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Impact Alliance: West of England

The Impact Alliance seeks to proactively tackle pressing community issues in the West of England through an innovative, collaborative and strategic funding approach.
October 1, 2024
South West
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Collaborative funding for conservation internships

An opportunity for funders to collaborate together, and in partnership with the Institute of Conservation, to support conservation internships in specialist areas deemed 'at risk'.
August 21, 2024
UK-wide
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Power of Pop Fund

A pooled fund taking bold approaches to bolster the pop culture for social justice field in the UK
October 31, 2024
UK-wide

Events

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Trauma Informed Grantmaking Community of Practice meeting 3
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November 7, 2024

Trauma Informed Grantmaking Community of Practice meeting 3

The third meeting of the trauma informed grantmaking community of practice - an opportunity to meet other funders in this space and share learning.
Online
Surrey Family Foundations Network event - November 2024
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November 13, 2024

Surrey Family Foundations Network event - November 2024

Anyone involved in running a family foundation or trust can attend this event, which will be particularly focused on ‘succession planning’.
Online

Latest case study

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Progress driven by passion

Collaboration doesn’t happen overnight, but passionate and committed individuals can make all the difference in keeping up momentum. Carla Marshall tells us how setting up a ‘Task Force’ helped a group of regional funders to simplify and align their application forms.

March 13, 2024

I’ve seen an improved quality of applications since adopting the Yorkshire Common Application Form, with less need to go back to groups with follow-up questions.

Carla Marshall

We’ve already had several funders reach out about joining our collective because they saw it on the Funders Collaborative Hub

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Gaia Brignone
Future Mental Health Collective

Not all funders can nor should do the same things - but we need to better understand how we all fit together

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Duncan Shrubsole
Director of Policy, Communications and Research, Lloyds Bank Foundation

Our report launch was well-attended, including some people we don’t usually have at our events, so I’m sure that having it on the Funders Collaborative Hub was a good way of expanding our reach

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Anna Camilleri
Programme Manager, Migration Exchange

Blog

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The Collaboration Circle: here’s how we can shift the dial on funding

Helen Mathie, Director of Policy & Partnerships at London Funders, explains how their new Collaboration Circle will work: providing the space and infrastructure to enable funders to pool funding and work alongside civil society to design and deliver how this should be used

October 28, 2024

October 22, 2024

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The power of collaboration in tackling poverty

The Middlesbrough Collaboration offers a powerful example of how collaborative grant-making and co-production can drive systemic change and create sustainable impact. Polly Trenow, Co-head of Local Programmes at Turn2us, explains the model and its achievements to date.

October 28, 2024

October 16, 2024

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Prevention into Action: An opportunity to collaborate for upstream homelessness prevention

As the national membership charity for the homelessness sector, Homeless Link are bringing together a coalition of funders to explore how resources can be shifted from emergency responses to more preventative ones.

September 16, 2024

September 13, 2024

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Funder collaboration toolkit

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1. Clarify the case for collaboration

The Advantage Articulator can help you decide if collaboration is worthwhile.

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5. Develop a shared purpose

The Purpose Crafter will help you define your collaboration's purpose and scope.

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9. Collaboration resource library

The Library contains links to additional resources and reading about funder collaboration.

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