Those of us working in the charitable sector know an effective way to raise money for children’s charities is to share the stories of the children we serve: their experiences, the support they need to access education and new opportunities, and their visions for the future. At Global Fund for Children, we make an ongoing commitment to including children in our storytelling and fundraising whilst also honouring their dignity, keeping them safe, and ensuring their …

There’s a good chance you’ve heard the phrase ‘time, talent, and treasure’ when it comes to philanthropy. Many in the field, including us at TPI, believe that a strategic, holistic approach to philanthropy involves deploying more than just financial assets. Funders of all types – individual donors, families, foundations, companies, and others – have unique resources to influence, leverage, and use to facilitate social change. Some of the most powerful examples point to a common …

In part one of this series, we argued for why philanthropy should invest in narrative competency to help combat toxic polarisation. Here, we offer some recommendations for how. Let’s be audacious! By using a cultural lens for programming, philanthropy can help overcome the oversimplification of narrative and identity arising out of deep polarisation and can help sustain curiosity about the ‘other.’ Distinguish narrative engagement from strategic communications: ‘Narratives’ is a term ubiquitous in the social …

The pandemic exposed health inequity and the consequences of living with overburdened healthcare systems. Whether it was lack of access to treatment in impoverished communities, lack of public trust, lack of access to critical medical technology, suffering the effects of an already overburdened healthcare system, or all of the above, Covid-19 did not impact us equally. As a colleague recently stated, ‘We may be in the same storm, but we are not all in the …