{"id":999,"date":"2022-03-14T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/six.stimulatingminds.co.uk\/?post_type=programme&p=999"},"modified":"2022-07-06T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:06:56","slug":"six-funders-node","status":"publish","type":"programme","link":"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/programme\/six-funders-node\/","title":{"rendered":"SIX Funders Node"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dedicated to making philanthropy more innovative<\/strong>
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Foundations are well positioned to support experimentation and learning and to stimulate systemic change, but they often do not know how to access the best methods, tools, and approaches to achieve the impact they want to see, and they often work in their own silo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We support philanthropic foundations globally by helping them better understand where and how to fund, by building their innovation capacity, and by creating spaces for critical reflection on their role and practice. Through our work, we hope more philanthropic capital will be available for the use of social innovation to increase impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Why do we need to be make philanthropy more innovative?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


We believe that philanthropy can play an important role in ambitious social change, necessary to help solve the complex and urgent challenges our societies and planet face today. Our role in philanthropic spaces is not to support philanthropy, but to push it by exposing it to new ideas and perspectives, and to help the people involved learn from social innovation approaches and practice, in order to improve how it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We work with senior leaders who are ready for change. They come from across family, corporate and community foundations of different sizes. We bring in diverse voices from different sectors and geographies, drawing on SIX\u2019s network, in order to provide fresh perspectives for foundations – no organisation can be effective if they only work in their own silo. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Our small and intimate global retreats are a core part of the Funders Node programme. They allow foundations to step out of the day-to-day, learn from their peers, and connect on the questions keeping them awake at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What we do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We work with foundations in three interconnected ways. All our programmes can be delivered both offline and online.<\/p>\n\n\n

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1<\/mark> Hosting retreats for pioneering leaders<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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We bring together senior leaders from pioneering foundations to step out of the day to day and reflect on their own practice. We support them to think critically about topics beyond the buzzwords through:<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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