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The Philanthropy Lab is a virtual campus and working hub for funders and philanthropists - a place to come together, learn together, and form different working groups to support economies that serve life. It’s open to all types and sizes of funding entities, from individual philanthropists to foundations.

The Lab process begins with what we call a Basecamp Training. This is a compact yet vibrant programme, taking in six virtual sessions across twelve weeks. Here we introduce principles about how the Lab works, share models and stories about alternative forms of funding, open space to explore how to support life-centred economic models, and set the seeds for a more collaborative way of working through the programme. 

The Basecamp Training is a way of joining a community of funders looking to work in different ways together while supporting life-centred work. Once the training is completed, we invite people to choose workstreams to join or to initiate. It is totally fine to do the Basecamp Training without committing to a workstream. 

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Why Join?

The Lab is a place that is helping rich learning, support, and real action. We see it helping funders in a number of ways:

  • Collaborative funding strategies that are ready to use for making long-term, systemic impact
  • Access to expertise and insight from world-leading practitioners, activists and thinkers
  • Deep relationships with a powerful community of collaborators, peers and allies
  • Experience of a structured, facilitated process that’s also creative, collaborative and uplifting
  • A chance to be genuinely innovative, with the help of peers and collaborators

Basecamp Training

New joiners are required to take the Lab’s Basecamp Training, which is a way of getting to understand how the Lab works and beginning to explore different levels of change and possible innovations.

The next Basecamp Training will start in late spring/early summer and will happen online in 6 x 2.5 hour sessions across 12 weeks, covering:

Session One:
Meeting and working in new ways, life-centred economies

Session Two:
Collaborative models of change and how to work systemically

Session Three:
New approaches to funding

Session Four:
Sense-making and exploring personal and organisation leadership

Session Five:
Working with story and narrative

Session Six:
Working with nature and sustaining impact as an ecosystem

During preparation for and throughout the training, we’ll work with funders to join workstreams and/or support new workstreams to emerge.

Want to know more?

We know you may have lots of questions about how the Lab works. Please get in touch with Andres at andres@bio-leadership.org or Florence at florence@greenfunders.org with any questions.

Being part of the Lab has expanded my understanding around funding practices and foundational issues that are the roots of our systemic challenges. It has connected me to a wider network of funders that also value nature and its voice, while guiding us beautifully through the journey of learning, conceptualizing and acting collaboratively.

Renata Minerbo Strengerowski, Be The Earth Foundation