| AFE | Association of Family and Corporate Foundations |
| AVPA | African Venture Philanthropy Association |
| AVPN | Asian Venture Philanthropy Network |
| BE2 | Building Evidence in Education |
| BMGF | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| BRAC | Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CEPI | Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations |
| CGAP | Consultative Group to Assist the Poor |
| CIFF | Children’s Investment Fund Foundation |
| CLO | Chief Learning Officer |
| CNY | Chinese Yuan Renminbi (currency of the People’s Republic of China) |
| COP21 | 21st Conference of the Parties (2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris) |
| CPI | Consumer price index |
| CRS | OECD’s Creditor Reporting System |
| CSR | Corporate social responsibility |
| DAC | OECD Development Assistance Committee |
| Dafne | Donors and Foundations Networks in Europe |
| DCD | OECD Development Co-operation Directorate |
| DEV | OECD Development Centre |
| DIME | Development Impact Evaluation |
| EdTech | Education technology |
| EFC | European Foundation Centre |
| ESG | Environmental, social and governance |
| ETFs | Exchange traded funds |
| EU | European Union |
| EVPA | European Venture Philanthropy Association |
| FDI | Foreign direct investment |
| FI | Financial instrument |
| GEI | Global Evaluation Initiative |
| GIIN | Global Impact Investing Network |
| HRDN | Human Rights and Democracy Network |
| IATI | International Aid Transparency Initiative |
| IMM | Impact Measurement and Management |
| IPPI | International Policies and Politics Initiative |
| IRS | Internal Revenue Service (of the United States) |
| IS-FSD | Impact Standards for Financing Sustainable Development |
| i2i | Impact Evaluation to Development Impact |
| KIX | Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange |
| M&E | Monitoring and evaluation |
| MEL | Monitoring, evaluation, and learning |
| MfSDR | Managing for Sustainable Development Results |
| MRI | Mission-related investments |
| NCDs | Non-communicable diseases |
| netFWD | OECD Network of Foundations Working for Development |
| NGO | Non-governmental organisation |
| NONIE | Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation |
| Norad | Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation |
| NPO | Non-profit organisations |
| ODA | Official development assistance |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OSF | Open Society Foundations |
| PAWHR | Philanthropy Advancing Women’s Human Rights |
| PIRLS | Progress in International Reading Literacy Study |
| PISA | OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment |
| PISA-D | OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment for Development |
| PBO | Public benefit organisation |
| R&D | Research and development |
| RBM | Result-based management |
| R3 Coalition | Response, Recovery, and Resilience Investment Coalition |
| RWJF | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
| SDG | Sustainable Development Goal |
| SFSD | Sawiris Foundation for Social Development |
| SII | Social impact investing |
| SLE | Strategic learning and evaluation |
| SLM | Strategic Learning Manager |
| STD | Sexually transmitted disease |
| TALIS | OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey |
| THK | Tri Hita Karana |
| 3ie | International initiative for impact evaluation |
| TIMSS | Trends in Mathematics and Science Study |
| TV | Television |
| UBI | Universal basic income |
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| UNPRI | United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| US | United States of America |
| USD | United States dollar |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| WDF | World Diabetes Foundation |
| WFP | World Food Programme |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WINGS | Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support |
Private Philanthropy for Development – Second Edition
Data for Action