#ShiftingFundingPractices
Shifting Funding Practices
We are Catalyst 2030 members and allies who are working to make the world a better and fairer place for everyone. We are calling on donors and funders to remodel their traditional practices to more effectively support grassroots organisations and sustainable social impact. We have co-written a letter that highlights the changes we are calling for. We invite all organisations working to improve the quality of people’s lives to sign it and join us in our open call to donors and funders.
Our world faces a cascading, connected set of pressing problems. To have any hope of making the world a better place by working towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we must more effectively confront the root causes of problems through transformative systems change. An increasing number of funders and organisations have realised that now is the time to advance global progress and find new ways of supporting change by shifting current funding/ finance practices and norms in the social sector. Organisations and individuals who have signed our letter and call to action below are inviting philanthropists of all types to embrace the following principles:
- Give multi-year, unrestricted funding
- Invest in capacity building
- Fund networks
- Create transformative rather than transactional relationships
- Build and share power
- Be transparent and responsive
- Simplify and streamline paperwork
- Offer support beyond the check
- Collaborate with other funders
- Embrace a systems mindset in your grant making
For Organisations Considering Signing the Open Letter
- Review the full letter below: An Urgent Invitation to Shift Funding Practices
- If you are a member of a social change organisation interested in adding your name to the letter, ask an authorised representative of your organisation to submit one of the forms:
- If you are unable to sign and would like to offer feedback explaining why contact: enablingenvironment@catalyst2030.net
- If you have questions contact: enablingenvironment@catalyst2030.net
An Urgent Invitation to Shift Funding PracticesAn Open Letter
We are now in a stage of our civilizational journey where our world faces a cascading and interrelated set of global challenges that threaten the future for people and the planet. From endemic poverty, racial and gender inequity, species extinction, and deforestation, to growing fascism, and the climate crisis, the combination of these co-occurring and overlapping challenges signals that we urgently need to fundamentally transform the entrenched systems underlying these major problems.
To have any hope of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and reversing the destructive trajectory facing people and the planet, we must more effectively address root causes of complex problems, rather than treating symptoms. This is possible if we transform policies, practices, customs, mindsets, power dynamics and resource flows to achieve a lasting impact on a local, national, and global level. This is the work known as systems change. It is a comprehensive approach to social change that seeks to address the complex, large-scale, and deep characteristics of social issues.
A key aspect of systems change is sustained collaboration. True systems change occurs when multiple players across sectors, disciplines, and social groups – including funders and movement leaders – work together towards common goals over extended timeframes.
While we encourage funders to explore different opportunities to finance projects that can lead to social good, including those that offer some financial return to investors, achieving effective systems change, particularly the many aspects that need grant funding, will require a powerful shift from traditional philanthropic approaches where:
- funders tend to rely on sources of expertise to understand social impact that may not center the leadership and lived experience of those who are closest to the issues we seek to address;
- most funding goes toward alleviating symptoms of failing systems rather than towards the longer-term work of understanding, addressing, and mobilising change to address root causes;
- project-specific funding is given in short-term allotments, which also often involves excessive paperwork, transactional power dynamics, and an overreliance on short-term metrics to evaluate success; and,
- application processes and criteria can lead to unhelpful competition among organisations instead of incentivising the types of collaborations that are needed to change systems.
An increasing number of funders and organisations are discovering that there is a real-time opportunity to advance global progress and model new ways of supporting change by shifting current funding practices that finance the social sector. These needed shifts span across multiple types of funders, including funding from private philanthropy, governments, and multilateral bodies.
The following principles outline what we, a large group of civil society organisations and systems change innovators, as well as many philanthropic thought leaders and funder allies, believe to be the most critical and effective practices funders need to adopt as we tackle the complex problems facing our world today.
We invite you to consider adopting the transformative grantmaking practices below. Given the powerful role of funders and donors in influencing the work and scope of organisations working on systemic issues, these shifts will better enable and empower the social sector and will foster multi-sectoral collaborations that work towards the types of systems changes that are urgently needed.
Principles
- Give Multi-Year, Unrestricted Funding: Addressing root causes of inter-connected systemic problems requires continuous adaptation and learning over the long-term. Trusting organisations with general operating funds for multiple years (at least three to five years, and preferably longer) allows them the flexibility to take the necessary long-term, iterative approach to tackling big, complex, systemic problems. This type of flexible investment frees up organisations to adapt to changing conditions and enables nonprofits to focus on their mission-critical work rather than focusing on where next year’s grants may be coming from. If a funder can only offer restricted project grants, make them multi-year and ensure they cover the actual direct (including staff salaries) and indirect costs of delivering impact (such as office rent and equipment). Consider providing more than enough for these costs to enable nonprofits to grow a surplus and reserves.
- Invest in Capacity Building. Good ideas are not enough. Help your programme partners to build core organisational capacity and be responsive to what they say they need most. Nonprofits need to build a diverse set of capacities, either in their organisation or through their partners, to bring collective strength and sustainability to their work over time. Funders who put restrictions on overhead costs constrain organisations ability to achieve optimal social impact.
- Fund Networks: Networks are tools in our social change toolboxes that support stakeholders to take collaborative action and to develop strategic initiatives that include multiple players who are part of the solution. Networks are also an excellent source for capacity building for those participating, incentivising collaboration, experimenting with new approaches, and allowing course corrections to happen quicker and more efficiently. Invest in infrastructure and coordination capacity for organisations to collaborate, build networks, and work together more efficiently and effectively.
- Create Transformative Rather than Transactional Relationships: We need to evolve from the corrosive power relationships that have characterised many interactions between funders and grantees to date. To achieve transformational change, we need to practice a partnership model where we all bring assets and gifts to the change at hand. Money is one of those assets, as is community knowledge, people power, relationships, expertise, economic power, and political clout. Effective systems change work relies on all of these assets. It also requires shared sensibility for listening, learning, humility, and collaboration. Funders can give up some of their power to build our collective power for impact.
