As philanthropy seeks more effective ways to support local actors in complex crises, Ukraine offers valuable lessons. Emerging experience suggests that combining organisational strengthening with care, reflection and flexible accompaniment can help local organisations sustain agency, resilience and impact when conventional support models reach their limits.

On the importance of fiscal hosting, why it matters for funders to clarify whether they accept fiscal hosts, and how clearer guidance could help more groups access funding.

Grant funders face increased challenges to the reputations. This article explores some of the key challenges and what organisations can do to reduce the reputational risks they face.

What makes communities capable of navigating disruption? The 2024 floods in Poland, Spain and Romania showed how community foundations, rooted in place, draw on deep relational infrastructure to hold communities together during crises.

What happens to trust when younger generations feel the system is no longer working for them?