Coronavirus funding and funders’ actions

How should funders respond as COVID-19 begins to take its toll on those organisations and projects that they support? Here is UK Fundraising's summary of resources, reactions, ideas and responses by funders. We also list some new or amended funds established to help tackle the novel coronavirus and its impacts.   Discussion on #Covid19Foundations Funders are discussing and sharing issues related to their work and the coronavirus using the #Covid19Foundations hashtag. These include: https://twitter.com/MaxRutherford_/status/1239579148894511104   What are funders doing? Many funders are sharing details of new or different approaches to their grantees. https://twitter.com/claire_ainsley/status/1239599544637296642 Funders in many countries are announcing that they are extending grants, or relaxing reporting requirements or making other adjustments to help those they support. https://twitter.com/ECFInews/status/1238405193726910471   https://twitter.com/ThirdSectorLab/status/1239839906060533760   Many are simply reassuring grant recipients: https://twitter.com/vsellick/status/1238511794802622471   Collaboration There is plenty of collaboration and partnership underway amongst funders, often based on long-established networking and collaboration systems and meetings. https://twitter.com/LondonFunders/status/1239551698659655680   https://twitter.com/ukfundraising/status/1239811846493757440   https://twitter.com/Liz_HaemoSoc/status/1238424756740927488   Grants related to coronavirus Funds have already been established to help those affected by COVID-19. These include: Northern Ireland Community Foundation opens coronavirus fund for older people (16 March 2020) WHO sets up COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund (16 March 2020)  

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