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Funding freedom: what if all grants were unrestricted?

Funding freedom: what if all grants were unrestricted?

The whole concept of restricted funds in charities is out of date. It’s time it went.
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Nick Perks
Funding utopia when you’re already a free knowledge utopia

Funding utopia when you’re already a free knowledge utopia

Resource allocation within the Wikimedia movement
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Daria Cybulska
2030: How people in the lead became an operationalised reality…

2030: How people in the lead became an operationalised reality…

Back in the early 21st Century a set of colleagues — especially inspired by the thinking of Dawn Austwick (then CEO of the National…
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TSIP
A Mission isn’t much without a Role

A Mission isn’t much without a Role

When we pursue our own missions, we are weak in the face of challenges. When we play our best roles, anything is possible.
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Nick Stanhope
The Real Business of Raising Funds

The Real Business of Raising Funds

What can the charity sector learn from the business sector about vision-based funding?
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giles gibbons
From spaghetti junction to open, transparent grantmaking data

From spaghetti junction to open, transparent grantmaking data

At present, it’s not possible to find a complete dataset on all charitable grants provided in the UK. This means the huge financial flows…
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Rachel Rank
Imagine a world where grant funders thought more like venture capitalists

Imagine a world where grant funders thought more like venture capitalists

In 2018, $15 billion was invested globally into startups that were yet to generate any meaningful revenues, let alone turn a profit. The…
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Duncan Brown

Impact of the Future

The year is 2030: The impact measurement market has become too contrived. People had started measuring because it got them funding, and…
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TSIP

Make Grants, Then Ask For Applications

I’ve spent forty two years working in the voluntary sector and about thirty seven of them worrying about money. Grant seekers and grant…
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David Robinson
A Funding Utopia: what’s yours?

A Funding Utopia: what’s yours?

A Funding Utopia is a series of blogs and events that create a space to explore big, transformative ideas for UK grant funding.
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Nick Stanhope
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