The grant funding system is broken, says the Institute for Voluntary Action Research, and reporting must change so that arts organisations no longer need to repackage the same information for each different funder.
‘Funder-led. Bureaucratic. Time-consuming. Misunderstood.’
These are words used to describe grant reporting by six UK funders and six organisations they fund, at a workshop run by IVAR and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation in April. As funders we each have our own finely crafted reporting system to learn from our grants. But our system is just one of many others the organisations we fund have to negotiate. No matte... Keep reading on IVAR
‘Funder-led. Bureaucratic. Time-consuming. Misunderstood.’
These are words used to describe grant reporting by six UK funders and six organisations they fund, at a workshop run by IVAR and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation in April. As funders we each have our own finely crafted reporting system to learn from our grants. But our system is just one of many others the organisations we fund have to negotiate. No matte... Keep reading on IVAR