This blog shares insights from TPI’s Senior Advisor, Jenny Ekelund about the changing scope and increasing importance of the Partnering for Philanthropic Impact programme, as the pandemic reveals new possibilities for foundations and partner grantees. When TPI set out early in 2020 to explore the landscape of foundations and partnering working with Pioneer Members Z […]
Archives for 2020
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: 5 week Partnering EssentialsTM – Online Course
Cross Sector Partnering is complex and challenging. Bringing people and organisations together from different sectors and keeping them together to deliver results is not easy. When partnering is ad hoc, directionless and unproductive, it can result in delays, extra costs, greater risks and diminished value for all involved. This comprehensive 5 week Partnering EssentialsTM Facilitated […]
From crisis collaboration to long-term partnering
How can value continue to be created over the long term? By Todd Kirkbride & Ian Dixon Summary Numerous new crisis collaborations are helping provide immediate solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of these partnerships will be explicitly temporary, designed to do a specific job in the particular context of COVID-19. Now that we are […]
How Can Partnerships Create Rapid Innovation During COVID-19 Crisis?
TPI’s Executive Director Darian Stibbe joined a Business Fights Poverty online discussion on 22 April 2020, to explore what we can learn from new partnerships emerging during COVID-19 and the innovations they are creating, with a focus on business-led partnerships. What many of these initiatives have in common is the willingness of organisations to work across sectors, pooling resources and […]
LEARNING FROM STARLINGS: How and why we collaborate more efficiently during crisis
By Dave Prescott, Creative Director of The Partnering Initiative and Victoria Thom, Principal of Synergy 2030. The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a global crisis, throwing us into uncertainty and complexity at a depth and scale that is very unfamiliar. Our health, economic, political and social systems are being stretched out of their traditional shape. While […]




