WINGS is a community of thought leaders and changemakers who are committed to ensuring philanthropy reaches its fullest potential as a catalyst for social progress. We are committed to end inertia, break down silos, challenge conventional wisdom and create 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 healthy 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 a network of philanthropy development and support organisations committed to ensuring philanthropy reaches its fullest potential as a catalyst for social progress. Our growing community of thought leaders and changemakers includes more than 190 member organisations across 50+ countries.

While the philanthropic instinct has fueled human progress since the dawn of history, and philanthropic resources can be measured in hundreds of billions of dollars each year, the real potential of philanthropy in all its forms has yet to be harnessed to its greatest effect. Tapping into the collective potential of private funding — from foundations to the generous middle class, from High Net Worth Individuals to individual acts of charity in communities and neighbourhoods everywhere —would have a game-changing impact on achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and build more just, equitable and healthy societies around the world.

Achieving this requires strategic thinking and intentional investments in the infrastructure that can support, stimulate, and lead philanthropy, giving and private social investment. This diverse set of enablers and catalysts - philanthropy networks, advisors, advocates, collaboratives, giving platforms, etc.- boost the volumes and effectiveness of philanthropy. The vision of the philanthropy support ecosystem is when these players come together, collaborate and are strongly supported to carry out their critical mission.

We are at the forefront of a movement of changemakers who believe that investing in such ecosystems can be game-changing for social impact in every community and region in which this approach is being deployed.

We work with all visionary funders who want to increase the impact and sustainability of their work by making this a central tenet of their mission.

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WINGS offers two types of membership:

Member — The WINGS network is open to associations, organisations and groups that provide leadership and support services to the philanthropic community, contribute to the philanthropy support ecosystem and/or are engaged with the promotion of philanthropic work in all its varied forms. 

Supporting member — WINGS has created our supporting member category for organisations that do not fit the membership criteria but are committed to supporting the development of philanthropy and its ecosystem. Organisations in this category seek ways to offer concrete support of philanthropy development and who want to contribute to (or participate in) the mission of the WINGS network.

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