Accelerating funding for systems change
An article was published in The Philanthropist about our collaborative initiative ‘Funding Systems Change’.
“For most of us, the situation we’ve been living in for the last two years has undeniably triggered a lot of self-reflection: about the way we live, work, connect with others, etc. It has also given us an experience of what it’s like to fight the symptoms of a social problem (attempts to flatten the curve to keep hospitals working so everyone can be attended to) and pushed us to innovate: teleworking becoming the norm in many companies, school classes happening online, travelling mostly domestically, and so on.
Foundations are no exception. Because of the urgency, they too innovated, for instance by trusting project holders more – less supervision, less reporting. They also deepened their questioning of current practices. ‘Is our work addressing the root causes of social and environmental problems?’ For many, the answer was no.”
Read the full article here.
