Commissioned by London Funders, and written by IVAR (Institute for Voluntary Action Research), 'The Possible, not the Perfect' looked at key features and aspects of a range of funders’ grant-making responses to the Grenfell Tower fire, the London Bridge and Borough Market attacks and the Manchester Arena bomb. It found that across a number of the collaborative funds set up in response to the emergencies, funders stepped outside their normal practices in a range of different ways.For the sixth piece in our Reports Reloaded series, Ben Cairns, Director of IVAR reflects on the lessons in the original report and how it provided a guide to funders' response to the pandemic.
