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Each month we publish how we’re doing against the objectives and targets we’ve set for the Funders Collaborative Hub. Below is a summary of the Hub’s progress in September.
Priority 1: Grow and develop our collaboration opportunities offer
Intended outcome: Funders are more connected, through using the Hub to share and engage with impactful collaboration opportunities
Indicators:
- Increase the number of collaboration opportunities shared via the Hub (2022 target: 50 collaboration opportunities added)
- Increase the number of funders actively using the Hub to search for opportunities
- Evidence of increased engagement between funders through using the Hub
- Evidence of the contribution of funder collaboration towards increased overall impact
Our progress:
Seven collaboration opportunities were added to the Hub in September. This brings the total number of opportunities added since January to 39, well on our way towards our full-year target of 50.
Four of the opportunities added in September were existing collaborations:
- The END Fund
- Funders for Race Equality Alliance
- Wiltshire and Swindon Funders Network
- Living Wage Funders network
The other three were emerging opportunities:
- Developing an arts funder network in the West Midlands
- Developing a programme addressing financial resilience for young people
- Assisting school staff in a financial crisis
After a drop in visits to our collaboration opportunity search page in August, this returned to more typical levels in September, with 1,283 views by 243 users.
September’s Top 10 most visited collaboration opportunities were:
- DEI Data Standard (300 views)
- Collaborative online grants portal for people in financial hardship (289 views)
- Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (133 views)
- Funders for Race Equality Alliance (95 views)
- Enterprise Grants Task Force (94 views)
- Assisting school staff in a financial crisis (70 views)
- Developing a programme addressing financial resilience for young people (65 views)
- Living Wage Funders network (48 views)
- Environmental Philanthropy Lab (41 views)
- Wiltshire and Swindon Funders Network (41 views)
Priority 2: Develop the Hub’s inspiration and influencing role
Intended outcome: Funders are informed and inspired by the Hub to collaborate more effectively.
Indicators:
- Number of views of Hub case studies and blogs (2022 target: 600 per month)
- Number of views of Hub toolkit content (2022 target: 150 per month)
- New funder collaborations are developed, informed by data and insights on needs, gaps and opportunities
Our progress:
In September there were 980 views of our blogs and funder collaboration case studies and 193 views of our Funder Collaboration Toolkit homepage.
These sections of our website have consistently performed well above our monthly targets, suggesting that funders value this in-depth content from the Hub.
September’s most viewed blogs:
- My successful "failed" collaboration (161 views)
- Meet the Strategy Group (106 views)
- Progress update - August 2022 (72 views)
September’s most viewed case studies:
- Humans at the heart (Future Mental Health Collective, 90 views)
- Growing Together (Farming the Future, 60 views)
- A good match (Enterprise Grants Task Force, 28 views)
If you have a viewpoint or some learning to share about funder collaboration, please get in touch about contributing to a blog or case study.
Priority 3: Integrate the Hub within the wider landscape and develop a sustainable model
Over the summer, we invited expressions of interest in joining the Hub’s Strategy Group. In September, we were delighted to announce that Elaine Wilson and Aleema Shivji are joining the group, to help us shape and deliver the next stage of the Hub’s development.
Our continued work to integrate the Hub into the wider landscape included attending meetings of the Beacon Collaborative Organisations Council, the Funders for Race Equality Alliance and Funders South West. We also attended the Scottish Grantmakers annual conference and published a blog reflecting on the learning from this.
There were 6,416 total page views of our website in September. Following a drop in August, this increased back to similar levels to June and July.
The reach of our other communication channels grew in August:
- 761 newsletter recipients (+4.7% vs August)
- 1,874 Twitter followers (+1.6% vs August).
Previous monthly updates
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We welcome all feedback on the Hub. Whether you're a funder, or anyone else with an interest in how funders can work together to make the world a better place, get in touch to let us know what we're doing well or what we can improve.
