Safeguarding for foundations: Thinking through your approach
ACF has produced a framework to help foundations think through their approach to safeguarding, based on extensive engagement with members.
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View detailsAssessing and selecting the work we support
Here we look at making a good assessment and using it to support grant decisions which are consistent and well informed.
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Good Practice Guide for Corporate Foundations | A guide for those interested in the establishment and ongoing effectiveness of corporate foundations. |
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Promoting our priorities and how to apply | Here we look at how to promote our foundation’s programmes and priorities to potential applicants in order to encourage suitable applications – and to discourage unsuitable ones. |
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Firm Foundations: Setting your grant-making strategy | Here we look at how to create a grant-making strategy that is right for the particular circumstances of your foundation. |
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Developing decision making processes and tools | Here we look at the different approaches to managing our application and decision making processes. |
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Guidance for grant-making charities on SORPs 2015 | This guidance highlights changes in the new charities SORP that are likely to be of specific interest to grant making foundations. |
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Funders’ Principles and Drivers of Good Impact Practice | This framework is designed to encourage good impact practice and to offer practical and useful guidance for funders. |
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Spending Out - Making it Happen | This guide focusses on the practicalities of spending out and is targeted at foundations which have decided this is the path for them. |
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Good Practice for Corporate Foundations | This Guide is written to assist both those already funding or operating a corporate foundation and those considering doing so. |
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Spending Out: learning lessons from time-limited grant-making | This booklet provides guidance for trustees of charitable foundations which draws in particular on the experiences of foundations with a limited life span. |
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Tackling External Grant Fraud | An introductory paper which outlines the important role which trustees play in developing an anti-fraud culture within a grant-making trust. |
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