
A modern approach to philanthropy
Robin Gibbs Philanthropy Advisors (RGPA) provides innovative philanthropic solutions and impact investment strategies to sophisticated individuals, intergenerational families, and emerging philanthropists from around the world.
We offer a highly tailored approach, working with our clients to distill their values and objectives, develop high-impact, purpose-driven solutions, structure diversified risk-adjusted impact and giving portfolios, and implement novel funding mechanisms.
Working at the intersection of wealth management and philanthropy, we forge long-term relationships with and for our clients and are committed to continuous assessment and benchmarking of impact investments and gifts. Our bespoke approach ensures that each client's strategy is individually tailored, forward-thinking, and executed with efficiency and impact.
RGPA is led by Robin Peterson Gibbs, a global philanthropic advisor and social investment strategist with three decades of experience in financial services, wealth management and philanthropy.
A former investment banker, Robin has advised institutional investors, corporate foundations, ultra-high net worth individuals and families on hundreds of millions of dollars of investments, grants and philanthropic gifts. She has lived and worked extensively in the U.S., Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
Prior to founding RGPA, Robin was the Executive Director of Family Philanthropy at Brown University with responsibility for select international principal level families and alumni and was a lead fundraiser for the $4.0 billion BrownTogether Campaign. Previously, Robin was an Executive Director in the Equities Division of Goldman Sachs working with several of the firm’s top global institutional asset management accounts. Robin started her career in International Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch.
Robin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration in Finance, cum laude, from Columbia Business School.
