Field Building for Equitable Systems Change: Insights for Funders

March 21, 2023

Field Building for Equitable Systems Change: Insights for Funders

Funders can create the conditions for field catalysts to thrive. Leveraging the NCRP’s Power Moves framework, we have developed a core set of guidance for funders around how to build, wield, and share power to unleash the potential of field catalysts to lead the way to equitable outcomes at a population level.

Guidance for funders about field building chart; building, wielding, and sharing power

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Field Building for Population-Level Change

This report identifies four key principles for funders to embrace to create conditions for field builders that accelerate their impact.  

PDF: Field Diagnostic Tool: Assessing a Field's Progression

This tool can help you determine your field’s current state. It charts five observable characteristics that are the markers of progress across the three phases of development. 

How Philanthropy Can Support Systems-Change Leaders

Success in solving complex social problems frequently hinges on the work of organizations referred to as field catalysts, systems orchestrators, or coalitions. Yet philanthropy too often overlooks them. 

PDF: Due-Diligence Guide to Support Systems‑Change Leaders

An alternative due diligence approach tailored to work that is evolving and adaptive in nature. 

Funding Field Catalysts from Origins to Revolutionizing the World

Even with modest beginnings, systems-change organizations seek world-changing outcomes. We surveyed these social-change makers to learn what they can use most from funders.
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