The Center for High Impact Philanthropy’s annual giving toolkit provides individual donors and professional grantmakers with actionable guidance for high impact giving year-round.

The 2026 High Impact Giving Tool Kit includes a practical guide on what high impact philanthropy really means and four high-level strategies to help you practice it, no matter what cause or geographic community you care about. To demonstrate high impact philanthropy in practice, we spotlight evergreen areas that are foundational to people’s survival: education, health, housing, and conservation and livelihoods. In each area, you’ll find four nonprofit examples showing best practices in action.

This year we provide a first look at our Community Resilience Framework, a new, timely framework to help funders strength communities so they can withstand economic shocks and both natural and human-made crises.