- Build and Share Power: Non-profits and movement leaders have traditionally not been present in rooms where governments and corporations make big structural decisions. This is especially true for black-, indigenous-, and people of color-led organisations, as well as those led by women, young people, and people with disabilities. Funders can help rebalance these inequities. They can achieve this by sharing power with and building power for the social sector, giving more resources directly at the local level to organisations with local leadership and local ownership, and making more robust investments in organizations led by proximate leaders of color. More inclusive decision-making structures and spaces need to be designed. These spaces should encourage general operating and capacity building support to help leaders win policies and practices that advance the SDGs in their arena of influence. It is also important that funders are open to funding newer, early-stage social entrepreneurs and young entrepreneurs.
- Be Transparent and Responsive: Bring humility to your grantmaking and recognise the power imbalances in your relationships with programme partners. Communicate your equity journey with your grantees. Be crystal clear about your priorities and expectations. Be swift to say no if it’s not a good fit, and respond in a timely manner. The urgency of our challenges requires no less of us all.
- Simplify and Streamline Paperwork: Nonprofits spend too much time writing grant proposals and reports to satisfy funders’ requirements, while doing the difficult work of systems change and meeting regulatory conditions. Funders can help give time back by streamlining application processes, coordinating with other donors on due diligence and reporting, and aligning reporting with a systems change mindset. Reporting on systems change work is often more complex and nuanced than listing short-term outputs tied to individual projects. As additional methods of evaluating impact, funders can be more open to stories as examples of progress. They can ask grantees what shifts in the system they are seeing over time, and they can talk to grantees about what’s working in their efforts and what is not.
- Offer Support Beyond the Check: Funders have more to offer than money alone. Be a connector. Make helpful connections for grantee partners to other possible funders and peer organisations, be curious and responsive to their needs, and create opportunities to showcase them and their work in channels to which you have access. Support networks that build strong connections and provide platforms for collaboration rather than competition.
- Collaborate With Other Funders: Just as non-profits need to weave together networks to achieve scale, funders need to build ecosystems of investors in systems change work. Share knowledge, connections and expertise with other donors; enhance efficiencies through coordinated action; open doors for your grantees and walk through them together as partners. Connect with funders that are investing in similar areas and hold one another accountable for thinking broadly about your funding ecosystem and being intentional to include leaders and organisations that have historically and systemically had a hard time accessing funds from donors.
- Embrace a Systems Mindset in Your Grantmaking: Funders should embrace a systems change mindset with their grantees to address their chosen priority problem(s). The overall goal is to meaningfully shift the conditions that hold the problem in place. This involves identifying, understanding, and addressing root causes of the problem(s) you are tackling. This mindset also extends to thinking differently about evaluating and understanding impact over a longer-term horizon.
Many funders can point to some of these principles where they are leading or making progress. However, partial progress, while worthwhile, won’t be enough if we are to respond to the urgency of the complex needs facing us. We call upon philanthropic sector leaders and different types of funders to commit to adopting all of these principles in meaningful ways within their organisations, so that our shared commitment and ability to achieve lasting social change is accelerated.
Specifically, we ask for funders to commit to the following concrete, practical steps to show your support for these principles:
- Take the Funder Diagnostic on funding systems change, found here https://www.notion.so/Systems-Change-Funder-Self-Assessment-545c4fe1196f4fca8247d5060b055481. This is a comprehensive tool designed to support and inform the journey of shifting towards more systems change philanthropy. Develop concrete actions you will take based on the recommendations in the tool, work to improve your score over the next year or two, and commit to re-taking the Funder Diagnostic again to assess your progress.
- Make shifts towards the key elements of funding systems change, such as increasing funding given to groups that use systems change approaches, increasing the percentage of your grants that provide unrestricted core support, and increasing the percentage of your grants that are multi-year funding commitments.
- Revisit and streamline your grant-making processes. Identify at least one way that you can incorporate more perspectives or information from proximate leaders to help you shape your grant decisions.
- Hold yourself accountable to these principles by inviting feedback from your grantees on a regular basis, either through an anonymous grantee survey that you develop, a Grantee Perception Report, a staff survey, or other feedback mechanisms that you create to invite input.
*Many of the principles in this letter are derived from three sources: Embracing Complexity, a collaborative report authored by Catalyst 2030, Ashoka, Co-Impact, Echoing Green, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll Foundation, and McKinsey & Company that reflected the perspectives of many social entrepreneurs across the world; The Trust Based Philanthropy Project; and principles of Racial Equity-Based Philanthropy.
We look forward to working with you our shared journey to create lasting solutions to many of the biggest problems facing people and the planet today.
- Signed by 1,265 organisations.
Africa
Action For Fundamental Change And Development
Action Girls Foundation (AGF)
Adeni
Adilisha
Adit Foundation Uganda
Adolescent Health Centre
Advocacy For Widow’s Empowerment Foundation
Africa Capacity Alliance
Africa Media Hub- Strathmore University Business School
African Coaches League
African Education Program
African Philanthropy Forum
African Visionary Fund
Agri Thamani Foundation
Akili Dada
Allied Source Network Uganda
Allin One For Peace And Female Development
Amh Group
Amplify Girls
Animarem
Anza Entrepreneurs
Apopo
Aqua-Farms Organization
Aspadi
Aspire Coronation Trust (ACT) Foundation
Association Des Jeunes Pour Le Développement Communautaire, Ajdc
Association Gabon Initiatives Jeunesse
Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya
Basicneeds-Ghana
Belenie
Benson Hospital Inc. And Ghia Foundation
Better World Cameroon
Bio Natura Gabon
Bisou Bailey Medical Dispensary
Bless A Child Foundation
Blood:Water
Bong University Graduates Association (BUGA), Inc.), Inc.
