Author Archive:
Fran Perrin
Let’s ask more of grantmaking and not settle for the status quo
Questions can change the world. Space travel, stem cell engineering, the internet and all of man’s great scientific breakthroughs since the wheel started from challenging the status quo and asking ‘what if?’ Questions are powerful …
A pragmatic approach to transparency
‘Transparency for funders is a helpful idea, but it’s not a panacea. If private foundations and grantmakers think it is, then their attempts to bring a measure of sunlight to a sector shrouded in mist …
Foundation transparency: why it matters
A huge amount of work has gone into making international aid flows more open, resulting in the International Aid Transparency Initiative. The work was led by the UK, yet domestic grants made by UK foundations …
