Revolutionise how your organisation engages with the private sector.
As institutional funding for civil society tightens globally, organisations across the social impact sector are being driven to form closer private sector relationships – not as a nice-to-have, but as a core part of how impact is financed and delivered. This shift is changing not only in where money comes from, but how programmes are designed, governed, and held accountable.
Drawing on real-world experience, this session explores what that shift looks like in practice, examining innovative financing and delivery models that move beyond traditional donor-implementer approaches. We will focus on the hard and often uncomfortable realities of working across public, philanthropic, and private capital: where incentives don’t always align, where values and funding priorities can pull in different directions, and where organisations must make deliberate choices to protect impact and credibility.
The workshop will share practical learning you can apply across fundraising and resource mobilisation, inviting you to reflect on how we can reimagine how impact is financed, reclaim its role as a shaper of partnerships and markets, and rebuild approaches that are fit for a more constrained and complex funding environment.
Learning outcomes
- Understand how innovative financing and delivery models are reshaping resource mobilisation
- Explore the trade-offs that emerge when working more closely with the private sector, including where incentives conflict and where risk shifts
- Take away concrete insights on how to adapt systems, skills, and decision-making to support innovative finance and delivery models