Practical thinking for
foundation portfolios.
Clear guidance on shared communications capacity, reporting, evidence, websites, and funder-sponsored cohort programmes.
Practical questions
funders need to answer.
Written for programme, communications, strategy, learning, and grantmaking operations teams.
These articles focus on decisions funders can make to reduce duplicated effort and strengthen communications and reporting capacity across a portfolio.
What funders should not ask every grantee to solve alone
A practical guide to identifying communications, website, evidence, and reporting needs that are better addressed through one shared programme.
When a portfolio needs shared communications standards
How to introduce a useful baseline across different organisations without flattening their voice, context, or ownership.
A practical way to improve reporting without creating another burden
How evidence inventories, story-capture tools, model narratives, and existing-tool dashboards can make reporting more useful without adding another system.
The first three pieces are in development. Each will be grounded in practical funder and grantee responsibilities.
Plain language.
Useful decisions.
We will publish practical guidance, not a glossary of proprietary terms. Every piece should help a funder understand a portfolio problem, choose an intervention, or set clearer responsibilities.
Start with
the Diagnostic.
The diagnostic turns a portfolio-wide capacity question into shared standards and a practical twelve-month roadmap.