Aims and activities
Aims and questions
Aims and activities
Our funding practices do not always lead to the equitable outcomes we hope for. As part of our efforts to address this, Wellcome’s Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (CEDI) team worked with Science Practice to identify innovative practices that other organisations have used to address inequities in funding outcomes.
We explored the practices of many different funders working with many different sectors, populations, communities, geographies and scales of implementation. We also looked beyond funding into other domains to see what was being done to improve equity, diversity and inclusion outcomes within recruitment, university admissions and prize mechanisms.
The Equitable Funding Practice Library brings together repeatable ideas that can be mixed and matched or applied individually to solve common challenges in reducing and eliminating inequitable funding outcomes.
How to get involved
We know many in the wider funding community are looking to see meaningful change with respect to equity, diversity and inclusion in their funding processes and outcomes.
We recognise that many of us will be at different starting points and have different contexts in relation to how we fund, but we believe that a community of equitable funding practice can benefit us all and look forward to continuing the conversation on understanding our practices, our challenges, what worked has worked well and what has not worked so well.
To suggest practices to add to the Equitable Funding Practice Library, share your experience using this resource, or learn more about this project, contact Gearóid Maguire at Wellcome or Andrea Wong at Science Practice.
