Podcast: How the Joffe Trust makes grants

Our Director, Alex Jacobs, recorded this podcast with Inside Grantmaking about the Joffe Trust’s work.

Listen in to find out more about how we work. Link below includes the podcast and transcript.

What you’ll learn:

• How our two-stage enquiry and application process works in practice, and why success rates differ sharply between the two stages.

• Why the question “who do you want to do what?” is more revealing than a list of problems, and what it forces an applicant to clarify.

• How staff assess applications before they go to the board, and why the board’s independence matters even when it disagrees with staff recommendations.

• Why the Trust commits to substantial feedback on every grant report within a month, and how that shapes trust between funder and grantee.

• How a specialist funder uses convening to build relationships across civil society, government, and the private sector.