“During stressful economic times and competing global crises – when most philanthropic dollars would be flowing to more pressing immediate issues – the need to support less mainstream causes is even greater."

Four of our members share their views on social purpose during periods of economic stress in this incredible Philanthropy Impact article. The big takeaway? Agency is key!

"Without health equity, we're never going to achieve gender equity."

Maverick Collective's Managing Director Rena Greifinger and Co-Chair Alex Idol sat down together with the Seneca's 100 Women to Hear podcast to talk about solving problems in global healthcare and investing with a feminist appreach.

Maverick Collective's Managing Director Rena Greifinger sits down with the team at We Are For Good to talk about taking a business approach to saving lives and providing real solutions to complex health problems.

Rena sat down with Yolanda F. Johnson, President and Founder of YFJ consulting, to talk about Maverick Collective's ethos of impactful giving through innovation and trust-based philanthropy to champion gender equity and women’s health.

Women in the collective undergo "transformational journeys ... where they become ... more informed, more strategic, more impactful in the way they think about the resources they have and the ways to use them to advance the issues they care about."

by Fadekemi Akinfaderin, Natalie Fellows, and Metsehate Ayenekulu

It’s time for local partners to lead

When we shift power and co-create, co-implement, and co-evaluate programming alongside local partners, we can advance people-powered health solutions and get us all closer to Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Locally-led models for feminist funding can get us there. Maverick Collective by PSI and Fòs Feminista are collaborating on a new feminist fund – Maverick Portfolio.

by Rena Greifinger

It’s time to give girls the power to design and determine the futures that they dream of, to fund with more flexibility and a learning mindset, and to invest in raising a generation of feminist boys that lift up girls—and one another—everywhere.

New York City in the second half of September is now a two-week festival attracting all those who deal with global challenges.

Often it’s about seeing and being seen.

Rena Greifinger takes a different view.

We are so excited to introduce this year’s Maverick Collective Summer Reading List. Since 2020, we have compiled this list to serve as another way to keep our community energized and connected, to provoke our thinking, and to introduce new voices that help shape our work and our perceptions of the world around us.

Maverick Collective Member Jess Jacobs; PSI Board Member, Dr. Michele Bratcher Goodwin; PSI’s Senior Clinical Advisor for Africa, Dr. Milly Kaggwa; and Anushay Hossain talk about the impact of U.S. foreign policy on women’s reproductive health and rights around the world, and much more.