GLG partners with some of the world’s leading philanthropic intermediaries and impact funds.
Foundations turn to GLG for insights to support grantmaking and evaluate mission-aligned investments. Nonprofit advisors work with us to inform landscape assessments, in-depth research, and client work. We also work with impact investors that seek to maximize both financial and social returns.
Through these partnerships, we help design and implement new philanthropic interventions and advance innovative financing solutions for social change.
GLG Member Interactions connect you with experts in specific topics, businesses, or industries through calls, private meetings, placements, or expert witness services.
GLG Surveys help you meet your research objectives by delivering a full spectrum of insights from the world’s most diverse source of first-hand B2B expertise.
GLG Integrated Insights combine several offerings to address your broader needs, including market assessments, company research studies, and competitive landscape analyses, all led by a team member with deep industry knowledge.
GLG Qualitative provides you with in-person or virtual focus groups, workshops, discussion panels, moderated calls, or other insight-gathering experiences with Network Members.
GLG Events bring the world’s leading experts together to share perspectives and discuss industry trends and implications through virtual and live roundtables, webcasts, teleconferences, and other interactive conversations.
We’ve worked closely with The Bridgespan Group (TBG), a leading advisor to nonprofits and NGOs, philanthropists, and investors since 2013. TBG consultants use GLG to engage experts across sectors and geographies through phone consultations, focus groups, and in-person and virtual events, gaining insights to inform their deliverables and recommendations to TBG clients.
Example projects include:
- Talking to utility providers, medical professionals, and environmental scientists about the diverse impacts of nuclear waste discharge from power plants.
- Learning from oral health experts to identify high-impact opportunities to create systems change.
- Speaking with futurists to survey major emerging threats to human safety, size the risk of these threats, and understand opportunities to address them.
We have worked with several teams at a leading private foundation since 2015. For example, grantmaking teams have turned to GLG to deepen their knowledge in specific program areas and to explore interventions in new geographies, and the foundation’s program-related investments (PRI) team has worked with GLG to evaluate mission-aligned investments – from thesis development to research to post-investment support.
Example projects include:
- Leveraging first-hand expertise during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to uncover gaps in response and recovery efforts.
- Talking to experts in battery storage to learn how to improve access to electricity in under-resourced settings.
- Understanding the legal and regulatory landscape of impact investing in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Researching antimicrobial resistance products and drug development timelines in the U.S.
We have worked with Social Finance, a nonprofit that leverages financing and funding tools to drive change, in partnership with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors since 2015. The Social Finance team has leveraged GLG’s network and experts to align incentives and mobilize capital to drive social progress.
Example projects include:
- Speaking to administrators of jail-discharge programs to inform an anti-recidivism initiative.
- Understanding best practices for targeted nurse hiring to develop an eldercare strategy.
- Speaking to community college faculty and administrators to design a community college and workforce partnership for a client.
We have worked with BonVenture, a leading high-impact investment firm based in Europe, since 2019. The firm, like other clients in this space, turns to GLG to inform investments designed to generate not just financial returns, but also clear and measurable social impact.
Example projects include:
- Understanding how to leverage digital solutions to empower patients in medical care.
- Speaking with experts about the markets for vehicle charging infrastructure and energy storage.
- Developing a market overview of the smart meter and submetering sector in Europe.
- Understanding best practices in sustainable food service.
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