994, the world of funding intermediaries was far less crowded than it is today. ![]()
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