Final evaluation report – community philanthropy as a strategy for strengthening civil society’s response to COVID-19
The European Union (EU) funded programme “Community philanthropy as a strategy for strengthening civil society’s response to COVID-19” was the EU’s first investment in community philanthropy as a specific and alternative development approach. The programme intended to explore new approaches that could accelerate localization or locally-led development. The COVID-19 pandemic provided impetus to the localization agenda by highlighting the importance of context-specific knowledge and credible, trusted local organizations in rapid emergency responses.
This final evaluation was commissioned to help the EU understand what was achieved by funding community philanthropy organizations, and how government or institutional funding can best support community philanthropy. It was also intended to help the GFCF to deepen and improve its work, and communicate the outcomes in ways that are meaningful to the field, to funders and to others not immediately involved in community philanthropy.
Author: Karen Kotschy
Published by: GFCF
Published: February 2023