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
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...
25 June 2025
Insights | How can funders be true partners in community-based social change?
During Catalyst Now’s Catalysing Change Week 2024, we gathered to explore this question:
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