Supporting Social Change : A New Funding Ecology

This report, produced by the community interest company Collaborate and commissioned by the Big Lottery Fund and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, argues that strong ideas and bottom-up social change initiatives are undermined by a lack of strategic collaboration between the individuals and institutions that fund them.Based on interviews and focus groups with leading independent funders, the report says that in order to change systems and help projects to become more effective, funders should see their role less as "guardians of self-identified change" and more as partners in an ecosystem of support for others