Introducing P150 Co-Lab, P150 Search, and P150 Field Notes.
For the last four years, we’ve been building the most trusted room in philanthropy.
Hundreds of advisors and practitioners across every issue area, geography, and giving strategy—helping each other think better, move faster, and serve donors more effectively.
Along the way, we kept hearing the same three questions:
We have an idea that could really help P150 members—how do we build it together?
We’re looking for a very specific person—who does P150 know?
I just left a major conference—how do I bring the best of what I heard back to this community?
Today, we’re answering all three.
We are introducing three new ways to engage with P150: a way to build with us, a way to hire and find experts through us, and a way to share what you’re learning across the network.
P150 Co-Lab
P150 Search
P150 Field Notes
Here is how each one works—and how you can jump in right now in under sixty seconds.
1. P150 Co-Lab
We know what our members are wrestling with. You know what your organization is uniquely good at. Tell us what we should build together.
Until now, most P150 partnerships started the same way: we designed a program and looked for partners to support it. P150 Co-Lab opens a second front door.
If your organization—or a partner you work with—sees a real need among philanthropic advisors and the donors they serve, pitch us the solution. It could be a multi-part learning series, a curated group of experts, office hours, a practical tool, a funder immersion, or a small convening.
You bring the subject expertise, execution capacity, and a plan to resource the work (partner-funded, jointly funded, or externally underwritten). P150 brings our understanding of member needs, curation, facilitation, and network learning. And our cardinal rule never changes: we never sell access to members. Every Co-Lab must first pass one test—would we offer this to our community if there were no funding attached?
Have an idea? Don’t write a ten-page proposal. Send us a 60-second pitch check on the Co-Lab page.
2. P150 Search
Finding names is easy. Finding the right person is hard. Ask P150.
Almost every search in philanthropy still begins with "Who do you know?" That works when the right person happens to be in your immediate circle—and fails when exceptional talent sits one degree outside it.
After four-plus years of building P150, our real asset isn’t just a large network. We know the people in it. We know what they’ve actually built, how they work, where they have deep expertise, and whether they have capacity for something new.
Members will always swap referrals and post roles for free in the Google Group. P150 Search is for when you want P150 to do the active work of the search—whether you need a philanthropic advisor for a family, an executive director or first program officer for a foundation, a subject matter expert, or fractional project support. Tell us who you need on the P150 Search page, and Jody will help you define the scope, vet candidates across and beyond our network, and get to the right person faster—while helping great philanthropic talent get found.
3. P150 Field Notes
Be our eyes and ears in the field—and earn a P150 participation credit.
Not all valuable learning happens inside a P150 room. Every week, P150 members are at Skoll, Climate Week, regional gatherings, and issue briefings around the world. A single insight you hear in one room could change how a peer across the network advises a donor tomorrow.
P150 Field Notes is how we make knowledge travel across the network.
Next time you walk out of a relevant conference, webinar, or convening, drop five quick takeaways into the Field Notes form: what you heard and why it matters for P150 members. No formal report. Respect Chatham House rules. Every Field Note you share counts as one P150 engagement toward your annual participation commitment.
The Next Chapter of P150
Three tools. Zero bureaucracy. Built for the way this community actually works.
Build with us. Hire through us. Learn together.
Pick one and jump in—we can’t wait to see what you do with them.