Publications & Tools

From the Funding for Real Change collaboration with Edge, this toolkit focuses on supporting funders that want to learn more about providing multi-year core, flexible funding. “To help funders and nonprofits harness this positive momentum for change, we offer this tool kit of tactics, resources, examples, and starting points. We seek to equip trustees, CEOs, program officers, and grantees themselves to overcome board biases and other barriers, to accelerate the shift to multiyear, flexible funding, and to embrace practices that create the greatest impact and strongest partnerships with their grantees.”

Ariadne and EDGE Funders Alliance came together to create this website in order to acknowledge that project-restricted funding will most likely continue to be the most common way of supporting grantees while also advocating for a future where multi-year flexible funding is more common. Much of the data on this site is developed by Humentum and MilwayPLUS, facilitated by BDO FMA and resourced by Funders for Real Cost, Real Change (FRC) Collaborative and the Ford Foundation.
Explore the range of practices on this site to see how you can create impact and strengthen organizations for the long term by building more flexibility and trust into your grantmaking.