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Funder Collaboration Toolkit | The Library
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What is this resource?Who's it by? How could it help me?
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Other tools and toolkits
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Funder Collaboration: Unpacking the Toolkit CollaborateThis report gathers together existing tools and resources to help funders understand their field & funding environment, analyses their use, and identifies gaps. It contains a compendium of 35-40 tools to help funders understand their ecology and the role they can play within it.
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Systems Grantmaking Resource GuideGeofundersA very comprehensive guide to a wide range of tools and resources to support systems grantmaking, with a separate how-to guide for each of the 40 tools.
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Collective Awareness DesignGood Grantmaking Five canvas tools designed to support grantmakers looking to fund ecosystems with multiple actors to bring intention to how the process is designed. Includes tools to help build understanding and appreciation of each others' roles, build an agreement for working together, and define purpose and roles.
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Funder Collaboratives: why & how funders work togetherGrantCraft A guide on funder collaboratives, which includes basic types of funder collaborations, key challenges, questions to ask and answer at the start, and an collaboration assessment tool to see how you're doing together (plus case studies and examples)
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A Handbook for Funder CollaborationsJewish Funders NetworkContains a series of tools and resources for strategic co-funding, including: self-assessment tools for a funder considering a collaboration and a lead funder, a checklist for starting a collaboration, and a sample template MoU.
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Problem Definition tool Nesta A useful canvas-style tool help define problem, open up a problem and examine it from multiple angles, and explore the underlying factors.
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How to Define Your Purpose, Vision, Mission, Values and Key MeasuresNOBL Academy A guide and a template to help you define your purpose, vision, mission, values and key measures with a series of example statements for each.
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Creating Your Theory of ChangeNPCA comphensive and practical handbook outlining how to create a theory of change in ten steps.
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Engage: How Funders Can Support and Leverage Networks for Social ChangeRockerfeller Foundation & Monitor InstituteA guide to support funders decide whether and how to engage with a network, and include a range of tools and case studies.
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A guide to sharing channels using Slack Connect Slack A short guide outlining how to set up a shared Slack channel for your collaboration.
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The Partnering ToolbookThe Partnering Initiative A very comprehensive guide to partnering and cross-sector collaboration, with a wide range of tools that are relevant to funder collaborations.
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Desgining Comprehensive Partnering AgreementsThe Partnering Initiative A guide to using to the Partnering Agreement Scorecard, a comprehensive tool to support the development of a detailed partnering agreement. It comprises seven main categories of essential elements which partnership agreements should contain, with a further split in 28 sub-categories.
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Anticipating, managing and mitigating power imbalancesThe Partnering Initiative A tool desgined to help partners acknowledge, identify and explore sources of power and design appropriate mechanisms to address, and actions to mitigate, problematic power imbalances
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The Collaboration GuidebookTake NoteDesigned as a route map through your collaboration journey, the guidebook can be used by individual innovators, community projects or brand new initiatives. Each tool provides a structure to support you from the spark of a new idea to delivery and evaluating your work together.
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The MCF Partnership Framework ToolkitMasonic Charitable FoundationDeveloped by MCF's Impact and Evaluation team to serve as a comprehensive guide for identifying, establishing, nurturing, and transitioning partnerships on behalf of the MCF. Its primary goal is to cultivate highly successful partnerships.
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Research on effective funder collaboration
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Shifting Power: Exploring the value of pooled funds in the UK funding landscapeJoseph Rowntree FoundationExplores the opportunities and challenges of pooled funds in the UK context and sets out the key ingredients they need to be effective.
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Stronger Foundations: Funding Practices Association of Charitable FoundationsThe final report of ACF's Stronger Foundations initiative, it sets out explore and discuss what good funding practice looks like.
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A New Funder Ecology - A Blueprint for Action Collaborate An in-depth report on what good funder collaboration looks, which includes a typology of funder collaboration, a list of collaborative behaviours, a set of diagnostic tools with a series of questions and suggested things to do like an 'ecology audit' or 'collaboration readiness' self-assessment.
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How Funder Collaborations Flourish: Lessons from the Common Core Standards Education First A guide to help education funders create more effective collaboration, but with broader applicability and lessons for the funding sector. Include a decision-making matrix and a number of case studies.
