Cómo Trabajamos
Creemos que el conocimiento se amplifica a través de la conexión. Por eso colaboramos con líderes comunitarios, financiadores y agentes de cambio en diferentes regiones para documentar experiencias reales, explorar lo que funciona e imaginar nuevas posibilidades para la filantropía.
- Compartiendo Aprendizajes
Creemos que el conocimiento se amplifica a través de la conexión. Por eso colaboramos con líderes comunitarios, financiadores y agentes de cambio en diferentes regiones para documentar experiencias reales, explorar lo que funciona e imaginar nuevas posibilidades para la filantropía.
Through stories, conversations, tools, and creative expression, we share lessons that can help build more equitable and sustainable funding relationships grounded in trust, care, and mutual growth.
El contenido está disponible en inglés y español, y es creado con cuidado, coautoría e inclusión.
Perspectivas
Historias, reflexiones y contribuciones creativas de líderes comunitarios, financiadores y organizaciones aliadas. Aquí es donde compartimos lo que estamos aprendiendo en conjunto.
Herramientas
Recursos prácticos y enfoques basados en experiencias reales. Estas herramientas están diseñadas para apoyar prácticas de financiamiento más equitativas y basadas en la confianza. Están hechas para usarse, adaptarse y compartirse.
¿Te gustaría colaborar con nosotras para crear contenido?
- Colaboraciones Transformadoras
Turning better funding principles into everyday practice.
Better Funding works alongside funders to operationalize their values, strengthen their practice and experiment with different ways of working. Our goal is to help make funding more equitable, trust-based, relational and responsive — in ways that are practical for each organization and grounded in the realities of its partners.
There is no single starting point. We can work on one specific challenge or part of the funding process, support a new pilot or experiment, or accompany a deeper review of how an organization funds. Change can start small and develop over time.
Two ways we can work with you:
For grantmakers
A space to think, question and work through practice.
People working within funding institutions often encounter questions that do not have straightforward answers. Program officers, directors, trustees and other grantmakers may be trying to navigate power dynamics, challenge established processes, respond differently to partners, or introduce new practices within the constraints of their organization.
We provide one-to-one and small-group accompaniment and sounding-board support, creating a confidential space to work through these questions with people who understand both philanthropy and the realities of funded organisations.
This can include:- Thinking through a specific funding, partnership or organisational challenge.
- Exploring how equity and trust-based principles can translate into day-to-day decisions.
- Supporting grantmakers who are testing or advocating for different approaches within their institutions.
- Reflecting on relationships, power and accountability with funded partners.
- Connecting people with peers who are navigating similar questions and creating opportunities for exchange and mutual learning.
This support can be light-touch and occasional or develop into longer-term accompaniment.
For funding organizations
From values and intentions to systems, processes and practice.
We work with foundations, philanthropic organizations and other funders to examine how their values show up across the funding cycle, and where their systems or practices may need to change.
Depending on what is needed, we can review, redesign, facilitate or directly manage particular processes and programs.
This might include:- Funding processes: reviewing or redesigning applications, due diligence, decision-making, reporting, renewal and exit processes.
- Grantmaking and program management: designing and managing grant cycles, partner engagement and other funding processes.
- Partner identification and due diligence: identifying potential partners through our trusted networks, particularly in Latin America, India, Southeast Asia and the UK, or supporting contextual research, outreach and vetting in other regions.
- Beyond-the-grant support: designing responsive support that strengthens partners' organizational sustainability, fundraising, learning or other priorities identified by them.
- Piloting new approaches: helping funders design, test and adapt new funding practices before introducing them more widely.
- Learning and documentation: capturing and systematizing what emerges from pilots, programs and new ways of working so that learning can inform future strategy and practice.
- Transitions and exits: supporting funders to approach changes in strategy, program closure or funding exits more responsibly and relationally.
Our role can range from providing an outside perspective on an existing process to working alongside your team to design and implement something new.
Rooted locally, connected globally
Better Funding’s team works across regions, and we collaborate with a network of trusted, experienced practitioners and consultants with whom we have built relationships over many years. This allows us to bring together the expertise, languages and contextual knowledge that each collaboration requires rather than applying the same model everywhere.
We can work remotely or in person, and build teams across geographies when a project requires deeper regional knowledge or local relationships.
Our strongest networks currently span Latin America, India, Southeast Asia and the UK, while our wider relationships across philanthropy and civil society allow us to build context-specific teams for work in other regions.
Talk to us about working together.
- Comunidad de Práctica
Nuestra Comunidad de Práctica reúne a financiadores, líderes comunitarios y profesionales de la filantropía que comparten el compromiso de reimaginar cómo funcionan los mecanismos del financiamiento. Es un espacio colaborativo donde personas de todo el mundo intercambian historias, reflexionan sobre desafíos y co-diseñan prácticas más equitativas y basadas en la confianza.
¿Qué estamos construyendo?
Una red de aprendizaje incluyente y solidaria, basada en:
- Respeto mutuo entre roles y regiones.
- Diálogo sin juicios e intercambio abierto.
- Aprendizaje entre pares y saberes co-creados.
- Narrativas arraigadas en la experiencia vivida.
Este es un espacio para desmantelar jerarquías, amplificar el liderazgo comunitario y construir una comprensión
más profunda entre financiadores y organizaciones aliadas.
¿Cómo funciona?
- Sesiones de aprendizaje participativas.
- Intercambios acompañados entre pares.
- Casos de estudio con perspectivas regionales.
- Contenido co-creado en inglés y español.