Your business may have been giving for years, but perhaps you aren't satisfied with the results of your giving. Undertaking a thorough review of your funding – looking at the business objectives, processes and grant history – can help you to achieve more, in terms of business and social impact. Some of your considerations may include:
Are we achieving our business objectives?
Are we having social impact?
Are the staff aware of our company’s giving and what do they think of it?
More structured giving
NPC was approached by a corporate foundation that wanted to make more impact on the areas they were funding. They were not looking for an alternative approach to grant-making; the existing arrangements, where staff could nominate charities, worked well. NPC suggested the foundation should segment its giving into two portions. One was a proactive portion, where the company selected a small number of charities within a specific focus area, with NPC's advice. The other portion remained free to respond to staff suggestions. Adopting a more structured approach to a part of the company's giving led to increased impact, without disengaging employees in the process.
Streamlined approach
A large company came to NPC for advice because they had too many small funding applications and wanted to get out of funding particular charities. NPC provided them with different options to approaches for filtering and selecting funding applications. We also helped them to think through how to manage the relationships with their grantees, enabling them to stop funding certain charities without impacting the organisations.