Pooled Giving & Learning

The GMA Funder Community promises a great experience in breaking out of traditional giving models. We aim to tap into the potential we see in groups of individual funders with overlapping missions and goals.

GMA Funder Community’s four-session pooled giving and learning experience accepts grants from donors eager to identify and fund community-driven solutions to a large-scale problem affecting people across the country. Following three learning sessions with experts,  participants meet with prospective grantees and then decided together how to allocate the Fund’s dollars.

These participant-driven funds take place once a year and have addressed issues like Trauma and Resilience, Responses to the Opioid Crisis, and Environmental Justice. We welcome recommendations for prospective focus areas. Find links below to read about past funds.

Fund Participation

The participant-directed Fund is a project under the fiscal sponsorship of Philanthropy Massachusetts. Participation is open to private foundations, corporate giving programs, donor-advised fund accounts, and individual donors.

Contact GMA Senior Program Officer Rachel Rifkin by phone 617-391-3097 or email rrifkin@gmafoundations.com to learn more about the GMA Funder Community.

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Read about earlier funds launched by GMA:

2025 Fund for Young Adults – Guaranteed Income in Workforce Development

2023-24 Fund for Young Adults

2022 Child Behavioral Health Fund

2021 Environmental Justice Fund

2020 Opioid Response Fund

2019 Trauma and Resilience Fund