By Jenny Ekelund, Director of the Green Transition. This article was originally published in Alliance Magazine. Not every foundation boasts climate expert staff and trustees. Does that matter? Arguably not. If funders want to support high-impact climate collaborations, a healthy risk appetite, and a willingness to act with bravery, speed, and flexibility are far more […]
Climbing the partnership mountain
Photo by Khamkéo Vilaysing on Unsplash By Tom Harrison, TPI Programme Director Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” This simple but powerful insight applies to so many endeavours. If your objective is to climb a mountain, you study the route, make sure you have the equipment you need and […]
Trusted partnership: pushing the boundaries of traditional grant-making and trust-based philanthropy
By Anna Hirsch-Holland, Programme Director for Funder Impact Trust-based philanthropy has been critiqued for emphasizing unrestricted funding to the detriment of ‘criteria- and data-driven’ (thereby ‘unbiased’) funding[1]. Its defenders argue that it is about much more than unrestricted funding, highlighting also the streamlined paperwork, mutual learning, and transparency between funders and non-profits. They also emphasize […]
What I learned from philanthropy immersion at Philea Forum 2022
By Anna Hirsch-Holland As a relative newbie to the field of philanthropy, Philea Forum has been an opportunity to get to know this quite particular world more intimately – beyond the superficial facts that its people are very well dressed and its events involve excellent canapés. It’s helped me to understand better the unique role […]
How can we accelerate multi-stakeholder partnering to tackle waves of urgent threats?
As part of the TPI Blog series, we welcome this piece by Susanne Salz of Partnerships2030 and Darian Stibbe of TPI. The article considers what we can learn from multi-stakeholder-partnerships which developed during the Covid-19 pandemic for other partnerships now and in future. It is equally if not more urgent and important to address another global threat – climate change – with the mindset of rapid partnering applied during the pandemic.
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