Announcing our new Executive Director
We are thrilled to announce Nick Gardner as our new Executive Director.
Announcing our new Executive Director
We are thrilled to announce Nick Gardner as our new Executive Director.
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Watch | Report Launch: Exploring the role of wealth and philanthropy advisors in green giving
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.
What happens when you bring together 100 funders and fundraisers for a one-day conference?
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.
How can we improve funder-fundraiser relationships in the environment sector?
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 | Report Launch: Where the Green Grants Went 9
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.
Watch | GFF: Centralising youth voices in the environment sector
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.
Announcing our new report: Where the Green Grants Went 9
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.
Lessons and reflections from 15 years in the climate community
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.
Watch | GFF: Increasing the effectiveness of environmental funder-fundraiser relationships
Catch up on the September Green Fundraisers Forum meeting - in this session, Sophia covers our new report: Increasing the effectiveness of funder-fundraiser relationships.
How funders and EFN can support youth-led organisations catalysing youth-led nature recovery
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.
How gender-based violence affects environmental action | #IWD2024
This #InternationalWomensDay, we wanted to spotlight this incredibly important intersection: how gender-based violence affects environmental action.
Moving our finances out of fossil fuels
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.
Inspiring People: Supporting the emerging Scottish seaweed industry
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.
How to be a good environmental fundraiser
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.
Making climate action everyone’s business at the UK’s leading community funder
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.
Ancestral land rights of Indigenous Peoples are essential to conservation
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.
Mission critical: how third sector organisations can play to their strengths in responding to the climate emergency
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.
Inspiring People: Forgotten freshwater
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.
Inspiring People: the UK Overseas Territories
Sufina Ahmad, Director of the John Ellerman Foundation, speaks to Dr Esther Bertram, Annick Jackman and Hugh Raven about the UK Overseas Territories.
Watch | Training for environmental organisations: improving and communicating impact
EFN and New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) collaborated to deliver this training for environmental charities on what it means to be an impact-focused organisation
Watch | Fundraising training 1: digital fundraising during times of crisis: mistakes to avoid and opportunities to win
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 .
Watch | Fundraising training 2: find and build pandemic-busting corporate partnerships
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?
Watch | Fundraising training 3: Telling stories to inspire action
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.
Watch | Fundraising training 4: how to fundraise when it’s not your usual day job
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.
Watch | ReFrame: shaping frames and shifting culture workshop videos
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.
How connecting young people to their sense of rebellion, their values and their community can save the planet
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.
Rethinking consumerism for the sake of young people’s mental health (and the planet)
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?
The most effective environmental groups, as rated by their peers
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.
Some thoughts on systems change
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.