Due Diligence Roundtable

Building on the experience of collaboration between funders during London Community Response, connecting to IVAR’s eight funder commitments for open and trusting grantmaking, and arising from ongoing discussions between funders about opportunities for increasing collaboration, we’re inviting you to join a roundtable to explore aligning approaches to due diligence in London.

Mapping what funders do, and considering how we might work to a common framework, would make the ask clearer to applicants, and simplify their task. Going a step further, a due diligence ‘passport’ (which could cover purely financial due diligence or wider due diligence activities) could reduce the work for applicants who apply to multiple funders, at the same time as reducing the work by each funder which is likely to duplicate most of what another funder has just done.  This has the potential to free up time and resources across civil society.