Book Dash
Boresha Life Empowerment Kenya
Boundless Minds
Building Tomorrow
Bukene Life Foundation
Bunyala Agri Climate Action Impact CBO
CDVTA Cameroon
C-Sema
Cell4Change
Center for Environmental Justice and Rights SL
Centre Artistique De Gitega
Centre D’Encadrement Et D’Appui En Faveur Des Personnes Démunies
Centre For People’S Empowerment And Rights Initiatives
Champion Of Hope
Chefs dexterity food forum
Child And Youth Protection Foundation
Childline Kenya
Children and Youth Development Initiative (CYDI)
Children And Youth Development Initiative-Cydi
Cida E3
Citizen Bureau For Development And Productivity
Citizen Leaders Lab
Climate And Sustainable Development Action Club
Clinic+O
Clothes to Good
Clothes to Good (Lifelink 24/7 Cares)
Cohere Charity
Collaborative Value Partners Africa
Collective Energy
Columba Leadership
Community Action For Sustainable Development Sierra Leone
Community Forum
community health and development foundation (CHADF)
Copave
Council For Young Africans In Tanzania
Dandelion Africa
Development & Relief Initiative Uganda
Digital Frontiers
Disability Empowerment Consulting and Coaching
Disability Mojo Coaching And Consulting
Eagle Wings Organization
Earth Regenerative Project Sierra Leone – NGO
Ecoclicko Hub
Educaid Sierra Leone
Educate!
Education The Legacy (ETL)
Eduwezo
Elikya Ville
Elim Springs Foundation
Elite Youths Of Anam Foundation
Émergence Afrique (EMAF) SARL
Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation
Empower Nations Initiative
Empowered Girls
Empowering Plans Tanzania
Empowervate
Enable The Disable Action Eda
Enda Inter-Arabe
Enda Interarabe
Engabu Za Tooro (Tooro Youth Platform for Action)
Enviro Impi
Environmental conservation society (ECOS)
Epic-Africa Foundation
Ept
Equip Liberia
Ess Creative And Legal Foundation
Ethio SciTech Engineering Group plc
Etkei Women Group
Faded Black Innovations
Fahamu Sheria Foundation T/A Sheria Kiganjani
Faith Dawah Foundation
Family Engage For Action Foundation (Faeaf)
Ferme D’Espoir
Finemind
Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI)
Fix Forward Trust
Forum For African Women Educationalists Kenya
Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta – PIND
Friends Of Kenya Rising
Funding With Trust
Gabriella Children’S Rehabilitation Centre
Garment Solutions
Gender Accountability For Peace And Security
Girl Up Initiative Uganda
Girls Education Collaborative
Girls Education Mission International
Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone (GESL)
Girls Inspired Development Network
Girls To Lead Africa
Glaring Future Foundation
Global Grassroots
Global Initiative For Women And Children
Global Youth Network for Empowerment & Development
Goodfood Agric Enterprises
Grass-Up Now Development Consortium
Grassroots Agency For Urban And Rural Development
Grassroots Development Initiatives Foundation-Kenya (Gradif-Kenya)
Hailord Foundation
HakiElimu
Hakizetu Organization
Hale Africa
Health And Environmental Management Initiatives
Healthy Liberia
HeartBeat Clowns NPC
Helping Hands Kenya
Higherlife Foundation
Home Of Hope Jinja Uganda
Hope-Aid Organisation
House Of Hilkiah Foundation
I Can Fly International
Ideas 2 Impact
Impact Hub-Liberia
Impactdev Africa
Infinit Impact
Infinite Hope For Vulnerable Africa
Inherit Your Rights
Innoveight Hub Uganda
Institute for Environmental Protection (IFEP), Inc.
Integrate Health
Integrity Action
Inua Foundation
Isoko Leadership Workshop
It Ends Here Swihela-Lani Foundation
J.M Education and Research Centre (JMERC)
Jambo For Development
Jesus Koazeah Childcare Center (JKCC) inc
Jitolee Voluntary Service Association
Jumuiya Women Fund
Kabubbu Development Project
Kadesh International
Kajo Keji Health Training Institute
Kaleidoscope Lights
Kenya Community Sports Foundation
Kerwa Child And Family Programme
Kezzy Diversity & Inclusion Solutions
Khulisa Social Solutions
Kiambu Pamoja Trust
Kickstart International
Kijiji Yeetu
Kikandwa Environmental Association
Kilimani Prject Foundation
Kilombero Organization For Community Development
Kiota Social Innovation Center
Kkfdesigns
Kyaninga Child Development Centre
Lakehub Foundation
Leaders
LEAP Institute
Learning In Practice
Legado
Lending Hands Initiative
LESA Communications
Let There Be Light International
Lifeline Energy
Lifeline Technologies Trading Ltd.
