Last year, the Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting systems initiative—led by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and a Steering Committee of which the Skoll Foundation is a member—reflected on what more funders could do to better meet the moral imperative posed by global threats. Following deep discussion with funders, practitioners, and experts, the initiative released a report that directed funders’ attention toward their own norms and practices.
It synthesized the ways in which funders could ‘get out of the way’ of organizations driving systemic change: Streamlining applications and reporting; Collaborating more effectively; Accelerating impact through non-monetary support; Learning more about systems change; and Empowering grantees by consciously shifting power dynamics (SCALE).
This year, the initiative revisited the funder community’s role in responding to daunting and complex social problems—“pathologies of systems”—in partnership with grantees and with each other. It reviewed how funders are actually improving their policies and practices and—keeping in mind that peer-to-peer influencing is key to driving changes in funder behavior—learned from existing funder collaborative models that aim to change systems. Its many findings are synthesized in a new report, “Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems: Approaches for Impact, Approaches for Learning.”
[For more on this story by Gurpreet Singh, go to http://skoll.org/2018/09/24/sc...rd-shifting-systems/]
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