Foundation & Funders

If you want to maximise the impact of your philanthropic or investment dollars, we can help in two ways:

First, we can help you strategically leverage your assets and influence.

You must be rigorous in your program design and funding decisions, and deliberate in your approach to collaboration. In order to demonstrate your effectiveness and make prudent decisions, you need a deep understanding of your impact and the ability to clearly articulate it to your internal and external stakeholders. Some of the vexing issues you may face include finding and assessing the right funding or investment opportunities, developing productive relationships with grantees and collaborators, understanding how you can catalyse or collaborate for greater impact, evaluating current strategies and foundation governance.

We can work closely with you to provide tailored, actionable insights and strategies to improve your effectiveness so that you can achieve your goal of high-impact funding.

Second, we can help you help your grantees.

Innovative and impact-driven grant makers are increasingly leveraging their investments by coupling direct grants with strategically delivered capacity-building support. With many social purpose organisations under-resourced and reliant on direct grants for personnel and programs, assigning additional, earmarked funds for capacity building is a powerful and cost-effective way to create a significant and sustained impact.

We can help you amplify the impact of your grants through strategically delivered capacity building support . We have extensive expertise partnering with foundations and funders to deliver capacity building support to grantees. This can take multiple forms including mentoring and coaching, developing bespoke Growth & Impact Action Plans and providing tailored expert advisory services.

How we can help

 

Developing & evaluating giving strategies

 

Developing new and impactful funding strategies to strengthen your ability to effectuate change and evaluating existing funding strategies.

 

Measuring & demonstrating impact

 

Measuring the impact of your grants and other investments and working collaboratively to demonstrate and articulate your impact to your board and stakeholders and make better informed decisions around resource allocation.

 

Partnership development

 

Researching and evaluating whether collaboration and partnership opportunities are right for your organisation and facilitating collaborative funding opportunities.

 

Blended finance

 

Helping your trust or foundation to strategically leverage its corpus and philanthropic funds together in order to catalyse and maximise impact.

 

Impact investment strategy

 

Supporting your impact investment strategy through our range of services for impact investors.

 

Workshop & strategic session facilitation

 

Facilitating strategic meetings, training days and running a range of specialist workshops.

 

Due diligence

 

Helping you to assess granting or investment opportunities.

We can also help you help your grantees

The Social Impact Hub has extensive expertise partnering with foundations and funders to deliver capacity building support to grantees. This can take multiple forms including mentoring and coaching, developing bespoke Growth & Impact Action Plans and providing tailored expert advisory services.

Other ways we can support you

 
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A thought-leadership project connecting impact investors with investment opportunities.

On the Impact Investment Hub, foundations and funders can learn the fundamentals of impact investment, gain an understanding of the players of the Australian impact investing ecosystem via our deals map and search our deals library for live impact investment opportunities.

 
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This guide provides practical strategies and support for Australian charitable trusts and foundations interested in using impact investing to amplify the impact they can make in their communities and the world more broadly, and also includes details of recent deals, market trends, and initiatives to grow the ecosystem.

 
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A thought leadership project transforming the way we think about charities and giving.

The Funding for Impact website is a resource hub for funders, not-for-profits and the media containing practical information, tools and best practices for funders and not-for-profits looking to move towards funding for impact.

 
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An innovative capacity building initiative empowering Australian organisations to tackle complex problems.

Solve It, Australia is part of the Funding for Impact initiative and it provides organisations with the training, tools and potentially even funding need to tackle complex problems. In 2019 we worked in collaboration with the Paul Ramsay Foundation to devise a tailor-made $900,000 capacity building funding opportunity in the months following the Solve It, Australia Masterclass and can work with other funders to do similarly.

Our work in action

 
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Paul Ramsay Foundation

We helped Paul Ramsay Foundation to devise, implement and administer an innovative $900,000 grants program that democratised their philanthropy and built capacity around complex problem solving. This program followed our Solve It, Australia! educational initiative to bring high quality problem solving skills to the social sector.

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IAG Foundation

We assessed the impact of IAG Foundation's community engagement initiatives on employee engagement and provided a detailed report, including recommendations for presentation to the IAG Foundation Board.

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Trawalla Foundation

We were engaged by Trawalla Foundation to help more children access high-quality educational toys to support play-based learning in their homes via the Toy Well. We created a plan for the roll-out of the Toy Well, which included researching and assessing potential partner organisations as well as potential avenues to source toys, staff, venues and the development of the parental education program and then implemented a pilot program for Toy Well at a number of locations in Sydney.

 

β€œThe Social Impact Hub are a passionate group of curious and clever individuals who were able to help us wade through complexity to identify the key issues for our team.”

IAG Foundation