INSIGHTS
This is where stories live.
Our Insights are co-created reflections, conversations, and creative expressions from people who are reshaping how funding works from the ground up.
Here you’ll find blogs, interviews, podcasts, artwork, and shared narratives from grassroots leaders, funders, and community builders across the world.
These pieces aren’t just information, they’re invitations. To listen. To feel. To learn alongside us.
Every voice here is part of a larger story: that funding can be done with more care, more trust, and more humanity.

- Insights
20 October 2025
Insights | Funding that builds stronger organizations
TARA Child Protection and Empowerment runs a number of child protection and empowerment programs in New...
20 October 2025
Reflections from the Central America Donors Forum 2025
Reflections from CADF 2025: Better Funding conversations
A couple of weeks ago, we attended the Central...
29 September 2025
Perspectivas | Fondos de libertad (financiamiento flexible)
Fondos que liberan
Las organizaciones civiles no lucrativas nos hemos encargado de proponer resoluciones...
08 September 2025
Insights | Funders as sounding boards - support beyond the grant
“Co-creating along with funders is a beautiful experience and that is how the relationship should be.”...
03 September 2025
Perspectivas | Enraizados en conexión: Reimaginando la filantropía a través de una red de organizaciones de base en Latinoamérica
En julio de 2025, celebramos en silencio un hito importante: un año desde nuestro último encuentro presencial....
12 August 2025
Insights | Rooted in connection: Reimagining philanthropy through a grassroots network in Latin America
In July 2025, we quietly celebrated an important milestone: one year since our last in-person gathering....
12 August 2025
Insights | From a community of time-limited grantmakers: Tune In, Spend Out.
In Autumn 2024, a group of UK trusts and foundations came together for a collaborative learning journey...
18 July 2025
Insights | 10 practical ways to shift power
How can funders take practical steps toward equity and shared power in their relationships with community-based...
17 July 2025
Insights | Why Better Funding?
Why Better Funding?
In this short video, co-founders Mae Ardón and Emily Bild share the origins...
14 July 2025
Insights | Funding that allows growth
When funding is trust-based, long-term and flexible, it strengthens an organization and allows...