Institute For Voluntary Action Research

360Giving is 9 years old today! 🎂 Last week we launched UKGrantmaking.org, and as we reach another anniversary we want to take the opportunity to celebrate how far we’ve come – and to thank some of the trustees and supporters who were with us from the start of this journey to make grantmaking in the UK more informed, effective and strategic. Over the past 9 years, we’ve developed the 360Giving Data Standard for sharing grants data, grown a range of support options for grantmakers who want to use it to share their data, created tools like GrantNav and 360Insights to search the data, and used the data to support our understanding of grantmaking and civil society in the UK through reports and analysis. 📈279 funders have published over 1 million grants worth over £265 billion! Over 70,000 people access and use this data each year. We’d like to shout out our amazing Trustees, Stewardship Committee members, partners, funders, supporters, and funders who share their data. We couldn’t have come this far without all of your support. As we look to the future with annual editions of UKGrantmaking, continued development of the Data Standard, improvements to our tools and more deep dives and analysis, we’d like to invite everyone to join us in what comes next. ➡ Take a look at the data and insights on UKGrantmaking.org – and if you're part of a funder who wants to be included next year and learn even more, take a look at our support options or get in touch to talk about how we can help you to share your data: https://lnkd.in/eXT7WDiw

I’ve just emerged from a great conversation held by Institute For Voluntary Action Research with civil society leaders. The crisis we are facing in my area is clearly felt everywhere. Stories of it never having been this bad – councils cutting services to the bone in the face of bankruptcy, demands on civil society going through the roof, civil society groups closing, funding systems breaking through too much demand, massive delays, some even closing. We urgently need a national plan for civil society renewal from the new government. We need the key bodies NCVO NAVCA Association of Charitable Foundations and others making an immediate case to tackle the severity of this crisis through significant investment. We neither need nor can we wait for any commissions or inquiries. We understand and see the issues on a daily basis. We need independent trusts & foundations to spend their endowments & recognise that their work to achieve change needs to start with the reality in local communities – what they need, what are their priorities & frames. Transformation will start through grassroots action connected at scale to achieve big shifts. Urgent investment in local place with monies held by local communities. 

"Trust-based philanthropy is a lifeline to grantees – it tells us that a funder has confidence in us, they believe in us, and they expect us to hold ourselves accountable. When things don’t go according to plan, funders and grantees can work on these situations together, and a trusting relationship is established and reinforced." - Hannah Chotiner-Gardner #ICYMI Tina Lee of the Dropbox Foundation sits down with grantee partner, Hannah Chotiner-Gardner of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) to discuss the importance of embracing #trustbasedphilanthropy. Tina Lee emphasizes "If we’re asking nonprofits to innovate in their programmatic giving, we need to innovate in our support." 👏 Continue reading below for more gems and insights 💡.

Excited to share with you my thinking on how grantmakers and grant seekers reap mutual benefits when they move into relational philanthropy. Juliet Valdinger, MSc. Michele Price Lily Harriss Anand Shukla Trust-Based Philanthropy Project Sumita KunashakaranRania Fazah Roman Sklotskiy gunnercooke

Holding a mirror up to our own practices.   In this blog, our Partnerships and Learning Manager, Elaine Gibb reflects on her experience as both an applicant and a funder during her career to explain why we’re trying to hold ourselves to account for the way we operate and why we’re part of Institute For Voluntary Action Research's Open and Trusting grant-making movement. #Funding #Grants #OpenAndTrusting https://lnkd.in/ecUmT2-J

🆕 report! 'A shared endeavour: Five approaches to assessing the impact of unrestricted funding' To really understand the impact of unrestricted funding, a collaborative approach between charities and grantmakers is crucial. 🤝 We have explored how Open and Trusting funders can work with funded organisations to assess the impact of unrestricted, and our report shares five different approaches to consider. This begins with minimising tailored reporting requirements and using conversations to gather qualitative information for impact analysis and learning. 💬 Read the report to learn more and consider how together, #FlexibleFunders and charities can assess impact as a collective – moving away from the idea we need precise evidence to show the difference unrestricted funding is making. 🔗 Find it here: buff.ly/3xJzq89 Interested in hearing more about the report? You can join our webinar on the impact of unrestricted funding: 🗓️ Thursday 11 July 🕧 12:30 – 13:30 We'll hear from three funders who are embracing unrestricted funding, with a chance to ask questions. Find out more and register your place: https://bit.ly/4cCyaTb

We are excited and proud to share our latest work, an ambitious and innovative new collaboration - UKGrantmaking.org. The platform brings together data from regulators, funder accounts and data published using the 360Giving Data Standard to provide an interactive way to understand and explore grantmaking in the UK. It is a unique collaboration between 360Giving, the Association of Charitable Foundations, ACO - The Association of Charitable Organisations, UK Community Foundations, London Funders, supported by Pears Foundation and CCLA Investment Management Association of Charitable Foundations, the Association of Charitable Organisations, UK Community Foundations and London Funders, supported by Pears Foundation and CCLA. Launched today, it collates and analyses information available on grants made by UK grantmakers in 2022-23. Providing information on over £20bn of grants from across all grantmaking sectors to the voluntary, community and social sectors, UKGrantmaking is the definitive resource for grantmaking data and insights. Whether you are a funder interested in understanding the context your organisation works in, a charity developing strategies for fundraising, or a researcher/policy maker seeking to understand the trends in grantmaking, take a look at UKGrantmaking to help inform your work. The platform has been designed with interactive visualisations and tables that can be searched, sorted and downloaded, allowing easier access to insight into grantmaking than ever before. The research and analysis will be repeated annually and UKGrantmaking is intended to grow and evolve with each edition. It will enable 360Giving and partners to develop an approach to longer-term analysis that considers trends and provides a source of base data that can be used to “deep dive” into specific areas. We’re pleased that we have been able to bring partners together for this collaborative project to help us better understand grantmaking in the UK - and we’re excited to build on it in the years ahead. We’re proud that everyone can access this valuable data in one place for free, and that it is openly available for people to use for their own purposes. Sharing data in this way will make it easier for everyone to understand, to collaborate, and to support grantmaking to become more informed, effective and strategic. This data analysis would not be possible without the commitment of funders who publish their grant data openly so it can be used for collective research and analysis, so a big thank you to our community of 360Giving data publishers. Explore the platform and let us know what you think! UKGrantmaking.org #UKGrantmaking #OpenGrants #OpenData