Bold Solutions to Big Challenges

Building Impact Partners is a philanthropy advising firm that works together with changemakers to help people, communities, and society move forward for good.

Bold Solutions to Big Challenges

Building Impact Partners is a philanthropy advising firm that works together with changemakers to help people, communities, and society move forward for good.

Working with clients and communities, we design, develop, and deliver bold solutions to big challenges.

Bringing together a passionate team of problem-solvers with the insights, imagination and implementation experience to co-create effective solutions that endure.

Working across philanthropy — from high-impact grantmaking to program innovation to activation to advocacy — to redefine what’s possible.

Building up the knowledge, skills and mindsets to transform systems and advance more just and equitable futures for all.

Partnering with individuals, families, and foundations, we co-create solutions that have a lasting impact and spark systems change.

11 years

of impact
Advised on

$1B +

in total grantmaking

1200+

community partners supported

Insights & Resources

We’re shaping the future of philanthropy, together. Explore our emerging ideas and innovations to advance philanthropy for the benefit of all.

In social impact work we tend to wear many hats, but I was recently surprised to learn how many of...
By Caitlin Hannon
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08 / 09 / 24
No one philanthropist or foundation can do everything well, and no one philanthropist or foundation can solve all of the...
By Tanis Klingler
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06 / 28 / 24
As a working mom with four kids under seven, I’ve learned to adjust the expectations I have for motherhood. My...
By Caitlin Hannon
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03 / 25 / 24
In 2021, at the height of a global pandemic, 98 new billionaires joined the Forbes list in America alone. Collectively,...
By Alex Johnston
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12 / 14 / 23
This holiday season my wife and I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary. Ever the philosopher, my 13-year-old son asked...
By Mike Wang
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12 / 08 / 23
Over the last eleven years, we’ve had the privilege at Building Impact to partner with incredible donors and other changemakers...
By Building Impact
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10 / 20 / 23
A few weeks ago I shared some data about the demographics and giving habits of the ultra wealthy on my...
By Alex Johnston
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12 / 15 / 22
One of the biggest barriers to giving, and giving effectively, is the American taboo around talking about money and wealth....
By Alex Johnston
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08 / 24 / 22
Recently, a well-respected philanthropist came to me on a mission to find more meaning in her giving. Many like her...
By Mike Wang
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07 / 20 / 22
I started 2022 with an impossible goal—a goal that felt so unlikely, so totally implausible, that it was laughable in its...
By Caitlin Hannon
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04 / 24 / 22
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