Lifeline/Childline Zambia
Linda Mazingira Initiative Kenya
Little Home Farms And Consultancy Limited
Living Goods
Longevity Development
LoudSilence
Lwala Community Alliance
Lyra In Africa Organization
Madreef And Mzimba Christian Vocational School (Mcvs)
Maklumy Technology Services Limited
Malema Foundation Tanzania
Maliasili
Marquise House
Matungu Community Development Charity
Media Concern Initiative
Mercy And Peace Creation
Micky Foods Ltd
Mihoso International Foundation
Monsapo
Mordecai Care Foundation Of Nigeria
More4Women.Org
Mpedigree
Mukisa Foundation
Munch Innovation (Pty)Ltd
Mushrooming Legal, Economic And Environmental Aid For Communities
Muso
Mwasenda Development Intervention
Myagro
N’Weti Health Communication
National Mentorship Movement
Ndu Ike Akunuba (Nia)
Neighbourhood Environment Watch Foundation
Newmusicsa
Ngo Ivorary
Ngo: Adet(Amis Des Étrangers Au Togo)
Ni Hekima Pekee Organization
Nimba United For Progress
Nourishing Africa
Now And Tomorrow Uganda
Nyaka Aids Orphans Project
Ocph-Caritas Guinée
One Acre Fund
One Ride Mobility
Onevillage Partners
Ong Deborah
ONG sante animale Afrique (SAA)
Opennet For All Zambia (Opennet4 O Zambia)
Organisation Of Special Needs Education Teachers (Osnet)
Organization Of African Youth
Orkeeswa
Pamodzichild Africa
Partner Liberia
Peace And Action Worldwide
Pemba Child Rights Enviromntal And Malaria Control Organization (Pecremaco)
PEN
Phenergy-Liberia
Philanthropy Circuit
Pillar For Africa Development-Pad
Pillar Of Health
Potential Enhancement Foundation
Potential Leaders For Sustainable Future
Potential Leaders For Sustainable Future
Powering Potential Inc.
Powering Young Initiatives
Premia Maisha Foundation
Prikkle Academy
Prisca Ngweshemi
Progressive Women And Children Of Liberia
Projekt Inspire
Projet Jeune Leader
Pwani Teknowgalz
Rays Of Hope Ministries
Reading To Learn South Africa
Ready for Reading
Real Consulting Group
Recovery Youth With Vision
Refugee Community for Resilience and Development (RECORD)
Refugee Innovation Centre
Refugees For Prosperity
Research Development Services Ltd
Riahsah Co.
Rlabs Tanzania
Rural Action Lab
SA Harvest NPC
SABAA.Education
Safe Space Initiative
Sakale Development Foundation
Sanku Project Healthy Children
Sanyu Centre for Arts and Rights
Sasur Peace And Reconciliation Self Help Group
Save for Development and Relief Association (SADERA)
Savvy Tech Girls Initiative
Sayes Mentoring
Set Her Free
Sevics
Sheafam & Tam Limited
Shine Literacy
Shinyanga Ecovillage Youth Transition Initiative (Set-Youyh-I)
Shirika La Usawa Wa Kijinsia Tz (Sukita)
Shiwamila
Shonaquip Social Enterprise
Shortkode Technologies Limited
Siaya Community Library
Sillab Africa
Sima Community Based Organisation
Siorosa Anyango Foundation
Small Scale Livestock and Livelihoods Program (SSLLP)
Smart Ladies Intiative
Soft Power Health
Solar Health Uganda
Solar Sister
Songambele Initiative Organisation
Soulace Africa
Spark Health Africa
Special Children’S Trust
St. Francis Health Care Services
Stamp Cleantech Ltd
Steer For Change Mother And Newborn Foundation
Street2School_NG
Street Business School
Sujukwa (Collaborative Solutions For Health Professionals)
Sustainable Beekeeping &Human Development (SuBeHuDe)
Sustainable Cities Africa
Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Kenya
Tackleafrica
Tai Tanzania
Tangaza University College
Tanzania Agricultural Modernization Association
Tanzania Rural Health Movement
Tanzania Sign Language Translation Department
Teach For Nigeria
Teach For Uganda
Teach The Nation
Teenage Mothers And Girls Development Group
Tekchills Foundation
The Learning Trust
The Action Foundation
The African Leadership Institute (Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship)
The Center For Memories
The Crux Organisation & Leadership Development
The Dawn Of Obunga Cbo
The Girls Foundation Of Tanzania
The Great Lakes Development And Relief Services (Gladers)
The Greenlight Office
The Leads
The New Wash Burn Foundation (NWBF)
The Popular Inspiring and Relief Organization (PIRO)
The Saville Foundation
The Social Makeover
The Toa Nafasi Project
The Umundu Artivism
Think Help Restore (Thr) Media
Think Opal
Ticah
Tostan
Trade + Impact
Tumkkas Community Based Organization
Tunza Dada
Twaweza East Africa
Twende
Ubuntu.Lab Institute Ltd, Zambia
Umoja Tanzania Incorporated
Umoja wa wawezeshaji KIOO
Unique Foundation The Gambia
United Youth For Peace Education Transparency And Development In Liberia
University Of Ilorin, Nigeria
Utepco
Uwezo Tanzania
Vase Of Transformation
Vertical Farm Ventures Ltd
Village Farmers Initiative (VFI)
Village Hopecore International
Vision and Mission Group
Vision For Africa Foundation Network Ng
Vision Youth Outreach
Vulnerable Child Care Liberia Inc
Wakulima Agri-Food Company Ltd
Wandikweza
Wangu Kanja Foundation (K)
