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Association of Charitable Foundations
The Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) is the membership body for UK foundations and grant-making charities.
Driven by a belief that foundations are a vital source for social good, their mission is to support foundations to be ambitious and effective in the way that they use their resources. They do this through the provision of policy and advocacy, research and information, and a wide-ranging programme of events and learning. They have over 400 members.
Grant Givers’ Movement
The Grant Givers’ Movement is a non-hierarchical gathering of those working in the grant giving sector. It’s a space for those who feel passionate about making positive change in and through the sector, to do so with collective power behind them.
The movement is an opportunity for people working in grant giving to collaborate. Together, we seek to challenge the status quo on issues such as where endowments are invested, where power lies, systems change and the role of philanthropy in tackling some of society’s most pressing problems. Ultimately, it’s about joining up and improving grant-making from within.
ACF Stronger Foundations
Stronger Foundations is a flagship ACF project that aims to help grant-making charitable foundations identify and pursue ambitious practice. We highlight the reports on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Transparency & Engagement. Also of relevance is the ‘cross-cutting themes’ report which includes a focus on ‘accountability’ and ‘power’ as two of the themes. The reports can be downloaded from the ACF website here.
The website includes a self-assessment tool for ACF members can use to assess themselves against pillars of stronger foundation practice.
Diversity
Why Diversity Matters
The McKinsey article explaining why diversity matters, most notably organisations that have a more diverse workforce preform better financially.
How to Build an Inclusive Workplace
Kazoo HR has published 15 tips on Building a More Inclusive Workplace in 2022.
Grantcraft
A US-based organisation. They produce helpful reports on DEI and foundation practice.
Ten Years’ Time
They aim to inject ambition, imagination, equity and justice into philanthropy, by reducing the proximity between financial wealth and community ‘wealth’.
DEI Data Group
The DEI Data Group is an independent working group convened by Fozia Irfan and Josh Cockroft, and includes a range of foundations and funders from across the United Kingdom. The key thread that connects these foundations is the understanding that without an effective framework to capture DEI data there can be no effective action to identify and target funding to address structural inequalities.
Funders for Racial Equality Alliance
The Alliance meets regularly to share learning and progress made in its pursuit of race equality. Equally Ours acts as secretariat, and you can read more about its early thinking here. It has developed an audit tool to help foundations decide what actions need to be taken. You can watch a webinar on how it works, view the downloaded presentation and also download the spreadsheet.
Guidance for Publishing in Welsh
The Welsh Language Commissioner (Comisiynydd y Gymraeg) has provided useful guidance for publishing resources in Welsh.
How to Write an Inclusive job Advert
Charity Digital publishes guidance on how you can be more digitally inclusive. For example, a key study shows that the average reading age in the UK is around nine years old.
Website Accessibility Support
The Shaw Trust offers a free accessibility snapshot services, as well as a more in-depth paid for accessibility assessment.
Gender Pay Gap Reporting
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has produced a useful guide for reporting the gender pay gap.
Accessible Communications Guidance
The UK government have published useful guidance on accessible communications.
Diversity Forum
Is a collective on a mission to drive inclusive social investment in the UK, through the convening of sector-wide groups, commissioning research, and knowledge sharing.
Their Steering Group meets 4 to 6 times a year and aims to provide leadership to the social investment sector on issues of diversity and inclusion, to enable:
- Social investors to make good and better investment decisions
- Sector employers to offer an inclusive workplace and better represent the people we fund, and
- An increase in the level of investment going to a greater diversity of groups.
Accountability and Transparency
IVAR (Institute for Voluntary Action and Research)
Over 80 grantmakers have signed up to eight commitments to funding charities in an open and trusting way. They hold regular meetings for people to reflect on and develop their practice and are working on a way for charities to hold open and trusting grantmakers to account.
360Giving
360Giving help organisations openly and consistently publish grants data, and help people use it to improve charitable giving.
GrantAdvisor
GrantAdvisor UK is an online service that facilitates open dialogue between third sector organisations and grantmakers by collecting authentic, real-time reviews and comments on grantseekers’ experiences working with funders to encourage more productive philanthropy. The approach aims to create honest and public feedback on grantmakers’ work, whilst also creating stronger peer sharing between third sector organisations.
GlassPockets
GlassPockets aim to bring transparency to philanthropy. Currently, at time of this writing. Currently, 109 foundations are registered.
Recruitment
Fair Recruitment tool – Charity Job
Charity Jobs has created a useful self-assessment tool on increasing fairer recruitment. You can access the recruitment tool here: https://tinyurl.com/3fdhvdx6
Charity Jobs Resources
Charity Jobs has created lots of useful resources on recruitment relevant to the charity sector.
Show the Salary Campaign
Show The Salary was born out of frustration at the lack of action being taken to address pay gaps and inequity in the charity sector. At the heart of our campaign is a commitment to fairness and equity, and to the people with lived experience of the impact of salary secrecy.