Philanthropy Team Captain
About Prevail and Philanthropy Team Goals
Prevail is a new foundation dedicated to pursuing bold goals. We set a social change goal and approach; coordinate a group of philanthropists who have a similar vision; and then make grants with high levels of in-field support. Rather than choosing a general issue area (e.g. education), each pooled fund chooses a simple, targeted goal. For example, our first fund aims to improve foundational education for over 27.5 million Grade 1-3 children, across 11 national governments in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Prevail provides patient capital to implementing organizations – primarily in the form of grants that grow over time as our partner organizations scale. In addition to funding, Prevail also offers on-the-ground support that helps orgs to scale, such as strategic planning, systems, recruitment, and talent development services.
Our roots are in the field. Our Co-Founding Board members have a track record of scaling social enterprises that together employ more than 15,000 staff and manage annual budgets exceeding $500M.
In our first 3 years, we have:
Raised and disbursed $55M in funding to date, to support 27 partners across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, growing very quickly (we will deploy another
