Welcome to the website for Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace, a global network of philanthropy practitioners working to increase the impact of grantmaking for social justice and peace.

Use this website to learn more about us (About Us), get resources to help you improve your practice (Shared Knowledge), find out what’s happening now (News), make requests for information or assistance from other network members (Requests)and connect with peers and other websites (Web Links).

If you'd like to actively participate in the Network, click the button to the left.

Hiring Philanthropy for Social Justice & Peace Network Coordinator


The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace is excited to announce that we are hiring a Network Coordinator to move the work of the PSJP network forward. Please see the attached position description - and submit the attached hiring form with your resume/CV and a cover letter by September 15, 2011. And please pass this along to others who may be perfect for the position.

Thank you!

Impact Island at EFC Conference 2011


The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace, along with the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy, the European Foundation Centre (EFC), and Fondazione Cariplo, sponsored a highly interactive session at the EFC conference in Cascais called "Impact Island." The session aimed to address a number of different areas, including: reflecting upon attitudes in philanthropy toward impact analysis, investigating how context influences decisions on impact analysis, analyzing strategic approaches for applying various tools and methods, learning how to use evaluation results to communicate how foundations make a difference, and exploring practical tools and methods to analyze impact.

The agenda and description of the session is attached here - and the documents shared are available by clicking here.

To see a short video about the session, click here.

Social Justice Philanthropy Sessions at the Council on Foundations Conference


The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace has organized two sessions on Social Justice Philanthropy at the Council on Foundations conference - both on Sunday, 10 April. The first is from 9:30 - 11:00 AM in Room 406 on the 4th floor. The second is from 4:00 - 4:40 PM in Franklin Room 1 on Level 4. Join us!

Study on Grantmaking Strategies with a Social Justice Emphasis


The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace is gathering information that will be helpful to grantmakers who are interested in funding in these areas and are hoping you will click here to take the survey. We are researching the field to find out how funders develop and implement grantmaking strategies with a social justice emphasis. We hope to develop material that will be of practical value to funders who want to have an impact on social justice issues.

This survey is designed to only be taken by grantmakers (rather than consultants or researchers). If you have been a grantmaker in the recent past, please respond from that perspective.

The information gathered through this survey will be confidential and no names will be attributed in any report without the express permission of those supplying the information.

Social Justice Philanthropy Issue of Alliance Magazine Released


The December issue of Alliance magazine is now out, focusing on Social Justice Philanthropy, edited by Christopher Harris and with articles by many members of the Community of Practice. Click here to view it.

Social Justice Philanthropy: An Initial Framework for Positioning This Work


A paper by Albert Ruesga and Deborah Puntenney discussing eight different (and overlapping) traditions of social justice on which philanthropic practitioners base their practice.