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Tag: accountability

Courage required for a big course correction
Matthew Reed, CEO @Childrensociety & CEO designate @MarieCurieUK, reflects on the change ahead required to lead and renew civil society.

Dealing with our profound crisis of listening
Carol, Chief Executive of the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF), reflects on a profound crisis of listening, and what the Inquiry findings might mean for the funding ecosystem.

The future is here and it is unevenly distributed
Bob Thust and Esther Foreman on how power, accountability, connection and trust resonate. They are the fundamental building blocks that will allow us to rise to the many challenges we face and we all have a responsibility to act.

A letter from young people to English civil society
Dear English Civil Society: A day ago we didn’t know each other. We came into a room, full of honesty, vulnerability and a deep desire for change. We quickly realised we were all telling the same stories from different corners of the same country. We urgently need to tell those stories, we need you to …

From murky to making it happen: getting local power in the North East
How to get to the world as it should be? That was the question we vowed to tackle as we kicked off the third of three Civil Society Futures workshops on local decision making in the North East.

(How) can funders really challenge power?
Funding... too often tightly controlled by a cautious, privileged few? Edge Fund is a grant-making body with a difference.