Making a strategic shift towards early action
Making a strategic shift towards early action
Author: Gub Robertson
(June 2014)
The Early Action Funder’s Alliance comprises Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Comic Relief, Big Lottery Fund, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, UBS, Barrow Cadbury Foundation, Business in the Community, and the Royal Foundation. The Alliance’s aim is to demonstrate the public case for early action and to provide opportunities and guidance to funders to embed early action in their work.
This report is a literature review of early action schemes, both past and present across the UK and focuses on an analysis of schemes which have sought to affect a long-term shift in statutory funding from acute to preventative spend so that funding is shifted towards early action and away from crisis spending.