Welcome to the Trusts & Foundations Collection

The session will be presented by Fozia Irfan OBE, who has led the BBC Children in Need team, through the process of a new strategy and grantmaking process and is known for advocating for more equitable funding practices.

In this panel discussion, we will be: Chatting through the complexities of the situation, Dissecting strategies that trust fundraisers can employ to navigate this turbulent period, and Giving you tangible top tips to move forward in your trust fundraising

Watch the Grants and Major Donors Conference 20225 on demand for case studies and best practice to help you succeed.

This session explores how you win the hearts and minds of your Executive Team and Trustees by using data, insights and story telling.

Our global panel of experts will draw on decades of experience and insight perspective to share their predictions, and tell you what you need to consider when developing your trusts and foundations proposals going forward.

This session will look at three simple steps you can take to make your proposal stand out from the (ever-growing) mountain of paper on the Grant Manager’s desk.

Referencing the UK Government’s Green Book on project appraisal and evaluation, this practical and evidence-based session will draw on lessons from the HM Treasury process for developing ‘Five Case’ business cases and will offer advice on how we can all present the strongest possible case for support for our shared historic environment.

In this session, Bill Littlejohn, Senior Vice President and CEO of Sharp HealthCare Foundation in San Diego, California, will share perspectives on more than three decades of relationship development and management in the complex environment of healthcare in the USA, including how professional tenure and long-term strategy and planning is a key factor in elevating both relationships and philanthropy.

In this session, Laura talks openly about her own experiences as a trustee and why she would encourage others to take the plunge.

A series of one-to-one interviews, exploring global and regional trends in grant-making.

Whose job is it to fix the power imbalance between grant-makers and grant-seekers?

This session is all about good practice and ethical storytelling for writing grant applications how we can make sure that we’re not fitting the narratives of the work that we do into a perceived need.

The purpose of this session is to share key principles, techniques and examples to help fundraisers to develop deeper and stronger partnerships with funders across the world.

In 2020, Fundraising Everywhere launched the Fundraising Everywhere Foundation and has supported numerous causes over the past year. In this session the Foundation’s trustees talk about their experiences and decision making when awarding grants.

Find out behavioural science can be applied to trust fundraising.

In this session, long-term trust fundraiser Deanna Wolf shares her secrets to building relationships with many types of foundations.