Whaiafrica
Whiz Kids Workshop
Women Development Centre
Wonder Liberia
Worldreader
Wotesawa Domestic Workers
Yagazie Foundation
Yepao
Yna Kenya
Young Strong Mothers Foundation (YSMF)
Young Women Mentoring And Development Program
Your Story Global
Youth And Women For Opportunities Uganda
Youth Horizons, Kenya
Youth@Work
Youthaid-Liberia (YAL)
Ywaste Solutions
Zai Vet Centre Co Ltd
Zaikomena
Zen Consortium
Zizi Afrique
Asia
AAdarsha mahila mandali
Abhivruddi Society for Social Development
ACF
Adarsh Mahila Griha Udyog
Adarsh Mahila Mandal Suryapet
AESIR.hk
Agriculture Republic Pakistan
AgriGreen Nepal
Aikyaa Collective Pvt.Ltd. address 40C, sector 34 dhawalgiri, noida 201301
Anahat Foundation
ANKITA (Association for Needy and Kindle the Illiterate Through Action)
Ankur yuva chetna Shivir
Annai therasa makkal sevai maiyam
Antarang Foundation
Apnalaya
Apni Shala Foundation
APOWA
Arogya World
Ashankura
Ashish Gram Rachna Trust Pachod
Association for Nedy and Kindle the illiterate through Action (ANKITA)
Astha Kunj Society
Astronautical Association of Malaysia (AstroX)
Atma
Aulia Adhyatmik Anusandhan Kendra
Auromira Exports
Avasar Leadership Foundation
Awake Agriculture and Rural Development Society
Badlaav samiti
BagoSphere
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio & Communication
Banka Earth Foundation
BecauseYOU
Beladingalu Mahila Okkuta
Bengal Network of People Living with HIV (BNP+)
Berojgar Mahila Sewa Samiti
Better Education
Bettr Barista (The Bettr Group)
Blessings In A Bag
Bop Hub
Breakthrough
Bright Future
Bunko Junko
Caerobotics
Caloocan Young Leaders Initiative
Carm-Daksh
Celiso
Center For Advancement Of Philanthropy
Centre For Social And Behaviour Change Communictaion
Centre For Social Equity And Inclusion
Centre For Water Sanitation &Health For Women
Ceylon Artisanal Tea Association
Chandrodaya Social Welfare
Change Alliance Pvt Ltd
Charitable Foundation for Philanthropy Development
Cherysh Trust
Chikka Federation Of India
Child Rights Foumdation
Child Survival India
Cognition India
Cohesion Foundation Trust
Coimbatore Mavatta Thirunangaigal Nala Sangam
Colive – Industree
Committed Communities Development Trust
Community Design Agency
Community Development Centre
Commutiny The Youth Collective
Conserve India
Consumer Action Network Mental Health Lanka (Can Mh Lanka)
Creative Dignity
Creatnet Education
Crikx & Co
Cultural Association for Mass Education and Liberatioon (CAMEL)
Cwin
Daanmatch
Daily Dump
Dasra
Deeksha Mahila Welfare Society
Deshpande Foundation
Design Beku
Development Action for Women in Need Society (DAWN)
Dharmapuri Mavatta Pengal Mampattu Sangam
Dhwani Rural Information Systems Private Limited
Digital Divide Data
Diksha
Direct Create Pvt Ltd
Disha Mahila Bahuddeshiy Sanghatna
Door Step School Foundation
Dream A Dream
ECHO India
Educate Girls
Ek-Asha
Ekibeki Association
Ekta
Elderaid Wellness Pvt Ltd
Empsss – Erode Mavatta Pengal Suya Sakthi Sangam.
Enfold Proactive Health Trust
Ether India
Every Infant Matters
Fair Trade Group Nepal
Farm2Food Foundation
Faudar Rural Educational Society For Harijans (Fresh)
Finnish Refugee Council
Free Lance Research Consultant
Friends of Rural Development Society (FRDS)
Friends-International
Fullness Social Enterprises Society
Gamana
Ghaswala Vision Foundation
Ghedora-Connects
Global Foundation For Advancement Of Environment And Human Wellness
Global Peace Foundation
Glovill Foundation
Gnana Deepam Sevai Maiyam
Good Market
Goodfolks
Goonj
Gopabandhu Seva Parisad
Gram Vaani (Oniondev Technologies Pvt Ltd)
Gram Vikas
Grameen First Eco Business Foundation
Gramhal
Green Foundation
Gujarat state network of people living with HIV AIDS GSNP
Hands Of Compassion
Haq: Centre For Child Rights
Haritika
Head Held High Foundation
Healing Fields Foundation
Health In Harmony
Helping Hand Foundation
Hope On Foundation
Human Organisation for Patronisation of Environment (HOPE)
Humanqind
Hybrid Social Solutions Inc
Impoact Edge Lab, Srishti Manipal Institute Of Art Design And Technology
Independent Advisor On Child Rights
India Foundation for Humanistic Development (IFHD)
Indian Grameen Services
Indian Housing Federation
Indian School of Development Management (ISDM)
Indian Society Of Agribusiness Professionals
Indian Yards Foundation
Industree Foundation
Institute for Development Studies and Practices
Institute For Social Entrepreneurship In Asia (Isea)
Institute Of Health Management, Pachod
Institute Of Social Responsibility & Accountability
Integrated Brilliant Education Limited
ItWillBe
Jeevana Rekha Mahila Sangam
Jjmas Co Gulbarga
Juju Care Medic
Jyoti Bahuudesiya Sevabhavi Sanstha
Kezzler
Kiranammahila Samaikya Sangam
Kmss
KNSS (Kalipather Navajeevan Seva Samity)
Kolkata Sanved
Kopernik
Kovel Foundation
Labournet
Last Forest Enterprises
Lean Finder Consulting Pte. Ltd.
