Blog by TPI Associates – Todd Kirkbride and Ian Dixon. What happens when a football club hires the world’s best players for each position but continues to train them individually, rather than as a team adapting to each other’s strengths and weakness? Most certainly they will have a less than stellar winning record that will […]
TPI moderates event on COVID-19 and partnerships during UN High-Level Political Forum
TPI’s Executive Director Darian Stibbe moderated an international, multi-stakeholder panel discussion as part of the UN’s High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), focussed on partnerships against COVID-19 – building back better together to advance the 2030 Agenda. The panel was convened by the Partnership Accelerator for the 2030 Agenda, a collaborative initiative of UNDESA and TPI along […]
The unique opportunity for foundations to be strong active partners now, and in the future
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 […]
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 […]