Impact strategist and community builder, Chris Large, shares how philanthropists and innovators can stand together and ignite long-term renewal.
Change in Nature share a tried and tested framework for evolving how we do environmental work when we often feel so disconnected from nature and our creativity.
Fundraising consultant and GFF subgroup leader, Laura Perratt, shares ten tips and principles on balancing your organisation's values with long-term financial sustainability.
Explore what EFN has tried, learnt, and is planning to do to increase the support of neurodivergent people within EFN and across the environment sector.
This Lunch & Learn session, with Parisa Wright (Greener & Cleaner) explored two free opportunities designed to help projects strengthen their reach, impact and resilience.
This Lunch & Learn session, with Laura Perratt, explored due diligence and ethical fundraising.
Explore what we learnt from the IPBES 12 plenary meeting, including reflections of the impact of IPBES’s approach, accessibility and prompts for funders.
Here are nine recommendations to read and listen to from EFN’s second reading week.
CEO of Become United, Mohammed, shares his insights on the Race Equity in Nature conference and why we must boldly centre racial equity in our sector.
Our evaluators share the impact of the Leadership Lab programme for Scotland’s senior leaders so far.
This Lunch & Learn session, with Laura Perratt, explained exactly what the new UK charitable purpose soft opt-in legislation means for organisations, and shared practical steps to help prepare for this change.
Discover what we learnt about funder-fundraiser relationships, the current funding ecosystem and how we can improve it during our annual funder-fundraiser gathering.
Neurodivergent climate justice activist, Emma de Saram, shares important insights from her neurodiversity and climate workshop and research, as well as key recommendations for funders and environmental organisations.
By popular request, this session explored how LinkedIn can support fundraisers and connecting with donors.
This session explored how charities can use data to measure, understand and explain their impact with the support of PBE.
We explored WWF’s philanthropy journey and the challenges, opportunities and lessons learned along their way.
Explore reflections from the Green Fundraisers Forum’s nature retreat from the fundraisers that joined us.
Explore the lessons learnt from the Green Fundraisers Forum nature retreat and the transformative power of connecting with nature and each other.
This session covered corporate fundraising basics and explored the non-financial benefits corporates can offer, how your organisation can deliver value in return, and which industries to target for the best fit.
This session covered the basics on AI and fundraising, highlighted current tools and resources and explored future possibilities for the sector.
Discover more about the Leadership Lab development programme for senior Scottish environmental leaders.
Explore important findings on Scottish grants from our new report, Where the Green Grants Went 9: Scotland Edition.
This session explored how green finance can complement traditional grants and unlock new investment opportunities.
In this session, we heard from Andy about his experience leading a Christian environmental charity and explored tips on how to encourage charity Chief Executives to take an active, front-facing role in fundraising.
The Eating Better alliance shares their insights into the power of collaboration to help the environmental philanthropy sector thrive.
A session on how to engage the next generation of major donors.
In this session we heard from the MRU on their work supporting grassroot environmental action.
A workshop on creating a successful corporate fundraising strategy Steve Jones.
IMPACTWILD’s work focuses on transforming programming into a powerful tool to benefit the environment. This session focused on harnessing the power of impact production to protect nature.
What did we learn and enjoy from our first reading week? Here are eight recommendations to read, watch and listen to.
January's meeting focused on fundraiser wellbeing with psychologist Michelle Reynolds.
We are thrilled to announce Nick Gardner as our new Executive Director.
This is the launch event to highlight the key findings from our new report, Exploring the role of wealth and philanthropy advisors in green giving.
Oscar Brennecke-Dunn, our Events Coordinator, shares his reflections on our one-day conference that brought funders and fundraisers together to discuss how we can make environmental philanthropy work more effectively for everyone.
Sophia Cooke, co-author of our latest report, Increasing the effectiveness of environmental funder-fundraiser relationships, shares why we’ve researched this intersection, what we learnt and key takeaways for funders.
Watch our launch event for Where the Green Grants Went 9. Co-author Jon Cracknell and the EFN team summarises the key findings from the report and outlines clear next steps.
Catch up on the November Green Fundraisers Forum meeting. In this session, we covered the importance of including young people in environment and climate action.
Where the Green Grants Went 9 reveals that environmental grants from UK-based foundations have almost tripled since our last report in 2021 Yet, the report highlights worrying trends in environmental philanthropy that need addressing for the sector as a whole to maximise its potential.
