Grassroots organizations are a driving force for transformation, intimately understanding the unique challenges and opportunities within their communities. However, traditional funding models leave g
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
Too southern to be funded
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
How to fund refugee-led aid
Refugee-led organisations (RLOs) have garnered growing attention in recent years as key first-responders to humanitarian needs in the communities they are a part of and that they serve. But RLOs rece
Transforming financing for peace: can philanthropy rise to the challenge?
Peacebuilding is in crisis. This year begun with wars burning in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine – not to mention less-covered but still deadly conflicts from Myanmar to Haiti. Worldwide, diplomatic efforts
‘Testing Ideas: More Symmetrical Financing for Peacebuilding’ with GPPAC & RFF
This session convened local peacebuilders and donors to pitch and test with the audience ideas on adjusting the role of intermediary organizations in the aid chain, so as to shift the power balance i
Trends towards the defunding of European Peacebuilding: German ODA cuts as a case in point
Following a protracted process, Germany finalised its federal budget for 2024 in late January, navigating through economic challenges marked by slowing growth. The resultant austerity course led to s
Why aren’t we there yet? Understanding and addressing donor barriers to localisation in climate adaptation
Localisation has become a major concern across the development and humanitarian sectors. It is driving donor efforts to increase direct access for local actors to donor resources, as well as promotin