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Making climate action everyone’s business at the UK’s leading community funder

John Rose, The National Lottery Community Fund Making climate action everyone’s business at the UK’s leading community funder

Posted on 16 May 2022

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 important issues such as the climate emergency. In this blog, John Rose discusses the work the National Lottery Community Fund is doing to take environmental action and support grant holders to be more sustainable and regenerative.

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Civil society organisations in the global South and disruptive change: implications for funders

Halina Ward and Tom Bigg, International Institute for Environment and Development Civil society organisations in the global South and disruptive change: implications for funders

Posted on 20 Dec 2016

Over the last year and a half or so, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has been working to understand how leaders of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the South experience, and engage with, disruptive change that has impacts on their organisations. Now a new report looks at the implications of disruptive change in Southern CSOs for funders.

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Valuing Ocean Experiments…Part II: the collaborator’s perspective

Giles Bristow, Forum for the Future Valuing Ocean Experiments…Part II: the collaborator’s perspective

Posted on 6 Sep 2016

As a group of Marine NGOs (loosely termed), we are a system, or perhaps more relevantly, we are an ecosystem. We have a loose common purpose, we relate to each other and our actions have consequences for each other, yet until now, we have barely been aware of each other and certainly did not collaborate and coordinate our activities. Not in any meaningful sense. Now this is changing.

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Back from the Brink

Marian Spain & Dr Mike Clarke Back from the Brink

Posted on 16 Dec 2015

Since EFN published Passionate Collaboration in 2013, 'Back from the Brink' has emerged -- a unique collaboration between eight organisations committed to making a collective impact for a common cause: bringing endangered species in the UK back from the brink.

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