WE GIVE TOGETHER

PHILANTHROPY OFF THE GRID.

Behind today’s global crises is a staggering reality: 2.1 billion people—one in four on earth—live in places marked by high or extreme fragility. In these hardest places, war, violence, and persecution are uprooting lives, deepening hunger, and concentrating poverty on a massive scale. Locally-founded, locally-led, “off the grid” ministries offer profound possibilities for meaningfully impacting a world that is increasingly contested, uncertain, and conflict prone.

SMALL IS BIG.

The best local ministries are innovative, resilient and catalytic, with no less commitment to excellence than their international peers. They pursue word and deed together, integrating compassionate action with verbal witness as modeled by Jesus. They serve people where others cannot, often multiplying through influence rather than building cost-intensive structures. For them, small is big. Call it the power of aggregation. Or the principle of five loaves and two fish. Or the mustard seed.

The best of the small is still rare, however. Organizations in hard places are often stretched operationally and under-capitalized, receiving only a sliver of direct global funding, as little as 2 to 4 percent. Why? Philanthropy lacks courage, favoring international organizations in safer contexts while overlooking many local ministries who are leading impactful journeys of change.

THREE PROMISES.

We Give Together offers three promises to its partners: capital, capacity and community. We are indebted to trusted advisors who bring deep experience, some of whom will provide coaching to frontline ministries while others will advise on ministry sourcing, portfolio selection and coaching strategies.