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High-Impact Giving Opportunities

Since 2008, Arabella Advisors has been identifying High-Impact Giving Opportunities to share with the rest of the philanthropy community and with donors everywhere, whether they are able to give $100, $100,000 or $1 million. Our selection criteria require that these opportunities:

Address urgent needs;
Lack the attention they deserve; and
Provide donors with the chance to have a significant impact.

Until 2010, we released our High-Impact Giving Opportunities as an annual list. Recently, we began releasing them individually, to make them more timely and useful.

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Childhood Obesity: Increasing Impact through Early Engagement

One-third of American children are overweight or obese, and obesity in childhood can adversely affect health for decades. Many current efforts to fight obesity focus on school-aged children, but recent studies suggest that focusing on younger children in childcare environments and at home can make a significant impact. By encouraging healthy eating and exercise programs at childcare facilities and supporting at-risk families in the communities they care about, donors can help address or even prevent childhood obesity.

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Update:

Climate Change Advocacy

Recognizing recent changes in the political environment, we have updated our previous High-Impact Giving Opportunity on climate advocacy with new opportunities for philanthropists. Donors focused on limiting climate change have made impressive strides regionally in reducing coal emissions, improving energy efficiency and promoting renewable energy sources. To read our climate change update, click here.

Disaster Response: Helping Revive the Gulf Coast Economy

America's Gulf Coast faces long-term economic challenges that a string of recent disasters, from Hurricane Katrina to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have only made worse. Now, philanthropists have a unique opportunity for impact in the region. By acting now, donors can leverage their own funds and help ensure that money in the $20 billion fund BP is creating following the oil spill is spent wisely -- that those funds help the Gulf Coast not only recover from this latest catastrophe but also rebuild for the future.

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Other Opportunities:

Mission Investing: Leveraging Additional Assets for Community Development (2010)

Disaster Response: Investing in Recovery After Initial Relief (2009)

Conflict Prevention: Facilitating Trust-Building to Prevent Violent Conflicts (2008)