Magnify Community was a time-limited philanthropy innovation lab that sunset on September 30, 2021. Follow @TPWGiveBetter to learn about the next evolution of the Magnify Pledger community. More info and resources available on our site until March 2022:

It’s far too easy to ignore suffering & inequity around you if you always point your gaze elsewhere. And consider the value of arts, advocacy, education etc that can’t be reduced to a quant’s “lives saved” simplistic shortcut. Yes to portfolio & give local

Thank you again to everyone who partnered and engaged with us in this work, and who carry forward the movement for local giving in Silicon Valley. Together, we can make Silicon Valley a better place for all! #GiveLocalSV #GiveWhereYouLive

And explore our Medium to learn more about our work, including our series of learnings, Lessons for Local Philanthropy, detailing our goals, achievements, misses, takeaways, and hopes for the future of local giving in Silicon Valley:

Visit @siliconvalleycf to access our issue briefs, Housing Justice in Silicon Valley: An Action Plan for Donors, and Education Equity in Silicon Valley: Donor Pathways to Impact, along with other resources for local givers, NPOs, and community members:

You who read this are the future of the local giving movement in Silicon Valley. There truly is no limit to where this work can go, and we are filled with hope and excitement to see where you will take it. https://t.co/TGb5TI3mSx

Thus, we conclude this leg of the relay, our work as an organization, with love, gratitude, and fierce determination. Our deepest thanks to all of you who engaged with us and believe in our mission.

So, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, while Magnify as an organization is sunsetting, this is not the end of the work. It is not even the beginning of the end. It’s only the end of the beginning.

This collective good is about more than generosity — it is about justice, which requires more fundamental and substantial shifts in behavior, mindset, and resources.

We are all called to work together to recognize and use all of that abundance for the collective good as we look ahead.

We live in a land of astonishing abundance — for some it is material wealth, for others it’s an abundance of talent, generosity, imagination, or dreams for a better future.

This work could not be more important than it is at this moment, at the nexus of a lingering health crisis, housing crisis, racial justice reckoning, and climate crisis. And this comes at a time of civic fracturing and painful inequality.

We have left behind our tools, playbooks, learnings, and a robust ecosystem map that points donors and their advisors to the rich array of organizations that can help guide local givers on a journey to greater local giving. https://t.co/mP7qSfo2Fp https://t.co/ICm582AtZT

And every person who has taken this journey with us has the opportunity to serve as an ambassador for the local giving movement.

The tools and practices will be adapted and live on with our partners, like the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (@siliconvalleycf): https://t.co/VmoHptuKFh

As we shared this past spring, our Magnify Pledger community will grow within The Philanthropy Workshop (@TPWGiveBetter) and its new Silicon Valley Action Lab. https://t.co/288cBLDze5

We and the funders who backed this work intended from the start that this innovation lab would not last in perpetuity. In the true Silicon Valley spirit, our successful innovations are now ready for scale, and they will do so through the robust array of partners who work with us.

This initiative also produced many lessons for the field, which we have documented and shared with the public. https://t.co/KwjsMxV7JN https://t.co/r4L6MmhEd3

Our financial impact was substantial: the 40 high-capacity individuals and family foundations who took the Magnify Community Pledge increased their local giving by $35 million in 2020 alone, and pledged to increase their local giving by $47 million over three years.

Our experimentation generated both dollars for Silicon Valley nonprofits and learning for the social sector as a whole.