Learning Curve Foundation
Learning Initiatives For India (LIFI)
Learning Space Foundation
Leher
Lekdis Nusantara Indonesia
Lipok Social Foundation
M’Lop Tapang
Macramedecor Craft Pvt Ltd
Mahaguthi Craft With Conscience
Make A Difference
Manzil Mystics
Margadarshi Action For Social Service
Mass
Mayari
Million Sparks Foundation
MOAS – Migrant Offshore Aid Station
Moonkil Kaadu Trust
Mother Society (Miracle Organisation Towards Health And Education Remedial Society )
Mother Theresa Charitable Trust
Mount Valley Development Association
Mukkamaar
Naarisaksham
Naman Seva Samiti
Navasrushti International Trust (DBM INDIA)
Necy
Nepal Developmen Initiative
NETRI Foundation
Nguyen-Phuong Family
Nidan
Nisarga Society
Niwcyd
Nmspms – Namakkal Mavatta Sabarmathi Pengal Mempattu Sangam
Noora Health
One Earth Toys
One Future Collective
Opportunity Foundation Trust
Organization For Rare Diseases India
Pacific Links Foundation
Pahel Pakistan
Peace Trust
People’S Action In Development
People’S Initiative Network (Pin)
Phicus Social Solutions
Planetread
Pradan
Pragathi
Pragati Abhiyan
Pragati, Koraput
Pragya Seeds Nepal
Prem Samriddhi Foundation
Primary Education Project Diocese of Hyderabad Church of Pakistan
Prosperfit.Org
Protsahan India Foundation
Proximity Designs
Pvchr
Raaha
RDWS (Rural Development Welfare Society)
Rehabilitation Aids Workshop by Women with Disability (RAWWD)
Resham Sutra Pvt Ltd
Resource Centre For Participatory Development Studies (RCPDS)
Rightwalk Foundation
Riverside Development Organization (RDO) TRUST
Rubaroo Breaking Silences Foundation
Rudramadevi Mahila Mandali Cbo
Rural Education Development Society
Saaras Foundation
Sahil
Sajjata Sangh
Sakthi – Vidiyal
Salaam Baalak Trust
Salem Pengal Nalavazhu Sangam
Salem Thirunangaigal Nala Sangam
Samarthan-Centre For Development Support
Samposhan
Sanitation First
Sanjeevani Kalyan Samiti
Sanjog
Sankalp Jyoti
Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal
Santhi Archana Ministries
Santhivardhana Ministries
Sara Seva Sansthan Samiti
Sasha Association For Craft Producers
Scodwes
Search
Self Employed Padmini Vna
Serve (Society For Education, Research And Vision Of Expansion)
Seva Mandir
Several NGOs
Shaishav
Shakthi CBO Gokak
Shakti Leadership
ShikshaLokam
Shiksharth Trust
Shramjivi Janata Sahayyak Mandal
Shreni Community Trust
Shristi
Siffs
Simple Education Foundation
Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund (S3IDF)
Smsws
SNEHA
Social Action Of Next Guide Rural Awareness In Health Sansthan
Social Awareness Build Active Leader Ability (SABALA)
Social Eductaion Economical Development Society( Seeds)
Society For Environment Protection And Education Development
Society For Himalayan Environment And Geology
Society for National integration through Education and Humanizing Action (SNEHA)
Society For Orphan, Neglected And Youths (Sony)
Society For Rural Environment And Devlopement (Sred)
Society For Solidarity And Reconstruction
Socio Economic Development Trust
Sosec Nepal
Soukhya Sanjevini Samste
Spandana Sri
Spectra Organisation
Speed Sourcing
Spms – Sudar Oli Pengal Mempattu Sangam.
Spread
Spring Health Water India Pvt Ltd
Sri Durgashakthi Adis Tadegattuva Mahila Sangha Davanagere Dvg
Sri Lakshmi Pengal Munnetra Sangam
Srijan (Self Reliant Initiatives Through Joint Action)
SSP
Study Hall Educational Foundation
Sukjanwellfare Seva Sanstha
Swagathi Mahila Sangam
Swagathi Sneha Sangam
Swasti Health Catalyst
Synergy Sansthan
Teach For Viet Nam
Teamwork Arts
The Akanksha Foundation (India)
The Association Of People With Disability
The Gender Lab
The God Theresa Mahila Mandali
The Irdwsi
The Resilient Foundation
The Stephen School For The Deaf
Tutorum Technologies
Uaa
Udaya Rekha Mahila Mandali
Udyama
Ujas Mahila Sangthan
United Artists Association
Upaya Social Ventures
Urja Trust
Utthan
Vanitha Mythri Public Welfare Society
Vartaleap
Victory Educational and Welfare Society (VEWS)
Vidivelli Thirunangaigal Nala Sangam
Vidya Gyan India
Vihara Innovation Network
Vitamin Angels
Vivekananda Youth Forum And Edyouth Learning Foundation
Vks Sharanya Welfare Society
Voice Of The Free – Vf Foundation, Inc.
Voluntary Health Association Of Tripura
Vpms – Vellore Pengal Mempattu Sangam
Vruksh Ecosystem Foundation
Vrutti
Waste Warriors Society
Wise Steps Group
World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) Asia
World Health Partners
World Talent Economy Forum
World Toilet Organization
Y-East
Yayasan Inovasi Pembangunan Hijau
Young Generation Of Tajikistan
Young Generation Of The World
Youth Dreamers Foundation
Youth For Social Development
YSD
Оюл “Союз Кризисных Центров Казахстана””
Australasia
Catalysr
Changemakers’ Lab Pty Ltd
Community Capacity Builders
Edu-Fy Pty Ltd
EON Foundation
Green Collect
Inventorium Pty Ltd
S&P Travel Consulting
Social Enterprise Community
Startsomegood
Streat
Thankyou Charitable Trust
The Phoenix School Program
Twenty Five Doors
Wicked Lab
Europe
Acker E.V.
Action For System Change
Aflatoun International
Agroarte Corporación
Alessandra Marazzi GmbH
Anscharcampus
Apolitical Foundation
Atinati
BankTrack
Be.Modos
Bestrun
Bioregional Development Group
BLAST Fest Ltd
Broadcast.Org Media Foundation
Building Pioneers Ug
Butterfly Works
Capito
Center for Open Social Innovation (COSI)
České Centrum Fundraisingu
Chair Is Social Impact
Changemakerxchange
Child Helpline International
Children And Youth Support Organisation
Circonnact – Regenerative Circularity
Civil Society Organization “La Strada-Ukraine”
Co2Online Ggmbh
Collaboratio Helvetica
Collective Futures Ltd.
