The Learning Philanthropy Framework brings together six interconnected components that help foundations understand what effective learning looks like in practice. Each component includes specific subcomponents that make learning more tangible—and easier to strengthen.

Learning Practices describe how philanthropies generate and apply knowledge. They include Internal Learning Processes, Learning with Partners, and Ecosystem Learning.

Accelerating Conditions make those practices possible and sustainable. Learning Leadership, Learning Culture, and Structure & Resources create the safety, space, and systems needed to turn learning into meaningful action.

Use the Learning Philanthropy Framework to:

• Build shared language: Create a common understanding of learning across your organization.
• Focus your growth: Identify where your team or foundation most needs to strengthen its learning practices.
• Understand your conditions: Surface the factors that enable—or inhibit—your organization’s ability to learn.