Unrestricted Funding: A Practical Guide for Funders
With Philea, we developed a guide for funders, serving as a toolkit for addressing practical concerns and a place that invites mutual learning. About the guide Unrestricted funding remains unusual across much of philanthropy. Many funders and grantees agree it strengthens organisations and shifts power, yet concerns linger – loss of control; reputational and compliance […]
Ruimte om te versterken: De ervaren effecten van exploitatiefinanciering op deelnemende organisaties
Wat doet exploitatiefinanciering met de ontvangende organisaties? Deze vraag legde het Oranje Fonds ons voor. Het Oranje Fonds kende in de periode 2024-2026 vrij besteedbare exploitatiefinanciering toe aan twaalf bestaande partners. Deze pilot past in een beweging naar meer flexibele of trust-based financiering die we zien bij verschillende filantropische fondsen in Nederland en daarbuiten. In […]
Measuring Nonprofit Capacities in the Context of Unrestricted Funding: A Case Study on Nonprofits Supporting Homeless People in the Netherlands
This publication is the result of the collaboration with Research Fellow Eline Crins. At the time, she was Head of Programs at Kansfonds, and she joined our team with great energy and a wealth of ideas on how research can meaningfully contribute to improving the philanthropy sector. One of the projects we worked on focused […]
Everyday organisational dilemmas and approaches when democratising philanthropy through trust-based philanthropy practices
This is another example of a productive international collaboration. What started at a session at ERNOP’s Safe Spaces programme, in which Pamala Wiepking was paired with Ane Grubb from the Danish foundation VELUX FONDEN, led to a peer-reviewed publication with multiple international co-authors in the Policy & Practice section of Voluntary Sector Review. The dominant model […]
Who Defines Success? An Annotated Bibliography on Community-Centered Measurement and Evaluation
📕 The Center for Grantmaking Research has curated a new annotated bibliography on community-centered measurement and evaluation, with sources compiled by Dr. Dana Doan, Dr. Nicole Marwell, and Dr. Jennifer Mosley. The repository brings together practitioner resources and academic scholarship exploring how communities can play a stronger role in defining success, generating evidence, and interpreting outcomes. […]
Terugblik: Inspirerende bijeenkomst “Filantropie vanuit vertrouwen”
Op 7 februari 2025 organiseerde het Center for Grantmaking Research van de Vrije Universiteit een inspirerende avond over “Filantropie vanuit vertrouwen” in samenwerking met Pakhuis de Zwijger. Tijdens het evenement gingen experts en ervaringsdeskundigen in gesprek over de impact van vrij besteedbare financiering en de rol van vertrouwen binnen de filantropische sector. Onder leiding van […]
Interview – The Power of Unrestricted Funding
In this interview, Anna Korzeniewska sat down with Pamala Wiepking to talk about the importance of unrestricted funding for nonprofits. Anna is currently a global philanthropy fellow at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy in addition to her important work as founder as the Social Impact Alliance for CEE. It can be viewed […]
Presentatie: Impact Trade Fair – duurzame filantropie
Tijdens de Impact Trade Fair op 10 april verzorgde Pamala Wiepking, namens het Center for Grantmaking Research, een college over duurzame filantropie. In haar presentatie ging zij in op wat filantropie inhoudt, hoe geefgedrag in Nederland zich ontwikkelt en welke rol institutionele filantropie speelt. Ook besprak zij belangrijke kritiekpunten en mogelijke verbeteringen. Bekijk haar presentatie […]
Curated Knowledge Repository on Trust-Based and Unrestricted Funding: An Annotated Resource Base for Funders and Practitioners
To support ongoing conversations on funding practices, the Center for Grantmaking Research has compiled a curated knowledge repository bringing together 55 essays, peer-reviewed articles, and media resources on trust-based grantmaking, unrestricted funding, participatory philanthropy, and learning-oriented accountability. ❇️ Interested? Click here to access the PDF. ❇️
New Publication: ‘Charity Lotteries in Philanthropy’ in the International Encyclopedia of Civil Society
Team members Wallace Watson and Pamala Wiepking recently wrote a piece in Springer’s International Encyclopedia of Civil Society on the role of charity lotteries in philanthropy. In this piece, they outline the development of charity lotteries within the philanthropic sector, examine their various organizational forms and ethical debates, and describe their changing role amid […]
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