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How funders can use adaptive strategy

Oct 22, 2024 | thinknpc.org | Naomi Chapman

As funders emerged from the challenges of Covid-19 and the cost of living crisis, many felt that their previous strategies were no longer fit for purpose and began the work of developing a new one. Many funders paused their grant making while they did so. At first glance, for each funder making this decision, it makes sense. Strategy should change with these seismic shifts in the external environment.
The Bromley Trust

Jul 30, 2024 | thinknpc.org | Liz Gadd |Naomi Chapman

The challengeThe Bromley Trust is an independent grant-maker supporting work on human rights and prison reform in the UK. Following the recruitment of new trustees and in the context of a rapidly changing external environment, the Trust was looking for support to engage the board and refresh its strategic framework. The Bromley Trust wanted this strategy to consider how it could maximise its impact, building board consensus on core strategic questions.
Five steps to an adaptive strategy

May 20, 2024 | thinknpc.org | Naomi Chapman |Mike Adamson

For anyone tasked with strategic decision-making, the past few years have felt like one crisis after another: Brexit, Covid, the cost-of living crisis, and climate change. And yet we see charities adapting, reprioritising, and finding ways to navigate the ever-changing context for their work. In an era of permacrisis, fixed strategies have limited value. Instead, strategy needs to be adaptive, evolving into a process of ongoing decision-making.
Tommy's - Working With NPC - Charity Experts

Mar 6, 2024 | thinknpc.org | Liz Gadd |Naomi Chapman

The challengeTommy’s is a pregnancy charity working to stop the heartbreak and devastation of baby loss and make pregnancy and birth safe for everyone. With a new CEO in post, and the previous organisational strategy coming to an end, Tommy’s was looking for support to bring staff, trustees, and people with lived experience together to develop a new long-term strategy for the charity.
12 things charities that centre ‘lived experience’ get right

Jan 9, 2024 | alliancemagazine.org | Naomi Chapman

The charity sector is waking up to the value of lived experience – the insights of people directly affected by an issue. There’s a growing recognition that involving people with lived experience in decision-making is beneficial for all organisations in the social sector. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to make it happen. It can be hard to know how to get started. And it can be even harder to know what exactly you’re aiming for.
Entries open for the Charity Governance Awards 2024

Nov 28, 2023 | thinknpc.org | Naomi Chapman |Flora Charatan

The Charity Governance Awards are back for 2024, so join us in celebrating excellence in governance across the UK. At NPC we’ve worked with the Clothworkers’ Company over many years to support and promote good governance, something which is critical to improving charities’ impact. The Charity Governance Awards shine a spotlight on the best charity leadership across the sector and demonstrate how effective governance can transform both a charity and the lives of the people that it serves.
What is Open Philanthropy?

Sep 21, 2023 | thinknpc.org | Naomi Chapman |Tris Lumley

Earlier this year, we awarded more than £500,000 in grants to organisations tackling financial hardship and individuals experiencing financial hardship through our inaugural Open Philanthropy fund, which sought to demonstrate the benefits of inclusive and transparent grant-making.
Autism Acceptance Week

Mar 27, 2023 | thinknpc.org | Cristina Andreatta |Naomi Chapman

I was diagnosed with autism at the age of three, and it has undeniably affected the course of my life, including my career choices. My first job after university was a Researcher role at NPC (I’m now a Consultant), and when I look back, it makes sense that I’ve taken that career path. In some ways, I’ve always been a researcher. A lot of autistic people have “special interests”: highly focused interests or hobbies that they see as fundamental to their wellbeing and happiness.
It’s time charities and funders talked about the environmental drivers of mental health

Feb 2, 2023 | thinknpc.org | Liz Gadd |Naomi Chapman

The causes of mental ill-health are complex and varied, and how we look at mental health issues is too narrow. Our culture generally holds, in uncomfortable tension, two common paradigms. One paradigm is that mental health is a mindset—if you just get a grip on your thoughts then your mental health issues will go away—the government’s love affair with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is one example of this in action.