Common Goal
Creanial Hub Ltd
Delwik Group
Designathon Works
Die Kunst Der Inklusion
Donut Berlin
Dorcas Aid International Albania
Dr. Mega Consulting (DMC)
Ertler Impact
Flare Governance Asbl
Flechtwerk 2+1 Ggmbh
Future Foundations & Global Social Leaders
Gfs Consulting Group
Girl Move Academy
Global Education Futures
Global Witness
Greenwood Place
Growthx CIC
H&M Foundation
Hactar
I3L – Social Impact Investment, Unp Lda
Iblf Global
Ici Network
Ikea Foundation
International Bridges To Justice
International Social And Economic Development Team Ltd
Işkın Social Innovation Association
Jambo Bukoba E. V.
Kickfair
Learning Lions
Linka Detskej Istoty / Child Safety Line Slovakia
Madlug C.I.C
Maghtech
Mansit Housing Cic
Marine Stewardship Council
Markevitch Media Gmbh – Ikonotv
Metabolic
Mirlab
More In Common
Mozaik Foundation
Nadácia otvorenej spoločnosti Bratislava /Open Soviety Foundation / NOS-OSF
Next Stage Consulting
NGO Nexus Qazaqstan ESG
Novamedia/Postcode Lottery Group
Now-U
Paglinghi Marie
PalliativTeam Frankfurt gGmbH
Politics For Tomorrow
Projecttogether
Prosser Projects
Purpose Alliance
Reach For Change
Republica Media
Sdg Changemakers
Serlo Education E.V.
Sharing Strategies
Sic4Change
Skateistan
Stiftelsen Musikbojen
Stiftung Drachensee
Supercoop Berlin Eg
Supply Change
Survivor Alliance
Teachsurfing Gug
Teamadl Cic
The Confluencers Ltd.
The Good Lobby
The Idea Studio
The Languages Of Energy
The Weaving Lab
The Wonder Of Me
Ticket For Change
Tin Ventures Ltd
Traidcraft Exchange
Transformations Community
Trê Investindo com Causa
Triaphon Ggmbh
TrueFootprint BV
University Of Geneva
Validaid
Wilmette Institute
Wohn:Sinn – Bündnis Für Inklusives Wohnen E.V.
Wolfsträne E.V.
Würdezentrum gUG
Yekpare Social Enterprise Turkey
Yesil Cember – Ökologisch Interkulturell Ggmbh
Zorgvrijstaat
Latin America
Abraps – Associação Brasileira Dos Profissionais Pelo Desenvolvimento Sustentável
Agora Partnerships
Aliança Nacional Lgbti+
Alma Cívica
Alter Global
Antenas Por Los Niños A.C
Arizona Sonoa Border Projects For Inclusion
Associação Civil Live Lab
Associação Dos Amigos Dos Animais De Nova Odessa
Associação Educacional Cultural E Assistencial Miesperanza
Associação Viva E Deixe Viver
Build Change
Caribfarm Inc
Cdi Global / Recode
Cemefi
Cesbo
Children International
Cieds
CIEDS Brasil
Circulatam Bic
Ciudad Saludable
Climate Ventures
Colombia Cuida A Colombia
Consolidated Contractors Group (Offshore)
Consultoria De Comunicação
Coopera
Corazonar Ac
Cren
Cren Centro De Recuperação E Educação Nutricional
Educate2Envision International
Enseña Por Colombia
Eureka Latam
Fbac
Fundação Laço Rosa
Fundación Capital
Fundación Comparte Por Una Vida Colombia
Fundación Epas
Fundación Escuela Nueva/Volvamos A La Gente
Fundación Gloria Kriete
Fundacion Inmula (Inclusion Al Mundo Laboral )
Fundacion Paraguaya
Fundación San Ramón Carbono Neutral – Healing Trees
Funder
Gamba/Media
Gchera
Gextión Consultores
Glasswing
Grupo Interdisciplinario De Tecnología Rural Apropiada A.C.
Home Storytellers
Idis – Instituto Para O Desenvolvimento Do Investimento Social
Imaflora
Impact.To – Negócios Sustentáveis
Instituto Dara
Instituto De Desenvolvimento De Talentos
Instituto Devolver
Instituto H &H Fauser Para O Desenvolvimento Sustentável
Instituto Phi
Instituto Refazer
Instituto Vita
Instituto VITA
Ipa Instituto Pérola Do Atlântico
Ipe – Instituto De Pesquisas Ecológicas (Institute For Ecological Reserarch)
Kuja Kuja
La Comunidad, Inc.
La Peacehub – Masterpeace
Livelab
Mapbiomas
Movilizatorio
Movimento Bem Maior
Network of Engaged International Donors (NEID Global)
OpEPA
Petit Gourmet
Pintura Suma
Plan International Brasil
Redappe
Resiliencia Activa
Retrak.Com.Mx
Saborear La Vida
Sector3 Social Venture Group
Semilla Nueva
Sitawi Finanças do Bem
Social Gastronomy Movement
Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL)
Taap Foundation
Taller Salud
Tejiendo Redes Infancia En América Latina Y El Caribe
Teto Brasil
Toynovo
Trabajo Y Persona
Tu Consejeria
Tulia’S Artisan Gallery
Univerdidad Cooperativa De Colombia
Uplifting Women by MGA
Vaga Lume
Vamos Concertación Ciudadana
Visualiza C Onsultoria
Viva Rio
Whole Child International
North America
Accountable Impact
Aid To Artisans
American Public Health Association
American Sustainable Business Network
Andorra, Inc.
Ansara Family Fund
Benetech
Bites Philanthropies Inc.
