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Health philanthropy has reached an inflection point. Health care has never needed flexible, mission-focused capital more urgently. Donors have never possessed greater capacity to provide it. Yet a consequential distance remains between organizational need and philanthropic investment. The constraint may not be generosity but the way we practice philanthropy.

Today, an organization can exceed its fundraising goal and still leave philanthropic value unrealized. In Transformative Philanthropy, Betsy Chapin Taylor challenges health care leaders to move beyond a fundraising model built for a market that no longer exists. Today’s donors—particularly those capable of significant gifts—think more like social impact investors. They seek consequential ideas, credible strategies, disciplined execution and meaningful evidence of results.

This book unpacks a new operating system that connects the full philanthropic lifecycle—from idea to impact—and considers how philanthropy can be more effectively leveraged as a flexible source of strategic capital to accelerate innovation, expand mission and change lives.