Pushing the boundaries of funding
Funding and philanthropy culture has an enormous effect on charities, the people and causes they support, and the charity sector as a whole.
So it’s important to stop and think: What role is the funder-grantee power balance playing in your work? Are other funders taking innovative approaches that you could learn from?
By challenging your existing funding practice, and exploring new approaches to charitable giving, our insights can help your money, time and effort go further.
See how pushing the boundaries of funding could help maximise your impact.
Featured resources and commentary on innovative funding
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More than grants collection: Pushing the boundaries of funding
As a country we face huge challenges. These challenges present questions for everyone who funds charities. It’s time to ask whether charitable foundations in the UK are doing enough—and are doing the right things—to support the voluntary and community sector.
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Making your funding go further
To really drive change, funders must support their grantees’ impact practice, and they must examine and improve their own work.
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Systems change: A guide to what it is and how to do it
Systems change has been attracting the attention of those in the social sector who want to deal with the root causes of problems. This guide has been produced to plug a gap in the systems change literature—providing accessible material and recommendations for action.
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How should funders respond to the social impacts of the environmental crises?
Join us as we share findings from the Everyone’s Environment programme’s
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What is Open Philanthropy?
A conversation between NPC and Citi about learning from the Open Philanthropy programme.
