TRANSFORM! works alongside foundations to ensure that they and their partnerships are designed and managed to deliver maximum impact. We help foundations unlock the full value of collaboration by embedding best-practice standards and building the capabilities needed for success. Our approach identifies gaps, strengthens systems, and equips teams with the skills to partner effectively, delivering impact that lasts.
Wellcome Trust: TPI is working as an ‘accompanying partner’ to Wellcome Trust’s Strategic Partnerships Team. Initiated through a ‘Fit for Partnering’ analysis to determine needs, TPI is helping to build up the partnering strategic approach, tools and processes (including around M&E) to help Wellcome to continue to excel at partnering.
Jacobs Foundation: TPI developed case studies of two Jacob partnerships, helping the foundation to take stock and draw out learning from their collaborations.
CIFF: TPI developed a training course to build many of the ‘soft’, human relationship-building skills needed to build equitable partnerships with grantees and beyond.
Porticus: TPI undertook a major piece of research, examining 14 of Porticus’s partnerships to understand a) in what ways and to what extent the partnerships were able to exploit collaborative advantage to deliver extra impact (i.e. more than the sum of their parts); and b) what were the enabling factors. A report is available below.
Laudes Foundation: this case study by TPI reveals how the Regenerative Production Landscape Collaboratives (RPLC) harness the power of multi-stakeholder partnerships to transform agricultural systems across four countries, creating sustainable livelihoods for farmers while regenerating ecosystems through innovative collaboration between government, business, and civil society organizations.
J&J Foundation: TPI undertook a ‘Fit for Partnering’ analysis of J&J Foundation to understand how to optimize it institutionally. To address the issues identified, we developed a partnership training course and a partnering support portal for J&J Foundation and J&J business staff, building their capabilities to develop more transformational partnerships.
Z Zurich: TPI undertook a Partnership Healthcheck of Z Zurich’s Flood Resilience Alliance (now the Climate Resilience Alliance), helping the Alliance to develop a new, cooperative operating model to maximise partnership value creation, leading to a step-change in the impact the Alliance could deliver.