Black Fox Philanthropy, B Corp
Bokitas Foundation
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
Brio Health Global
Building Markets
Calgary Chamber Of Voluntary Organizations
Caravan Learning Consultants
Center For Economic Inclusion, University Of Houston
Center For Inspired Teaching
Ceres
Chandler Foundation
Children’S Environmental Health Network
Clean And Healthy New York
Climate + Energy Project
Collaboration Associates
Collective Capital Philanthropy
College For Social Innovation
Common Future
CommonWealth Kitchen
Corlett Fundraising
Creative Reaction Lab
Crisis Text Line
Curajoy
Diam Life Inc
Dubarah
East Side Institute
Echoing Green
ecoAmerica
Emanate International
Enactus
Free The Mind Co
Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS)
Global Citizen Year
Global Footprint Network
Global Fund For Children
Global Knowledge Initiative
Goodweave International
Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities
Greater Good Studio
Greater Than Equal
Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Inc
Grove Collective Foundation
Health Care Without Harm
Health Leads
Imago Dei Fund
Impact Innovator
Independent Individual Freelancer Named Hitesh Bhatt & Ms Jalpa Patel-India.
Institute For Community Prosperity
Institute For Liberatory Innovation
Intention 2 Impact, Inc.
Inter-Connected
Interfaith Power & Light
International Budget Partnership
Just Transition Alliance
Kairos & Heart Llc
Landesa
Last Mile Health
Last-Report.Com
Letters to Strangers
LINKages Society of Alberta
Moms For A Nontoxic New York
National Center For Family Philanthropy
National Family Farm Coalition
New Age Services Inc.
Nexus
Oram – Organization For Refuge, Asylum And Migration
Panorama Global
Pathfinder
Peace By Piece International
Peacebuilders Canada
Polaris
Rd Innovative Planning
Root Capital
Rosa Es Rojo, Inc.
Rural Coalition
Search For Common Ground
Segal Family Foundation
Sevalink
Shoe Waste
Simmons Center For Global Chicago
Skoll Foundation
Social Impact Movement
Society For Advancement Of Science And Technology In The Arab World
Start-Up Kids
Sustainametrix, Llc
Synertium
Teamrudy
The Diatribe Inc
The Funders2025 Fund
The History Co:Lab
The Matale Line
The Power Of The Heels Foundation
The Systems Sanctuary
Tlc Impact Fund
Transforming Philanthropy, Llc
Trees, Water & People
Tru2U Communications
University Of Houston, Center For Economic Inclusion, Sure Program
Urban Core Collective
Verite
Vow For Girls
Water For People
Water.Org & Waterequity
West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology (WMCAT)
Wethrive
Women’S Centers International
Women’S Voices For The Earth
Working Capital Innovation Fund
World Bicycle Relief Nfp
Wright Collective
Youthbuild Usa
MENA
3BL Associates
Amaly Legacy
Co-Profit
Dar Erteqa
Dialeb – National Diabetes Organization
Eran
For All Foundation
Hogso Djibouti
Human Aid for Relief and Development Organization
inHive
Kharazmi University
Maghazi Community Rehabilitation Society/ Community Development Foundation Mcrs
Ministry Of Education
Moroccan Center For Civic Ed
Moroccan Center For Inclusive Development
Organization for Social and Economic Development (OSED)
Palestinian Family Support Association
Project Soar
Questscope
Sanid Organization For Relief And Development
Unlimited Friends Association For Social Development
We Love Reading
With Global Ltd
الائتلاف السوداني للتعليم للجميع
المنظمة العالمية لرعاية الاسرة والطفل
حزب الخضر المصري
مختبر الابداعية للتمكين والابتكار
ملتقى تنوع الحوار الشبابي
منظمة حماية المراهقين
ملتقى تنوع الحوار الشبابي
منظمة خبراء للتنمية – اليمن EDO
Global
Acceso
Accountability Lab
Africa Voices Dialogue
Alight
Allternet
Ashoka
Barefoot College International
Blue Door English
Bounce Beyond
Cadasta Foundation
Cancer Research Center-Kilifi & Biophyto Medical Freiburg.
Care2Communties And Funder Of Co-Impact
Center For Victims Of Torture
Co-Impact
Collective Change Lab
Compass Education
Corstone
Creative Metier
Crisis Action
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT)
Dimagi
Ecopeace Middle East
EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT (EFE)
Elders Council For Social Entrepreneurs
Elevate Prize Foundation
Emprendedorsocial.Org
Exoimpact
Fair Trade Usa
Fairtrasa International
Forest Trends Association
Girls Not Brides:
GoPhilanthropic Foundation
H.M. Queen Silvia’S Foundation – Care About The Children
Heatlh In Harmony
Homeless World Cup Foundation
Hoonarts Fair Trade Llc
Independent Diplomat
India Development Coalition Of America
International Center For Transitional Justice
Jaggery (An Initiative Of The Meaningful Design Foundation)
Kajo Keji Health Training Institute
Kopin
Lendforgood
Maliasili
Medic
Mentor Services
Metamorphany Changemakers
Micromentor
Migrants Commission
Nova Scotia Parent Cross-Cultural Organization NSPCC
One Family Foundation
Pacific Links Foundation
Pandemic Action Network
Partners In Health
Play Verto Global
Readyfundgo
Results for Development (R4D)
Riders For Health And Elders Council
She’s the First
Skills21
Social Change Innovators
Socion
Systems Entrepreneurs Advisors
Teach A Man To Fish
Teach For All
Teachunited
Tech Matters
The Flourish Initiative
U-Go
Venezia Autentica / Overtourism Solution
Videre Est Credere
Villagereach
Visionspring
War Child
Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)
Witness
—Updated on 29 September 2023