For decades, philanthropy and governments have practised a top-down approach to funding, treating the symptoms and not the root causes of the most pressing social issues. By contrast, community-drive
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Grassroots organizations are a driving force for transformation, intimately understanding the unique challenges and opportunities within their communities. However, traditional funding models leave g
Unfolding the Tapestry: Weaving Themes and Strategies of Feminist Crisis Response
In 2023, the Equality Fund commissioned research on feminist response to crisis to inform its approach to a new grantmaking stream, acknowledging that research from feminist voices from the Global So
Illuminating Impact: Why Gender Matters for Funders in Any Issue Area
In 2021, The Bridgespan Group partnered with Shake the Table to investigate how funders could better support feminist movements. The resulting report, Lighting the Way: A Report for Philanthropy on t
Insights from Conversations with NEID Global Commission on: Racial Equity in International Philanthropy
At NEID Global, we’ve had a front row seat for over 15 years to conversations among global funderson their approaches to giving, the values they aim to lead with in their work, and the deeply persona
Envisioning an Equitable Future for Research across the North-South Divide
This synthesis paper brings together perspectives from across the Global South and North to explore the complexities and challenges of promoting equity in research. Drawing on separate inquiry tra
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Philanthropy practitioners, institutions and the sector at large are questioning themselves and their practices, continuing to learn and exchange ideas on how they can do better. The transformation a
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Longstanding calls for a more equitable and decolonized international development sector have grown over the past several years. Central to recent arguments is the importance of shifting both power a
Aid Watch 2023: Bursting the ODA inflation bubble
We are living through events few could have predicted a couple of years ago. The consequences of another war in Europe are being felt across the world in the form of increasing energy and food prices
Coloniality and the inadequacy of localisation
This article uses coloniality as an analytical framework to critique the concept of localisation. It argues that localisation is inadequate to respond to the asymmetrical power dynamic that it seeks