Partnership for organisations, businesses and trusts

On due diligence

Most institutional funders and companies run a due diligence process before making a grant, and we welcome it. We will complete your forms, provide governance and financial documentation, and answer questions about safeguarding and risk.

We would also ask you to look at how we report failure, because it tells you more about an organisation than its success metrics do. [Add links to the organisation’s published annual report and accounts once available.]

Skills we can genuinely use

Pro bono professional support is often more valuable to us than an equivalent sum of money, particularly in these areas.

• Monitoring and evaluation design, especially for long-horizon outcomes.
• Financial systems and controls, including for partner organisations.
• Safeguarding policy and practice in international contexts.
• Legal and compliance support across jurisdictions.
• Data, IT and information security.
• Translation and localisation of training material.

What we are usually less able to use is short-burst volunteering that requires significant supervision from a small team. We will tell you honestly if that is the case.

Sponsorship and brand association

We are open to appropriate corporate partnership and cautious about anything that looks like using the communities we serve as marketing material. Any use of our name or images is agreed in writing, and our consent standards for photography apply to your materials exactly as they do to ours.