Tracey Gyateng offers a write up and reflection on our event, which aimed to inspire funders and philanthropists to think harder about the value of their data and how they might effectively share it, to inform decision-making, avoid duplication and address emerging needs and gaps in their responses to Covid-19

4 December 2020 - Cath Dovey, Co-Founder of The Beacon Collaborative and member of the Hub's Strategy Group, explores the response of individual independent philanthropists to Covid-19, and suggests how the Hub could connect philanthropists to other funders for a collaborative response

A write up of our event with an expert panel from the Funders Forums for Jersey, Bristol and Northern Ireland sharing their expertise and insights on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to aligning or pooling funds, converging strategies and sharing operations or governance.

27 November - ​​​​​​​The Foundation Design Lab launching an open enquiry to find opportunities for greater collective awareness, interdependence and action amongst those investing in better youth mental health outcomes in the UK.

A write up of our event with Global Dialogue and the Institute for Voluntary Action Research on the must- and mustn't-haves of funder collaboration.

13 November - Thea Monk, Project Manager for Greater Manchester Funders Forum at GMCVO, reflects on the collaboration that brought together the Forum in response to Covid-19, and the value of creating a space for in depth conversations between funders.

6 November 2020 - The Community Foundation Wales team spent time talking and listening to over 100 community groups and charities from across Wales. The learnings from these conversations have recently been published and will be discussed at an upcoming webinar. Andrea Powell, Director of Programmes (Deputy Chief Executive) at Community Foundation Wales, explores the report and its findings.

4 November 2020 - The Hub is now live, with an initial programme of events and a pilot web platform launching today

14 October 2020 - We're delighted that Rob Abercrombie is joining the Funders' Collaborative Hub as project lead until the end of the year, to oversee its launch and initial delivery phase. Rob was until recently director of transformation at Royal Foundation, and was previously director of research at NPC. Rob will be working with Ab Brightman who leads on engagement with funder collaborations, and joins the existing project group team, which has met weekly since May.