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WHY?
Giving money is one of the few significant activities that people do alone. We work
together, eat together, dance together, yet mostly give alone. It
is also an activity that we often feel is both important and confusing:
important because we understand the need, confusing because we don’t
know where to start, what to support among the plethora of appeals.
We wonder what criteria we should use to say yes or no, what kind
of giving makes the biggest difference. Our giving is often reactive,
seldom strategic. Rarely are we in direct touch with the organisations
we support, and even more rarely are we in touch with others asking
the same questions, perhaps giving to the same causes.
The Funding Network brings people together to:
act as a ‘marketplace’ to which individuals can bring projects
which work towards a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable world.
provide a mutually respectful setting where those who might like to
join with others in funding such projects get to meet and hear those
doing the work.
promote a paradigm of social change giving: that those who have much
can usefully share their wealth in creative and proactive ways, and
that the process of giving can be enriching to the giver as well as
to the receiver.
Those who attend talk about the privilege of actually meeting inspiring,
dedicated people working for social change, about the warmth and friendliness
of the atmosphere, about their amazement at what relatively small
amounts of money can help achieve - and about their pleasure in helping
to contribute that money.
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DIRECTOR
I
developed the habit of tithing... |
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PROJECT
A refreshing & personalised change...
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MEMBER
I come because TFN is gripping, like good theatre... |
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