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¡Súmate a nuestra comunidad!
¡Súmate a nuestra comunidad!

SOBRE NOSOTRAS

Creemos que las alianzas alineadas en valores entre financiadores y organizaciones son esenciales. Por eso ofrecemos herramientas prácticas, recursos y una vibrante comunidad para acompañar esta transformación.

  • Nuestra Misión

La misión de Better Funding es transformar el panorama filantrópico promoviendo prácticas de financiamiento equitativas y basadas en la confianza que empoderen a las organizaciones de base y fortalezcan cambios sostenibles liderados por las comunidades.

Nuestros Valores

TRUST & EQUITY

Promovemos prácticas de financiamiento equitativas basadas en la confianza, el respeto mutuo y la transparencia, desafiando activamente los desequilibrios de poder dentro del sector filantrópico.

SUSTAINABILITY & LONG TERM IMPACT

Priorizamos modelos de financiamiento que apoyen la sostenibilidad a largo plazo y el bienestar de las organizaciones de base, garantizando un cambio positivo y duradero en las comunidades.

APRENDIZAJE CIRCULAR

Fomentamos el intercambio recíproco de conocimientos y experiencias, promoviendo el beneficio mutuo y el aprendizaje continuo entre financiadores y organizaciones aliadas.

COLABORACIÓN NO EXTRACTIVA

Priorizamos narrativas auténticas y el intercambio de saberes, amplificando las experiencias vividas de las comunidades sin imponer narrativas externas.

SIMPLIFICACIÓN

Buscamos que los procesos y conceptos de financiamiento sean más accesibles y comprensibles, empoderando tanto a financiadores como a organizaciones comunitarias.

INTERSECCIONALIDAD

Valoramos la diversidad de perspectivas y experiencias, reconociendo que las realidades y posicionamientos únicos moldean nuestra comprensión de una práctica filantrópica equitativa.

RADICAL OPENNESS & HONESTY

Abrazamos la transparencia compartiendo abiertamente tanto los logros como los desafíos, para construir confianza y fomentar aprendizajes genuinos en el sector.

EMPOWERMENT & WELL-BEING

Centramos el bienestar de líderes y comunidades de base, reconociendo que las personas y organizaciones empoderadas están mejor preparadas para generar cambios positivos sostenibles.

¡Súmate a nuestra comunidad!

Nuestro Equipo

Emily Bild

Co-Directora

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Emily is an experienced, relationship-based grantmaker and non-profit leader, passionate about supporting non-profit organizations to effect change at the local and global levels.

Prior to establishing Better Funding with Mae, she worked for GoPhilanthropic Foundation for over eight years, joining as one of the first staff members, and helped establish more formal grant-making systems to enable the growth of the organization.

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Mae Ardón

Co-Directora

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Mae is a Guatemalan social justice and organizational leader with more than 13 years of experience spanning philanthropy and grantmaking, grassroots and community-based organizations, nonprofit leadership, and social enterprise.

Her work has focused on how power, relationships, and resources shape the ability of organizations and communities to exercise agency, strengthen their work, and sustain collective action over time.

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Tamanna Basu

Regional Lead: Asia

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Tamanna is a non-profit leader, fundraiser, and writer specialising in grassroots mobilisation for gender equity. She is passionate about channelling resources toward grassroots movements by connecting funders and organisations through partnerships that are founded upon trust, equity, mutual respect, and solidarity.

For more than eleven years, Tamanna has worked with Shakti Shalini,

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Milagros García

Visual Content Designer

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Milagros is a visual designer based in Argentina, focusing on editorial and digital work. Her practice centers on creating thoughtful visual systems that support clear and engaging communication across platforms, from social media to long-form publications.

Through her work with Better Funding, she contributes to the development of visual content that communicates new approaches to philanthropy, including trust-based funding and systems change. 

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Nuestra Historia

Better Funding nació de la experiencia práctica forjada a lo largo de años de escucha, aprendizaje y trabajo junto a líderes comunitarios en Latinoamérica, África y Asia.

