Resources
We are aware that there is a wide range of high quality resources on flexible funding, which can feel overwhelming. We have curated a selected list of key materials for you. Additional practical documents, templates, and case studies will be added over time. Please check back for updates.
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Practical guidance
- Capturing General Operating Support Effectiveness: An Evaluation Framework for Funders and Evaluators, TCC Group
- Centering Equity through Flexible, Reliable Funding. GEO
- Core grants: The long and winding road to transformative funding, Laudes & Intrac
- Due Diligence Passporting. Humentum
- Funding Civil Society Freedom: Models, Stories and Strategies for Making Flexible Funding Work, Peace Direct
- less is more: A Toolbox for Modern Grantmakers
- Making It Happen: A Conversation Guide, CEP
- Templates & Samples. Trust-based Philanthropy Project
Evaluation reports: Impact of Unrestricted Funding
- Breaking the Mold: The Transformative Effect of MacKenzie Scott's Big Gifts, CEP
- Build Final Evaluation report, Ford Foundation
- Core Funding: Findings from the Youth Fund evaluation Paul Hamlyn Foundation
- Core funding impact stories, Imagine Canada
- People’s Postcode Lottery Funding for Impact: Understanding the perceptions and views of the organisations which receive funding from People’s Postcode Lottery
- Rapid Assessment of organisational grants in the Active Citizens Fund under the 2014-2021 EEA and Norway Grants
Case studies
- Esmée's insights on core funding
- From charity advocate to funder convert: The case for flexible funding, the Talbot Trusts
- Funder Practices that Strengthen. Nonprofits' Resilience: Lessons from India, Bridgespan
- Funding from a Place of Trust: Exploring the value of general operating support and capacity building grants. Citi Foundation & Synergos
- How Many-Year Grants Can Transform Nonprofit Jobs and Amplify Impact. A Case Study by Fund the People of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund's Endeavor Fund
- Making the Case: Foundation Leaders on the Importance of Multiyear General Operating Support. CEP
- Philanthropy Transformation Initiative: Oak Foundation
- Unrestricted Funding, Unlimited Advantages, Segal Family Foundation