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.

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
9 tips for doing a participatory strategy (Part I)
Last year, the Transparency and Accountability Initiative brought together five practitioners of participatory strategy from international NGOs, nonprofits, and philanthropic funder networks to share their insights into what truly matters when embarking on this journey.
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Blogs
Ups and downs in governance funding – what the latest ODA numbers can tell us (and what they can’t)
In this blog, we analyze the overall increase by funding modality and designation to COVID-19. We look at which funders increased and decreased funding and what kinds of non-government organizations received the most funding.
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Reports
Mobilizing citizens to investigate corruption and demand government action in Nigeria
This report is part of a series of D4A outputs including a scoping report for Nigeria; landscape reviews for Nigeria and Colombia; notes about donor collaboration in Nigeria and Colombia, and GI’s role as a learning partner; pieces drawing lessons from the work in Nigeria (this report) and Colombia, and a note reflecting on the implications of these findings for future donor investments.
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