In a shift away from financing specific projects, some foundations are providing untied general-support funding to their grantees. Yet flexible funding, which supports the entire work of a grantee and not a specific line of work, remains uncommon.
The 2024 annual meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Network of Foundations Working for Development (netFWD) is convening a panel to discusses how foundations provide a combination of general support and earmarked funding to their grantees, to understand the trade-offs between flexibility and accountability in resource allocation.
This open discussion takes place on 4 March 2024, the first day of the annual OECD netFWD meeting in Paris.
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