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Are we learning the lessons on investing in communities?
The March UK budget left us with a tentative and rare sense of hope. Along with other charity sector partners, UKCF had been lobbying hard for additional support for struggling charities, and therefore welcomed the …
Reimagining the global mental health funding landscape
Navigating the funding landscape continues to be a challenge for community-based mental health initiatives (CBMHIs). Transformation across stages of the funding process is needed to better support these organisations. A survey conducted by Ember Mental …
Next Frontiers: Unlocking resources in this time of crisis and possibility
Joseph Rowntree Foundation returned for a second year of the funding, philanthropy and investment conference called Next Frontiers – Unlocking resources in this time of crisis and possibility. With 60 speakers and 1000 +attendees (in person and virtual) the …
Annette Dhami of Dark Matter Labs on philanthropy’s boring revolution
A common refrain at Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Next Frontiers conference in London last month is that ‘philanthropy needs a new operating system’. If that’s the case, then what are the implications for the infrastructure which …
Dismantling old ways and beckoning a new age of wealth transfer
Last year’s inaugural Next Frontiers conference set the tone for a radical approach to exploring investment and philanthropy. This year’s edition went a step further, with key developments that may well have ushered in a …
Reflections from Next Frontiers 2023
Next Frontiers challenged my thinking. An injection of new concepts, and a glue to join together ideas that were already buzzing around my mind. I also met 3D versions of people I knew only from …
21st century philanthropy: A tool all of its own
Returning from the Next Frontiers conference thoughts were flowing around my mind at such a pace it was difficult to catch even one. Yet, of all the provocations and calls to action I heard during …
New thinking needed for funding in a complex world
Public and private funders around the world are rethinking how best to invest their resources to tackle the world’s most intractable social issues. These so-called ‘wicked problems’ — including climate change, poverty, and pandemics — …
From the fringes, to next frontiers
We thought the Next Frontiers conference was an amazing space for activating the mind, and for signposting all the different actors and leaders in the space. We feel intense gratitude to the Joseph Rowntree team, …
Deep mindset shifts and the importance of economic democracy
At the Impact Investing Institute, we connect capital to impact. We believe mainstream capital markets have the power to scale new economic ideas needed to provide solutions to the great challenges of our time. Next …