Tom Brookes updates his 'Ten – reflections on a decade in the climate community' from June 2019, which shared key lessons on joining the climate movement. Now five years further on, Tom looks back on what he wrote and presents us with a revised and powerful: 14 reflections on 15 years in the climate community.
Catch up on the September Green Fundraisers Forum meeting - in this session, Sophia covers our new report: Increasing the effectiveness of funder-fundraiser relationships.
Jack Durant, the Co-Founder & Co-Director of Youngwilders, shares how funders and EFN stepped up to help their youth-led organisation in its early days by providing much more than financial support and helping them grow more effectively.
This #InternationalWomensDay, we wanted to spotlight this incredibly important intersection: how gender-based violence affects environmental action.
Following a decision by staff and trustees, in late 2023, we closed our business bank account with HSBC after reporting showed that they are still heavily financing fossil fuels. This blog shares our decision, the full letter and further resources for those interested in greening their finances as well.
In this episode, Grace Yu (Aurora Trust) speaks to Alison Baker (EcoCascade CIC), Jemima Cooper (EcoCascade CIC) and Dr Kyla Orr (KelpCrofters Ltd) about seaweed.
Being a good environmental fundraiser goes beyond simply securing funds. In this blog, Natasha Ratter, explores core qualities of being a good environmental fundraiser and illustrates the importance of finding your voice, understanding your role in the bigger picture, prioritising relationships and wellbeing, and joining a supportive community.
APRS Director, Kat Jones, shared lessons from the eight-year ‘Have you got the bottle?’ campaign for a deposit return scheme for Scotland with funders and other NGOs.
As the largest funder of community activity in the UK, The National Lottery Community Fund plays a critical role supporting communities to unleash their energy and potential, especially on the climate and environmental emergencies. John Rose discusses the work the National Lottery Community Fund is doing to take environmental action and support grant holders.
Katy Scholfield shares how the Arcus Foundation's Great Apes and Gibbons Program works to reconcile the well-being and resilience of local, Indigenous, and forest-dependent communities with wildlife conservation objectives.
Third sector organisations have a critical contribution to make in response to the climate emergency. But reducing their carbon footprints isn’t it. In this blog, Nick Addington offers some thoughts about a possible framework to help organisations think more broadly about their role and recognise opportunities to help achieve a sustainable future.
In this episode, Catherine Bryan (Synchronicity Earth & EFN) speaks to Brian Zimmerman (Bristol Zoological Society), Mike Baltzer (Shoal), Monti Aguirre (International Rivers) and Tess Gatan-Balbas (Mabuwaya Foundation) about freshwater.
Sufina Ahmad, Director of the John Ellerman Foundation, speaks to Dr Esther Bertram, Annick Jackman and Hugh Raven about the UK Overseas Territories.
EFN and New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) collaborated to deliver this training for environmental charities on what it means to be an impact-focused organisation
What is currently working well in digital fundraising, and what are some of the common pitfalls to avoid? Hear from an environmental charity which is raising money successfully through digital channels during the coronavirus crisis .
The full impact of coronavirus on the economy and your prospective corporate partners is still unknown. So how do you find out who to target, how to engage them, and how to secure them?
Bright Spot Director Rob Woods shares techniques to help you bring to life the key issues that your supporters care about, so that you talk and write less about what your charity does, and more in ways that help supporters want to take action.
A training webinar for anyone entering the world of fundraising and wanting to quickly learn the fundamentals. Are you a non-fundraiser who is now supporting your organisation’s fundraising? Or perhaps you’re very new to fundraising and want to learn the key principles.
With Ella Saltmarshe and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, EFN co-hosted a workshop for people from across the environment sector (funders and NGOs) on reframing issues.
Why we need to connect young people to their sense of rebellion to help improve their mental health and protect the environment at the same time.
British millennials have the second worst mental wellbeing in the world, second only to Japan. What if the solution to the mental health crisis facing young people is the same as tackling environmental degradation?
We asked 92 chief executives of environmental organisations, “Which non-profit UK environmental organisations (not including your own) do you think accomplish the most, given the resources at their disposal?” Here's what they told us.
It becomes clearer with each passing day that simply ameliorating current problems is not going to be sufficient. This blog is about how we might scale up transformative change.