Open For All Programme
A collaboration between IVAR, Third Sector Lab, NPC and Open For All Ltd.
The Open For All programme aims to support funders, charities and other organisations to share knowledge for social and environmental impact - from community insight to research, evaluation and organisations’ learning.
The Open For All programme is built around groups exploring how to open up practice and knowledge, and sharing what they find to help others share and work openly too.
We are grateful to the William Grant Foundation for its funding of the Open For All programme.
Open Knowledge Working Group
An Open Knowledge Working Group led by IVAR, as part of the Open & Trusting Funding Initiative, which will explore why and how funders should share and support shared knowledge.
The Open Knowledge Working Group is a small, strategic space for people who take a broad view of the sector to work through the underlying principles: the case for openness, the real barriers and risks, and what a genuine mindset shift looks like for funders. It's 8 to 12 organisations, meeting monthly and starting this autumn, with four sessions to begin with.
Open Working Programme
An Open Working Programme led by Third Sector Lab, which will support people working in funding organisations to work more openly, and support knowledge sharing practically.
The Open Working Programme is a practical cohort running over eight weeks, which will help you build the confidence, skills and habits to share more of what you are doing, learning and deciding as you go. It will help you move practically from thinking about how to share knowledge and support sharing, to exploring how best to do that in your work as a funder.
If you work in funding and are interested in getting involved, please consider joining either or both of these groups. If you are interested in your organisation being involved in both groups, we suggest that someone with a strategic level view of the sector joins the Open Knowledge Working Group, and someone involved in the practice of knowledge and learning joins the Open Working Programme.
Opening Up Impact community
An Opening Up Impact community call led by Open For All Ltd., which will bring together people and organisations working on open knowledge, tools and approaches to learn from each other and accelerate their efforts.