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Collaboration opportunities

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Women Leaders in Corporate Foundations

A network designed to bring together women who lead corporate foundations.
May 22, 2025
UK-wide
Existing collaboration
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Camden Giving – Shifting Power Through Participatory Grantmaking

Camden Giving is an independent charity working to end local poverty and inequality in Camden. We use participatory grantmaking to fund fair, community-led change.
April 22, 2025
London
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Camden Anti-Racist Steering Group

Uncovering racial injustice in Camden to drive change and fund solutions led by the community
April 22, 2025
London

Events

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Politics with a small p: how can funders engage?
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July 14, 2025

Politics with a small p: how can funders engage?

Join EFN for a session on how funders can effectively engage with politics
Online
DEI learning series: accountability & stakeholder engagement
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July 16, 2025

DEI learning series: accountability & stakeholder engagement

Join this interactive session to explore practical stakeholder engagement and equitable practices
Online
Social Justice Funders Group meeting
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July 22, 2025

Social Justice Funders Group meeting

The theme for the session will be exploring technology to support social change
In person

Collaboration case studies

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Progress driven by passion

Collaboration doesn’t happen overnight, but passionate and committed individuals can make all the difference in keeping up momentum. Carla Marshall tells us how setting up a ‘Task Force’ helped a group of regional funders to simplify and align their application forms.

November 1, 2023

I’ve seen an improved quality of applications since adopting the Yorkshire Common Application Form, with less need to go back to groups with follow-up questions.

Carla Marshall

We’ve already had several funders reach out about joining our collective because they saw it on the Funders Collaborative Hub

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Gaia Brignone
Future Mental Health Collective

Not all funders can nor should do the same things - but we need to better understand how we all fit together

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Duncan Shrubsole
Director of Policy, Communications and Research, Lloyds Bank Foundation

Our report launch was well-attended, including some people we don’t usually have at our events, so I’m sure that having it on the Funders Collaborative Hub was a good way of expanding our reach

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Anna Camilleri
Programme Manager, Migration Exchange

Blog

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Beyond individual trade-offs: what if funders focused on what they can do, rather than what they can’t?

Despite increased levels of grant-making, foundations face soaring demand and are painfully aware of their limitations as individual institutions. Thinking collectively can enable funders to contribute to more ambitious goals that no organisation could achieve alone.

July 1, 2025

June 26, 2025

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The Power of Connection: How Funder Networks Strengthen Our Impact

Clare Beavan, Foundation and Community Investment Manager at DWF Foundation, discusses the benefits of being a member of funder peer networks, including Women Leaders in Corporate Foundations and the Merseyside Charitable Trusts Group.

June 10, 2025

June 10, 2025

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Three questions that will help us plan the future of the Funders Collaborative Hub

Jim Cooke shares our plans to learn about how we can improve the Hub's impact, engagement and sustainability, and some of the ways you can get involved.

May 1, 2025

April 24, 2025

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Funder collaboration toolkit

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1. Clarify the case for collaboration

The Advantage Articulator can help you decide if collaboration is worthwhile.

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5. Develop a shared purpose

The Purpose Crafter will help you define your collaboration's purpose and scope.

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9. Collaboration resource library

The Library contains links to additional resources and reading about funder collaboration.

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