Nuestro camino comenzó en el corazón del trabajo comunitario, donde fuimos testigas de un desafío compartido que se repetía en distintos países y contextos: los modelos tradicionales de financiamiento — moldeados por dinámicas de poder coloniales, requisitos rígidos y relaciones transaccionales, no solo son limitantes, sino que atentan activamente contra la sostenibilidad. Esos modelos construyen barreras en lugar de generar confianza.

En 2019, nuestros caminos se cruzaron en GoPhilanthropic Foundation, una organización pionera en financiamiento basado en la confianza desde 2011. No fue solo la misión lo que nos atrajo, sino la posibilidad real de hacer las cosas de otra manera. Habiendo trabajado en organizaciones aliadas de GoPhilantropic en India y Guatemala, habíamos experimentado de primera mano lo que una alianza basada en confianza podía lograr

En GoPhilantropic, asumimos roles que nos permitieron escuchar profundamente, desafiar lo establecido y co-crear alternativas. Junto a nuestras aliadas, redujimos la carga de los reportes, reimaginamos la forma en que se tomaban decisiones y ampliamos el apoyo más allá de lo financiero, ofreciendo fortalecimiento organizacional a medida y facilitando redes de aprendizaje en Asia y Latinoamérica. Estos cambios no fueron simples ajustes operativos, tuvieron un impacto tangible en la sostenibilidad de las organizaciones y en el bienestar de sus liderazgos.

Cuando GoPhilantropic tomó la decisión de cerrar sus puertas, se nos presentó una oportunidad poco común: diseñar un plan de cierre basado en la confianza, en el que las organizaciones aliadas estuvieran en el centro, acompañadas y fortalecidas durante la transición.

Pero ese no fue el final. En muchos sentidos, fue apenas el comienzo. A medida que el panorama de financiamiento global se transformaba — con recortes en la cooperación internacional, mayor inestabilidad y desigualdades crecientes — la necesidad de un cambio sistémico se volvió aún más urgente. Y sabíamos que teníamos algo valioso que ofrecer.

Better Funding surgió no solo de nuestras propias convicciones, sino también del aliento de nuestras aliadas, quienes nos dijeron:

“Necesitamos más financiadores que trabajen así.”
“Por favor, que esta forma de trabajar no desaparezca.”

Este proyecto es nuestra respuesta, y también nuestra invitación.

Through Better Funding, we are building a living, collaborative resource to amplify what works in equitable philanthropy. We are partnering with funders and grassroots leaders to share stories, co-develop tools, and pilot new ways of giving that are more aligned, more human, and more sustainable.

Esto no se trata solo de arreglar un sistema roto. Se trata de reimaginarlo en conjunto. Creemos que cualquier financiador, en cualquier lugar, puede adoptar estos principios. Y estamos aquí para hacer que ese camino sea claro, valiente y colaborativo.

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Emily Bild

Co-Director & Regional Lead: Europe

Emily is an experienced, relationship-based grantmaker and non-profit leader, passionate about supporting non-profit organizations to effect change at the local and global levels. 

Prior to establishing Better Funding with Mae, she worked for GoPhilanthropic Foundation for over eight years, joining as one of the first staff members, and helped establish more formal grant-making systems to enable the growth of the organization.

Having spent many years working within the non-profit sector, often for small, community-based organizations, Emily was driven to ensure that GoPhilanthropic’s funding practices were as accessible and transparent as possible for busy non-profit organizations. She is proud to have been able to integrate Trust-Based Philanthropy practices into all aspects of GoPhilanthropic’s work and to build a culture that addressed some of the inherent power imbalances between funders and grantees. Emily has over 20 years of experience working in the NGO sector, across Africa and Asia, and spent over a decade based in India working on child rights.

Alongside her role at Better Funding, Emily is also the Foundation Manager for Texel Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Texel Group. Her role is to identify and support non-profit partners working on health, education, social mobility and artistic opportunity for this dynamic corporate foundation.

In 2024, Emily completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Philanthropy, Grantmaking and Social Investment at Bayes Business School, City University, London, conducting research on critical topics such as diversity, equity and inclusion, and power dynamics in philanthropy. Emily is an active trustee for Railway Children, an NGO working on child protection in the UK, India and Tanzania, and Chairs their Programme Committee.

