Resources for funders

Top tips for funders about how to build mutually beneficial relationship with their funding organisations.

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

‘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

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

Walking the talk is a guide produced by funders on how funders evaluate their policy and practice influencing work.

This resource, which came from a guide produced by funders, is a logic model for funders’ policy and practice influence.

See case studies on improving the wellbeing and quality of life of care experienced by young people, and one on investing in play.

‘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

This 2017 report reflects on Harmonising Reporting; it outlines the original problem to be solved and how Harmonising Reporting came about. The report includes examples and case studies of improvements in reporting practice since 2010 and summarises where we are now. It also has suggestions on what could come next.

This short paper came from an event where funders and third sector organisations discussed the challenges of understanding and reporting on core funding.  The paper does not have all the

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

This report is about the first funder master class ‘Small and Simple”. The master class considered “what is good enough evaluation for small grants?”.

This report contains the learning from the second of ESS’s programme of master classes.

In the third funder masterclass ‘Adding Up Outcomes’ challenges such as ‘what are we measuring?’ were discussed.

This report is about the 4th funder master class ‘Evaluating Together’. This briefing note for funders shares key points from the master class and from the funders who took part.

This tool comes from work by Evaluation Support Scotland and the Scotland Funders’ Forum to make reporting more useful and less burdensome for funders and funded organisations, and to improve grant management relationships.

This report brings together the learning from all the organisations taking part in Support in the Right Direction, a thematic programme to improve understanding about ‘what works’ in Independent Support

Lara Murray (Fund Manager, Health and Social Care ALLIANCE Scotland) and Sarah Cleary (Health and Employability Service Manager, Volunteer Edinburgh)