WINGS is the only global network of philanthropy support and development organisations. We are a community of more than 200 thought leaders and changemakers across 58 countries who are committed to growing and strengthening philanthropy to ensure that it reaches its fullest potential as a catalyst for social progress. We are committed to ending inertia, breaking down silos, challenging conventional wisdom and creating an enabling environment for philanthropy to flourish. Our goal is to encourage collaboration and ignite potential – to rally philanthropic actors everywhere to build a more just, equitable and sustainable world.

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WINGS is an established hub of wisdom, critical thinking and practical experience. We ensure philanthropic actors and decision-makers around the world have the best information, the most effective models for social progress, and access to the most impactful collaborations and partnerships.

Collective intelligence

As a diverse community of thought leaders, advocates and practitioners, WINGS’ members have a unique understanding of how to unlock the potential of ecosystems that can increase the impact of private funding. Together, we provide expertise, peer learning and hands-on collaboration to build stronger, more cohesive ecosystems that help unleash the power of philanthropy as a catalyst for social progress —locally, regionally and globally.

Strengthening ecosystems

The strength of our global membership provides us with the agency to understand and overcome the mental, structural and policy barriers that limit philanthropy’s ability to flourish. We work side-by-side with our members to advocate for philanthropy’s role in a strong civil society and create policies to ensure the best possible enabling environment for philanthropic work to thrive.

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We work in three impact areas which, together, offer the greatest potential for creating lasting systemic change.

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WINGS is the only global network of philanthropy support and development organisations committed to growing and strengthening philanthropy to ensure that it reaches its fullest potential as a catalyst for social progress. Our growing community of thought leaders and changemakers includes more than 200 member organisations across 58 countries.

The Philanthropy Support Ecosystem (PSE) includes the community of interacting organisations, functions and activities that assist and enable the achievement of philanthropy’s potential by nurturing its capacity, capabilities, connection and credibility. 

Our world is facing challenges of an unprecedented scale and urgency. It is also filled with incredibly inventive, resilient and hopeful communities, leaders and people seeking to build a happier, healthier, more just and sustainable world. These changemakers need support. They need resources, funding, capacity and enabling policies. Beyond the huge and too often unnoticed amount of services they provide, they need support to influence lawmakers and create new socio-environmental and economic systems.

WINGS provides a global platform for these enablers and developers. We are uniquely positioned to see the important contribution they are making to philanthropy and giving on all continents, and the growing diversity of ways in which they are making it. We also see how much work is required to build robust support ecosystems, especially where they are most needed.

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* Intermediary, joint and community funds can decide if they would rather be classified as a supporting member, including membership in the Funders Working Group. We will review this on a case-by-case basis.

The recommended scale is based on the principle of solidarity and to allow our regular membership to be as affordable as possible for a wide variety of philanthropy support organisations, many of which operate with very limited flexible resources.

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* INGOs can decide if they would rather be classified as a supporting member, including membership in the Funders Working Group. We will review this on a case-by-case basis.

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WINGS offers the following types of membership:

Regular member — Regular members are recognised as legitimate organisations whose primary focus is to develop, strengthen and promote the field of philanthropy and giving (more than 50% of their activities should be aimed at this). Organisations can be for-profit but must contribute to building the field such as developing publicly available research.

Supporting member — Supporting members must demonstrate a commitment, investment (primarily financial) and/or interest in developing the field of philanthropy, local resource mobilisation, and strengthening civil society. They can include: Private institutional funders • Family offices • Multilateral and bilateral development finance agencies and other development funders. This category of supporting members has access to the Funders Working Group, a funder peer community. 

Enabling member — Enabling members support philanthropy as a subset of their main functions: • Audit firms • Banks/wealth management firms • Data analytics organisations • Fellowships and talent management organisations • Incubators and accelerators • INGOs* •  Law firms • Mainstream consulting firms • Marketing and PR Firms • Non-profit organisations • Social media and technology platforms.

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If you have doubts or need additional information, contact Eva Rehse, Network and Ecosystems Director at WINGS.

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