Sponsors of traditional DAFs expect you to figure out how to use philanthropic capital for transformative change, with little to no support or partnership.

MSC and our partners bring years of activism and social transformation experience, perspective, and insight to help direct assets quickly to credible organizations and movements with deep community accountability. MSC facilitates distributions from DAFs in an equitable and community-centered manner that recognizes and addresses systemic barriers that have historically impacted access to philanthropy. We can partner with you at a pace that meets your needs; from full distribution of DAF funds to targeted suggestions. 

Money sitting in traditional DAFs is not driving change; money should be deployed faster to accelerate deep impact.

Rather than having funds sit in DAF accounts, at MSC we encourage DAF donors to actively distribute funds to organizations and movements to address and combat societal inequities. To facilitate movement, MSC applies and manages a 25% minimum annual distribution requirement of all DAFs, and encourages donors to advise annual distributions beyond the applicable minimum.

Traditional DAF fees often fund financial organizations and that feels misaligned. 

At MSC, your DAF fees amplify our transformative work as a trusted, BIPOC-led, community-accountable steward of the progressive movement ecosystem. Fees are fully aligned with the change you are hoping to catalyze, and will resource innovation that allows us to offer more unique services to our partners.

The client experience of traditional DAFs can be transactional and unfulfilling.

MSC’s DAF program offers an onramp into right relationship and Beloved Communities with movement leaders, ecosystem stewards, other capital stewards, community stewards, and communities. In order to better support donors in achieving their philanthropic goals, MSC and our capital partners provide programming for DAF donors, educating on topics, such as equitable grantmaking strategies, and providing updates to donors from MSC grantees, so you too can be a part of the impact journey.

You believe community leaders who are closest to the problems hold the most effective solutions, but most DAFs are administered by traditional financial institutions that don’t bring deep relationships to community partners.

By partnering with MSC to create a Community Advised Fund (CAF) or by contributing to an existing CAF, you can accelerate a Just Transition to a more equitable society by shifting the stewardship and control of capital and assets into the hands of communities. An example of a CAF at MSC is the Good Life Pledge DAF.