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The Systems Shifting Initiative The Shifting Systems Initiative (SSI)1 encourages philanthropic funders to work more collaboratively and to direct longer-term, more adaptive, and more responsive resources to grantees and investees. SSI believes that this method of funding will enable grantees and investees to scale up their solutions to better address the most pressing problems they work on, and contribute to positive systemic change around those challenges. The Initiative was launched in 2016, and over the next five years (2017-2022) SSI conducted research and convened dozens of events with funders and partners in the US, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) manages the Initiative, providing operational capacity and infrastructure. Financial support comes from RPA’s philanthropic partners: the Skoll, Porticus, Ford, and Chandler foundations, with modest additional funding coming in 2023 from Cartier Philanthropy and repeat grants from Skoll and Ford. The most recent phase of the Initiative started in June 2020 and included the commissioning of an evaluation to inform its next phase, consider how systems change in philanthropy has evolved as a field, and evaluate the role of the Initiative in contributing to that evolution.
Author: Shifting Systems Initiative steering group members and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
