Philanthropy Hub

The Hub: a platform for collaboration, innovation, and coordinated action

Today’s development challenges are too complex for any one organization to solve alone.

Progress depends on bringing together innovation, capital, knowledge, local and global experience, and the ability to turn promising ideas into solutions that work at scale.

The Philanthropy Hub creates a new space for such collaboration. It connects philanthropic organizations with governments, development institutions, businesses, networks, researchers, and practitioners to pursue shared goals, accelerate impact, and open opportunities that would otherwise remain out of reach.

The Hub is organized around shared missions: ambitious goals with clear outcomes that partners can work toward together. Rather than starting with a one-off funding request, partners help shape priorities and solutions from the outset, combining their strengths around a common purpose.

The Hub helps philanthropic organizations find the right opportunities for their funding, ideas, networks, and expertise. It connects partners with relevant country needs, evidence, specialists, and financing options, making it easier to build focused, long-term partnerships with the potential to grow.

Different partners bring different advantages. Philanthropy can support early innovation, take risks, build local capacity, and help prepare ideas for larger public or private investment. Governments and development institutions bring policy reach, country relationships, technical knowledge, and long-term financing. Together, these capabilities can move effective approaches from pilot to scale.

Knowledge Partners

MDB Network

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Get in touch to learn about the Hub, our missions, and how you can get involved.

wbgphilanthropy@worldbankgroup.org