The Diaspora Academy helps foundations, donor networks, and philanthropic advisors understand how diasporas give, where diaspora capital moves, and how to build giving channels that diaspora donors trust.
Explore the diaspora leaders elected in the 2026 midterms, from Congress to city councils and school boards, with sourced profiles, filters, and a results dashboard that stays live all year.
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This directory and guide gives your team sourced profiles of the diaspora leaders serving in office across America, with the frameworks and tools to engage them with care.
This data-driven guide maps the diaspora communities across the United States, so your institution can see where they live, lead, and build community.
This data-backed guide gives investors, funders, and institutions a full breakdown of diaspora capital and what it takes to partner with the diasporas who hold it.
This guide walks your leadership team through the approach The Diaspora Academy uses with foundations, companies, and public institutions to create diaspora partnerships that last.
This concise guide gives your team a clear, shared definition of diaspora, so you can see who your diaspora partners are and engage them with confidence.
See every guide, tracker, and assessment for institutions and individuals.
Our partners span multilateral organizations, national and state governments, philanthropic foundations, nonprofits, and private sector firms. Together they represent more than 25 institutional partnerships, more than 15,000 diaspora leaders engaged, and alumni and partners from more than 80 countries.
Diasporas invest time, talent, and treasure, and every one of those investments deserves a partnership built to match it.
The Diaspora Academy brings global diaspora data, field relationships, and practitioner experience to every funder engagement.
We show you how diaspora communities give: the causes they fund, the channels they trust, and the networks that move giving across borders, so your strategy reaches donors where they already give.
We research and author reports on a diaspora, a region, or an issue, built from TDA’s global diaspora data and field interviews and ready for your board, your program team, and your grantees.
We provide ongoing counsel as your diaspora strategy grows: board briefings, grantee reviews, and a trusted sounding board before major decisions.
We design and facilitate roundtables, donor circles, and learning sessions that bring diaspora leaders, funders, and practitioners to the same table with a clear agenda and real follow-through.
The Diaspora Academy speaks to funders, boards, and philanthropy networks on diaspora giving, diaspora capital, and the role of diasporas in development.
We partner with foundations on field-building: co-designing initiatives, strengthening diaspora organizations as grantees, and measuring what diaspora engagement delivers over time.
The Diaspora Academy partners with foundations and funders on programs that strengthen the social, economic, and civic impact of diaspora communities. Diasporas are members of civil society and critical stakeholders in the policies, economies, and communities they help shape, here and in their countries of origin. Our capacity-building programs invest in the leaders and organizations doing that work.
Diaspora advocacy trainings equip leaders and organizations to understand how policy is made, build coalitions, and engage decision-makers on the issues their communities care about, from city hall to federal policy.
We strengthen how diaspora organizations raise and steward resources, from individual giving and giving circles to institutional grants, so their programs grow on a stable foundation.
We help diaspora entrepreneurs and professionals turn their skills, networks, and capital into businesses, jobs, and knowledge-sharing partnerships that serve communities here and abroad.
We work with diaspora founders to design social enterprises, technology for good, and new impact models, with the plans and measures funders need to invest with confidence.
The Diaspora Academy designs every training around your strategy, for program staff, boards, and grantee cohorts alike. Choose the format that fits your institution, delivered in person or virtually.
We train your staff to understand diaspora communities, engage them with care, and bring diaspora partnership into their daily work.
Your leadership receives a focused briefing on the diaspora communities, data, and trends that matter to the decisions in front of you.
Interactive workshops give your team the frameworks and tools to design diaspora engagement and put it into practice together.
Immersive sessions take your team from a shared understanding of diasporas to a working plan for engaging them.
An informal lunch session opens a conversation across your organization about who your diaspora partners are and why they matter.
A presentation designed for your audience, whether a staff meeting, a board gathering, or a conference, delivered in one focused hour.
Diaspora philanthropy is the time, talent, and treasure diaspora communities give to causes in their countries of origin and in the places they live now. It moves through families, hometown associations, faith networks, giving circles, and formal foundations.
Diaspora donors bring local knowledge, trusted networks, and long-term commitment to the places they care about. Funders who partner with them reach communities with more precision and build giving channels that last.
We work with private and family foundations, donor networks, philanthropic advisors, and multilateral partners. TDA has trained diaspora changemakers representing over 80 countries.
Yes. We design trainings, convenings, and advisory support for grantee cohorts, and we partner on longer field-building initiatives with clear milestones.
Confidentiality is a cornerstone of our practice. We apply strict data protocols so that institutional insights, stakeholder maps, and strategic roadmaps stay secure and are shared with third parties only with your explicit authorization.
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