The story
History
Global Philanthropy Group was founded in 2006 by Maggie Neilson, Trevor Neilson and Ann Kelly.
In 2017, Global Philanthropy Group was acquired by Charity Network, joining digital fundraising companies Charitybuzz and Prizeo. The firm played a key role in advising on the creation of the Make it Right Foundation. Neilson and Nina Killeen worked with Pitt to launch Make It Right, a foundation for rebuilding New Orleans’s Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina. The Make It Right Foundation has been much criticized for building substandard housing for low income residents in New Orleans. In 2022, the Foundation paid $20.5 million to homeowners to settle a class action lawsuit.
Founders
Maggie Neilson is a founding board member of the Center for Women & Democracy, sits on the Parent Revolution Board and the New Leadership Board for the International Women's Health Coalition. She spoke at the 2014 South by Southwest Interactive Conference about feminism, philanthropy and technology.
Trevor Neilson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the advisory boards of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation, the Los Angeles Police Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health and the Genocide Intervention Network. Trevor was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and was a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Trevor speaks frequently about the topic of philanthropy, including panels at the TEDxWomen conference and American Express Luxury Summit. He previously wrote a column for the Huffington Post about philanthropy and other topics. Trevor is also the co-founder and CEO of i(x) investments a permanently capitalized, multi-strategy impact investing platform.
From Wikipedia’s article on Global Philanthropy Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3