One World Together’s funding innovation featured in IIED blog!

We are delighted to be featured in the International Institute for Environment and Development’s (IIED) blog this week. IIED is an independent research organisation delivering positive change on a global scale. They have worked closely with urban social movements around the world for decades and understand the limitations of traditional funding systems when it comes to enabling organised communities to envision, plan, and control their own development. Even where funding reaches them it doesn’t align well with their priorities, timetables and ways of working.

With many of it’s audience having worked and walked alongside social movements (like two of our partners Community Savers CLASS and Shack Dwellers International Kenya (SDI Kenya)) we know that our movement towards long-term, predictable and unrestricted funding for social movements and community organisations will resonate with them. In this blog our Chief Steward asks, in a context where little of global development funding raised actually reaches social movements and community-based organisations, do we ourselves hold the power to get more and better funds directly to the communities fighting poverty and injustice around the world?

Those of you that have been following us for a while know that’s exactly what we’re here to do, building a people-powered wave of change that believes in a new form of community-centred development. Our Global Citizens support the movement through an affordable annual membership fee (from as little as £5/year) and sign up to a regular monthly contribution from as little as £1.25 to our Solidarity Fund. We pool these funds and send them quarterly to our four partners with absolutely no strings attached. 

Our Solidarity Fund is currently £360.00 a month – and growing – and we’re excited to soon launch our first annual report demonstrating what how that is helping our four brilliant partners in the work that they do. Our Global Citizens can learn more down on our online community space, where they can connect with our partners directly and learn more about the power of their support.

Read our feature blog to learn more.