Building mutually beneficial relationships – Top tips for Funders
Top tips for funders about how to build mutually beneficial relationship with their funding organisations.
Results for: For funders
Five approaches to assessing the impact of unrestricted funding
‘Long-term flexible funding allows organizations to allocate resources where they are most needed, making room for innovation, emergence, and impact.’ Commissioned by Co-op Foundation, IVAR’s latest report explores how open and
Funders’ online reporting systems – a reflection paper (2018)
This paper is for funders that have, or are developing online reporting systems. It summaries reflections from a discussion session in January 2018 at which funders shared experiences of online
Getting the best from external evaluations – Principles for funders
This resource is about external evaluations (for example of a grant programme), that are commissioned from consultants, universities or others. The headline message is that a successful commissioned evaluation comes
How was it for you? Learning events instead of written reports
Lara Murray (Fund Manager, Health and Social Care ALLIANCE Scotland) and Sarah Cleary (Health and Employability Service Manager, Volunteer Edinburgh)
New principles for grant reporting (December 2018)
‘Funder-led. Bureaucratic. Time-consuming. Misunderstood.’ All words that have been used to describe UK grant reporting – the process (or processes) by which charities report their progress to funders. A group
Principles for Positive Partnerships
This guidance should help you feel more confident in your funding relationship and work together to achieve positive outcomes and learning from grant funding. It is for people in the
Report 1: Master Class: Small and Simple – Evaluating small grants – a briefing for funders
This report is about the first funder master class ‘Small and Simple”. The master class considered “what is good enough evaluation for small grants?”.
Report 2: Master Class: Evaluating our capacity building – a briefing for funders
This report contains the learning from the second of ESS’s programme of master classes.
Report 3. Master Class: Adding Up Outcomes
In the third funder masterclass ‘Adding Up Outcomes’ challenges such as ‘what are we measuring?’ were discussed.