New National Community of Philanthropic Funders, Practitioners to Promote Expansion of Effective Social Programs

"Shared knowledge and tools, as well as the benefits of being part of a network, should allow individuals and organizations to scale their impact more effectively and rapidly,” Dees said.

In announcing the launch of The Exchange, GPN said it will release a report based on its five years of investigation that finds the failure of top-performing programs to grow nationally represents a “huge missed opportunity to affect social change on a mass scale,” and that a well-organized, transparent and enduring system (a marketplace) can substantially enhance the way philanthropic capital is raised to support such scaling.