Mae Ardón

Co-Director & Regional Lead: LATAM and North America

Mae is a Guatemalan social justice and organizational leader with more than 13 years of experience spanning philanthropy and grantmaking, grassroots and community-based organizations, nonprofit leadership, and social enterprise.

Her work has focused on how power, relationships, and resources shape the ability of organizations and communities to exercise agency, strengthen their work, and sustain collective action over time.

At Better Funding, Mae co-leads organizational strategy and development while leading the organization’s work across Latin America and North America. She works with funders, intermediaries, grassroots organizations, and social justice leaders to bring movement and community perspectives into philanthropy and strengthen funding practices. She also works directly with funders to translate their values and commitments into practice, helping them strengthen processes, approaches, and ways of working with partners. Her work includes facilitating cross-regional learning, developing practical resources, building partnerships, and contributing to Better Funding’s long-term sustainability and resource mobilization. 

Before co-founding Better Funding, Mae spent five years at GoPhilanthropic Foundation, where she managed partnerships with grassroots organizations across Latin America and later served as Manager of Strategy and Transformation. Her work combined grantmaking with organizational accompaniment, learning, leadership development, and resource mobilization. She also helped develop and accompany the Latin America Learning Network, which evolved into Red MAIIS: an autonomous, peer-led network of organizations from Mesoamerica sustained by its members.

Earlier in her career, Mae held leadership and development roles with organizations working alongside Maya women, people with disabilities, and Indigenous communities in Guatemala. Her experience has included organizational strategy and operations, rights-based advocacy, leadership development, fundraising, community initiatives, and building relationships across organizations and networks.

Mae also serves as Board Secretary at CIRCULA – Center for Restorative Leadership. Her training and ongoing work with CIRCULA have shaped a leadership practice grounded in relationships, care, accountability, shared responsibility, and restorative approaches to navigating conflict and change.

Mae holds a B.A. in Law and Social Sciences and has continued her professional development in fundraising, sustainability, restorative practices, leadership, and collaboration. Across her work, she is particularly interested in creating the organizational and funding conditions that enable people to exercise greater agency, work collectively, and sustain social change over time

Tamanna Basu

Regional Lead: Asia

Tamanna is a non-profit leader, fundraiser, and writer specialising in grassroots mobilisation for gender equity.

She is passionate about channelling resources toward grassroots movements by connecting funders and organisations through partnerships that are founded upon trust, equity, mutual respect, and solidarity.

For more than eleven years, Tamanna has worked with Shakti Shalini, a grassroots organisation working for gender equality in India. She has led the organisation as well as managed its fundraising, partnerships, project designing and implementation. Apart from Shakti Shalini, Tamanna has worked with Civis as a fundraiser and with Haq: Centre for Child Rights in research and communications. This rounded experience in the social sector has made Tamanna deeply empathetic to the severe resource crunch within which non-profits are trying their best to make a sincere, meaningful, and lasting change in the lives of people and alerted her to how essential it is to channelise resources toward such organisation in a manner that is supportive and collaborative.

Tamanna completed her M.Phil. in Literature in 2019 from Delhi University with a specialisation in researching and studying narratives of domestic violence survivors in South Asia. She has taught Literature to undergraduate students at Ashoka University, Haryana, and Nirma University, Gujarat, and been a member of the General Bodies of two Delhi University colleges. Tamanna also regularly contributes writing in the form of book reviews, author interviews, academic chapters to books and journals. Tamanna’s academic training in research and writing has played a crucial role in representing and communicating grassroots realities to funders and donors across the world.

Milagros García Perretti

Visual Content Designer

Milagros is a visual designer based in Argentina, focusing on editorial and digital work. Her practice centers on creating thoughtful visual systems that support clear and engaging communication across platforms, from social media to long-form publications.

Through her work with Better Funding, she contributes to the development of visual content that communicates new approaches to philanthropy, including trust-based funding and systems change.

She is particularly interested in how design can translate complex ideas into accessible and meaningful narratives.

With a background in graphic design, Milagros brings a strong sensitivity to composition, typography, and visual storytelling. Her approach combines structure and experimentation, balancing clarity with an expressive visual language.

Her practice is driven by an interest in culture, art, and communication, and a desire to create work that not only informs, but also connects and resonates.