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Funder Collaboration: Key ingredients and ones to avoidFunders Collaborative Hub A blog and video presentation featuring insights and lessons from IVAR, Global Dialogue, ACF and The Funders' Collaborative Hub about the most ingredients for effective funder collaboration.
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Working in Place: Collaborative Funding in Practice Institute for Voluntary Action Research In depth learning report about the key elements of collaborative funding, based on 5 case studies of place-based approaches to funder collaboration.
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Funder Collaboration: Is it Worth It? Institute for Voluntary Action Research A short report summarising learning and success factors from the Child Sexual Exploitation Funders' Alliance
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The possible, not the perfect: Learning from funder responses to emergencies Institute for Voluntary Action Research This reports how funders responded to three events - the Manchester Arena bombing, the London Bridge attack, and the Grenfall Tower fire - to examine what they did differently to draw a number of lessons and learning for the field.
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Thinking About… CollaborationInstitute for Voluntary Action Research A research report exploring how collaborative working can be a response to particular challenges, common challenges of collaborative working, and a series of responses to those challenges.
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The Power of People, Partnerships and PlaceLondon FundersA learning report summarising the lessons from six years of London's Giving and work with Place Based Giving Schemes.
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Looking beyond London: UK and international perspectives on place-based fundingLondon Funders/RenaisiLearning from approaches to place-based funding from different cities in the UK and internationally. When is place the right approach to take, and what are its limitations? How can we understand the real power dynamics in a place, and how can we re-think the way we use ours? Is scale an issue, or a distraction?
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Power and the Changing Role of IntermediariesNonprofit QuarterlyArticle exploring the various forms and functions of grant-making 'intermediaries' and considerations for funders when partnering with intermediaries.
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Collaborating for a Cause: How cause-related networks multiply the impact of philanthropyNPCA research report focusing on 'cause-related networks' with a lot of learning relevant to funder collaboration, and includes case studies and a list of funder networks.
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Lessons in Funder Collaboration Packard Foundation A learning report outlining what the Packard Foundation has learned about working with other funders. Includes a framework with five different models of funder collaboration, a series of strategic and practical considerations, and '7 rules for the road'.
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Five Guidelines for Successful Funder Collaborations Stanford Social Innovation Review A list of five lessons on how funders can effectively work together to amplify their resources and impact
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How Philanthropic Collaborations Succeed, and Why They FailStanford Social Innovation Review Summary of a study analysing 10 successful funder collaboratives and 15 that had faltered or failed, highlighting how having a clear 'Primary Investment Thesis' can help collaboratives achieve value
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Five Models of Philanthropic Collaboration The Bridgespan Group A short report outlining and exploring five different models of funder collaborations.
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What Makes Funder Collaboration Effective?Stanford Social Innovation Review Based on a review of funder collaboration between members of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, this article describes five factors that are integral to the chances of collaborative success.
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Resources for great meetings
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How to Run Inclusive MeetingsAtlassian A useful guide on how to run inclusive meetings, which can be used to create an environment that encourages diversity of opinion and participation from all attendees.
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Ultimate meeting checklist BeenoteA more comprehensive meeting checklist that covers what to do before, during and after a meeting.
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A checklist for planning your next big meetingHarvard Business Review A short meeting checklist with 15 questions to help you plan effective meetings.
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How to create the perfect meeting agendaHarvard Business Review A simple and short guide from HBR to help create better agendas for your collaboration meetings
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Meeting Facilitation ToolkitMural A comprehensive and in-depth toolkit covering why meetings fail, a facilitation growth plan, icebreakers, tips for planning better meetings, templates and frameworks, and more.
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Online warm-ups and energizers Mural A guide to doing online warm-ups and energizers and a selection quick and easy to use exercises.
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Icebreaker RangeAn ice-breaker tool that contains over 300 questions designed to build trust, connectedness and psychological safety. You can change your ‘difficulty setting’ based on how well you already know each other.
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Ultimate guide to digital meetings SlackA useful and practical guide to remote meetings covers choosing the right online meeting tool, online etiquette, how to keep people engaged during online meetings, and more.
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