How we fund

TAI offers a platform for candid, constructive exchange around grantmaking practices. Our members learn from each other and hold each other accountable to be more inclusive, equitable, innovative, and effective grantmakers.

We supports partners to harness transparency, participation and accountability for the public good, and these are also our values we want to live by.

How TAI works

Partner support

We help donor members work together to improve grant making practice and
boost collective impact. Specifically, TAI aims to accomplish the following:

Collaborate on selected projects, initiatives, and campaigns that require greater collective action and attention.

Enhance diversity, equity and inclusion practices in our own foundations and in our partners.

Exchange experiences and test ways to enable more equitable funder-grantee relationships.

Expand the proportion of our grantees receiving flexible support.

Improve our use of both financial and nonfinancial tools

Learn from each other (and other nonmember funders) to inform our strategy designs, explore complementarities, and test assumptions

Let the TAI Secretariat know how we can help.

Funder exits

Funders regularly adapt their strategies, which often prompt investment in new issue areas, but also the tough decision to scale back or fully wind down funding for existing portfolios. These funding “exits” are a painful reality, especially for impacted grantees, but also other funders of that field. However, they can be managed in responsible ways.

TAI members use our platform to regularly discuss how to handle exits, to encourage good practice, and to manage the knock on effects for a field. We have been trying to document learnings as in this blog. Are you planning a funding exit? Interested in how other funder approaches? Donʼt hesitate to get in touch.

Participatory Strategy

TAI offers a platform for candid, constructive exchange around grantmaking practices. Our members learn from each other and hold each other accountable to be more inclusive, equitable, innovative, and effective grantmakers.

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Transparency and Accountability Initiative Resources

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Blogs
(Summary) Fighting Online Lies and Deception Requires Large-Scale Philanthropic Response
While preventing all mis- and disinformation is a daunting task, a comprehensive effort can significantly minimize harm. It's time for philanthropy to confront this crisis with the seriousness it deserves and work together to build a healthier information ecosystem.
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Reports
BETTER ACCOUNTABILITY, BETTER FINANCE
Our Better Accountability, Better Finance consultation paper calls for stronger accountability and transparency in climate finance to unlock the trillions of dollars needed to help the world achieve climate-positive growth and development goals. “Green Accountability” could save more than $100bn a year across public climate finance flows and avoid 3GT of annual GHG emissions, by improving the current system in which some 75% of committed funds remain unspent or undeployed.
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Library
The recently released Future of Philanthropy Report suggests a need for more, and more useful, data in philanthropy and the need for philanthropists to collaborate not just with each other, but also across sectors.
The recently released Future of Philanthropy Report suggests a need for more, and more useful, data in philanthropy and the need for philanthropists to collaborate not just with each other, but also across sectors.
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