We help grant makers and grant seeker maximise their philanthropic outcomes and impact.
Giving Connect helps donors – and their advisers – understand and articulate their philanthropic motivations and intentions and build a strategic framework to achieve meaningful and effective partnerships. Get connectedOur framework
Giving Connect utilises the Theory of Change methodology to help advisers and their client develop a logical, clear narrative about the change or impact they hope to achieve.
It is the basis of our Giving Strategy service, which supports philanthropists articulate the challenge they seek to address, the broad goal of their philanthropy, the actions they need to take to achieve meaningful outcomes.
The Challenge
The problem your foundation wants to help overcome
Results
The outcomes that are created from these activities
Activities
The actions that would contribute to the goal
The Broad Goal
The goal your foundation wants to achieve
The Challenge
The problem your foundation wants to help overcome
Activities
The actions that would contribute to the goal
Results
The outcomes that are created from these activities
The Broad Goal
The goal your foundation wants to achieve
Designed by philanthropists for philanthropists
Giving Connect was developed by The Australian Centre of Social Innovation and co-designed with philanthropists. By learning from their experience and frustrations in creating meaningful philanthropic partnerships and prototyping our framework, we have built Australia’s first philanthropic advice framework that is aligned to strategic wealth advice.
Each year we conduct an independent audit on our framework and tools to ensure we continue to respond to what works best for grant makers and grant seekers.
The steps of Giving Connect
Philanthropy is a personal journey. Our service is designed to support clients where they need us most: some clients ask us for help on one step, others seek us to support them on the whole journey. Regardless of your needs, we work with you to achieve:
Meaningful Partnerships
Philanthropic partnerships founded on transparency and trust.
Intentional Action
Clarity and purpose driving grant-making decisions.
Greater Social Impact
Heightened awareness and effective deployment of philanthropic resources, time and expertise.
Giving Impact Map
We’ve developed a 15 minute online questionnaire that helps philanthropists identify their values, approach, risk appetite and focus of their giving via our Giving Impact Map.
Giving Strategy Workshop
A 2 and 1/2 hour facilitated planning session that works with grant makers, their families and advisers to develop the first version of their Giving Strategy.
Iterations of your Strategy
We take the outcomes from the Giving Strategy workshop and craft a draft Giving Strategy. This is circulated with workshop participants for final feedback and amendments.
Final Giving Strategy
We can also help you build a website to communicate your Granting Strategy and grant making process to prospective grant seekers.
Grant making services
We can support grant makers identify and assess suitable not for profit partners and evaluate outcomes.
Secretarial Services
We can support trustees and advisory boards meet their fiduciary obligations by preparing board papers, capturing minutes and liaising with accountants/auditors as required.
Get started
When you take part in Giving Connect, the first step is for those involved in your giving to think about the impact they would like to contribute to, and their motivations.
We’ve designed a series of questions which will help donors answer the big questions. It takes about 15 minutes to complete our online learning and answer questions that will spark some important conversations.
Request a quote for a Strategy Workshop
Once you’ve completed your Giving Impact Map, you may decide you want to do deeper dive into achieving impactful philanthropy. Over the past 5 years, we’ve supported lots of philanthropists develop a strategy that enables them to develop a clear, consistent and focused approach to their giving.
The cost to develop a Giving Strategy – a workshop/workshops with your giving team, a draft and final version of your funding strategy – commences at $3,500 (incl GST).
Giving Connect’s fees are considered a ‘reasonable expense’ in line with S.23 of the Private Ancillary Fund Guidelines (2021) and S.43 of Public Ancillary Fund Guidelines, 2021 and can be paid by your foundation or sub fund.
Who we are
Our clients, partners & friends
Here’s what some of our clients have to say
The workshop was facilitated incredibly well and enabled all the members of our family an equal voice. As a consequence we developed and implemented a giving strategy that enables us to be more focussed and effective in our giving.
Giving Connect guided my clients through the next stage of their philanthropic journey and enabled them to articulate ‘the why’ and ‘the how’. Now they feel they are well equipped to implement their Giving Strategy and identify not-for-profit partners aligned with their giving goals.
“Giving Connect provides the ideal platform for engaging with funders. It is the ‘Gold Standard’ in identifying funders whose values and approach is aligned with our organisation and programs. From the outset it ensures both parties work from a basis of transparency and trust.”
Let’s connect
If you would like to find out more or participate in Giving Connect please contact: