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Biggest Mistakes I Made As a Leader
I.G.’s CEO Emily shares some of the mistakes and challenges she found during her leadership journey, and what she learned and will share in I.G.’s new Leadership Lab.
From Imposter to Inspirer: Introducing I.G.’s Leadership Lab
I’m expected to show up as a leader, but don’t feel like a leader. Introducing Impact & Grow: A Leadership Lab.
Doing More with Less
Leveraging Limited Funds For Humanitarians: Insights from the 2024 #HX24 conference, organised by Save the Children UK and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy.
What MEL Means for Social Enterprise: A Chat with Bean Voyage
Social enterprises have a particularly interesting relationship with Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) as they need to capture both the financial and social/ environmental impact of their work, and speak to a wide range of potential funders and investors. Caitlin McLoughlin chatted to Abhinav Khanal, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Bean Voyage, to explore this further.
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What does I.G. Advisors actually do? - 2023 Edition
A round up of everything the I.G. team did in 2023!
From Funder to Resource Activist - Confessions of a Fellow Grantmaker
Introducing a new, dedicated funders stream to I.G.’s #FixTheFlow Fellowship! We’re accepting applications until 17th November (for a 2024 start). Join our movement at fixtheflow.org
Launching our Autumn Training Series
Join us for one (or all!) our eight workshops in our Autumn Training Series, where we will cover some of the trickiest topics facing fundraisers today.
It’s All About The ‘L’ Word: Designing an Effective Learning Journey
What does meaningful and effective learning actually mean in practice?
Interview With Kore Global’s Emily Boost: Learning How to Learn & Feminist MEL
Our Advisor Caitlin interviews Kore Global’s Emily Boost on learning how to learn and all things feminist evaluation and learning.
Permission to Fail: Reevaluating Our Relationships with ‘Failure’ as Fundraisers
How do we balance our passion and our desire to give our best, whilst not being consumed by failure to live up to our own or others’ expectations?
All Aboard ! Co-Designing Learning & Evaluation Journeys that Spark Joy
At I.G. Advisors (I.G.), we’re often approached to design and implement evaluations for our clients to understand the impact of their grantmaking, fundraising or programmatic strategies, and identify opportunities for evolution.
You can’t do philanthropy alone
The ‘lone saviour’ approach won’t cut it (and it also might destroy you).