Fast Build Friday

We have been receiving a lot of questions about how to structure funding awards to groups and organizations that are not formal charities. Funders want to support change, but have not made these types of grants before or have made them, but getting the funding out was a slow, complicated process.

We are in a moment when neither reality works.

Today’s Fast Build Friday episode is about making grants to organizations that are not U.S. public charities.

Nic offers 3 key recommendations that will help funders and these organizations sustain a movement, ideas, and change.

We will also provide a link to a previous FBF episode about effectively working with intermediary organizations, which may be another way to fund these organizations, here.

What are you seeing that we should know about? Let us know in the comments!

You can watch Episode 10 below.

How are you feeling?

Like so many of you, I oscillate between a state of speechlessness and being compelled to say something about this dark place and time in which we sit.

And because Black lives matter too, I am choosing to say something.

This Fast Build Friday Episode 9 is about the role of systemic racism in infrastructure. You will receive another Fast Build Episode this week, but we had to share this one now.

The sector is not immune to systemic racism. In fact, we build and structure on top of it.

So, I suggest four practical ways the sector can start to dismantle this system and build infrastructure to better respond to the needs of marginalized communities around the globe.

And we need to start immediately.

Can you hit *reply* and let me know how you are feeling?

Follow the link to watch this episode.

Our clients that are intermediaries are playing brave and crucial roles in so many countries around the world. They provide critical funding and support to grassroots organizations, leaders, and communities in need. We are amazed by the work they do to ensure that marginalized voices are heard.

Today’s Fast Build Friday topic is how to effectively work with intermediaries. In it, Nic shares two key criteria that she has seen show up in every intermediary relationship when things go right and when they do not….

How have you worked with intermediaries? Hit *reply* and let us know.

Follow the link to watch Episode 8.

Have you thought about how to start making grants internationally? And how to do it well?

Today’s Fast Build Friday topic is getting your infrastructure set up to make grants internationally.

Nic draws on her experience in international grant making to share a fundamental building block you need to get started….

A funding ecosystem. Few are deliberately designed, but all should be.

After all, our goal is to move funding seamlessly to communities around the globe who need it most. And you cannot move funding like that without Brave Infrastructure Design.®

What does your funding ecosystem look like?

Follow the link to watch Episode 7.