The Funding Network
Funder
Location:
London + SW + Leeds + Scotland + Canada & growing Day job:
same as dream job Dream job:
expanding TFN to reach every major city in the world Film:
The Age of Stupid Original connection:
lizzie's crude passion & franny presenting crude at a TFN event Planning to spend profits on:
more TFN events... Giving money is one of the few significant activities that people do alone. We work together, eat together, dance together, yet mostly give alone. It is also an activity that we often feel is both important and confusing: important because we understand the need, confusing because we don’t know where to start, what to support among the plethora of appeals. We wonder what criteria we should use to say yes or no, what kind of giving makes the biggest difference. Our giving is often reactive, seldom strategic. Rarely are we in direct touch with the organisations we support, and even more rarely are we in touch with others asking the same questions, perhaps giving to the same causes.
The Funding Network brings people together to:
- act as a 'marketplace' to which individuals can bring projects which work towards a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable world.
- a mutually respectful setting where those who might like to join with others in funding such projects get to meet and hear those doing the work.
- promote a paradigm of social change giving: that those who have much can usefully share their wealth in creative and proactive ways, and that the process of giving can be enriching to the giver as well as to the receiver.
Those who attend talk about the privilege of actually meeting inspiring, dedicated people working for social change, about the warmth and friendliness of the atmosphere, about their amazement at what relatively small amounts of money can help achieve - and about their pleasure in helping to contribute that money.
