Thirty Percy Foundation

Calling fellow funders! Join us for a transformative design sprint to challenge and disrupt the entrenched structures that have allowed systemic racism to persist. Recent events have shown how quickly energy can shift, and now is the time to apply that urgency to create lasting change. This event will focus on practical steps we can take to deepen our practice of responsive action and tackle the bigger structural challenges within our organisations. Let’s work together to make a real impact—starting with ourselves and the influence we can have. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the solution. Find our more: https://lnkd.in/extku9xP #PhilanthropyForChange #ActNow

This call to action is something all of the funding sector needs to take seriously. The structural and positional power we hold as funding organisations means it is imperative that we play our part in stamping out the root causes of the violence and injustice we’re seeing. Recognising the role funders play in perpetuating these dynamics, the work we need to do around whiteness as part of this, and the unique role we have to invest and resource the future we want to see. Grateful to Bonnie Chiu for the courage in opening this conversation, recognising the energy and labour it takes to do this. We have some ideas about what our contribution should be and will be reaching out to our fellow funders over the coming days.

At CIVIC SQUARE we are hiring for two important roles. Could these be right for you or someone you know? Joining us in 2024, and you will find a team taking a deep and focused approach to our neighbourhood system demonstrators, as we continue to step into and learn about the capabilities, relationships and postures required for this scale of ambition. As the #ExecutiveOrganisingAdministrator and you will join us as part of an agile operational, administrative and executive core function that supports our legal stewards, strategic mission and organisation to thrive, working closely with a senior leadership team to manifest a bold, ambitious vision together. This is an administrative and operational role as part of the CIVIC SQUARE core functions to support key legal stewards in their roles, the strategic mission and organisation to thrive. It seeks to consolidate what we have learnt well from other roles in the first five years of CIVIC SQUARE, and what is required now in this critical next phase of our collective work. APPLY: https://lnkd.in/eY7fHAUa As the new #FinancialSystemsLead, you will be ready to collaboratively steward, iterate and socialise regenerative, distributive-by-design financial systems, as part of the underlying conditions for an ambitious capital project where many kinds of value are generated and shared, you could be the Financial Systems Lead we're looking for. This is a role which supports all mission areas of CIVIC SQUARE, but notably forms part of the Executive Organising function of the organisation, as well as playing a key role in the health and pace of what is required to manifest the Neighbourhood Public Square demonstrator as we move into an incredibly bold, ambitious and meticulous phase along the journey. APPLY: https://lnkd.in/ebpd4P3r Both roles require communication, collaboration and deep care for a mission far bigger than CIVIC SQUARE, and our beautiful neighbourhood and the many we work alongside. We look forward to meeting you over the next few months, please do share far and wide across your network. #CIVICSQUARE #Hiring #Birmingham Dark Matter Labs, Alasdair McGill, Ashton McGill, Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), Indy Johar, Annette Dhami, Emily Harris, FCA

They’re called the Thirty Percy Foundation. And they’re turning philanthropy on its head. They’re developing a new model that funds people rather than projects to create expanding ripples of social and environmental change. And it was these ripples that inspired the new identity system we created, designed as a visualisation of their goal: Transforming philanthropy from the inside out. We developed a dynamic logo system to show that giving is not ‘one size fits all’ and builds on their quietly rebellious and unexpected approach within their sector. Big thanks to Louisa Mann , Diana Clarke, Louise Armstrong and Jon Mowll for embracing the branding process!

Reminder that the closing date for applications is 9am on Monday 29 July

Imagine if we activated communities on the ground… What if the #retrofit of our homes, communities, neighbourhoods, streets, were led by the community that lived there? The #RetrofitReimagined film takes us on a journey across the UK in Autumn 2023. During the second Retrofit Reimagined Festival, we explored the power of neighbourhood-led retrofit through the core theme of rebuilding our relationships with the land, the materials we consume, and our relationships with each other. We know retrofit should not only see the home, street, and neighbourhood as key strategic sites for decarbonisation, but also places of deep imagination for addressing the inequalities of wider, interlinked systems, of which our built environment sits at the heart. Particularly for those most vulnerable in our communities, it is vital that we embrace the wholesale reimagination of how we live together - from the scale of the neighbourhood to systems-level transformation. Join us as we share a film that shows that this future is already here. Neighbourhoods across the country are leading the way — whether it’s thinking about the foundations of the next economy or demonstrating them in the smallest most immediate ways in our streets. Retrofit Reimagined 2023 was hosted in partnership between: ACAN, Anthropocene Architecture School, Built Environment - Smarter Transformation, CIVIC SQUARE, Dark Matter Labs, Home Energy Action Lab, WeCanMake, Zero Carbon House Birmingham. With transformative support from Thirty Percy Foundation And many others 🙏 https://lnkd.in/eEr-xmwA

We are looking for a Changemaker Program Lead to work alongside the Changemaker Team to bring our two funds, Changemaker Trust Fund and The Honouring Fund, to life. In addition, you’ll be exploring the possibilities and creating a strategy to evolve the program beyond Thirty Percy. Interested? https://lnkd.in/etVJmzmp

Exciting news! Louise Armstrong and I have worked together for several years, and I feel *incredibly lucky* to have worked alongside her and for Thirty Percy Foundation to have her as its Transitional Executive Director. Louise will do an incredible job shaping Thirty Percy’s future contribution - alongside our team and board of wonderful humans. 

I’m excited and nervous (like all good things) to share that my Thirty Percy role continues to evolve. I’ve now stepped into the role of Transitionary Executive Director. Why transitionary? Thirty Percy Foundation Percy faces some big questions about its future role, and I'm committed to guiding us through these explorations. It won't be perfect; we'll make mistakes, but we're dedicated to learning along the way. Special shoutout to Jen Hooke for her bold ambition and tenacity, making Thirty Percy the incredible platform it is today. A place to stretch and push the edges of how funding can be done differently. My aspirations are for us to continue this journey and be sharing more widely some of what we’re doing and all the rich insights from that. Of course - leadership isn’t a solo act; it’s a collective effort. Our brilliant team and expanding network of collaborators and all those we work closely alongside make it all possible. And it continues to expand - we’ve also got two new roles coming soon. Changemaker Program Lead and a Learning Curator for our Spiral work, so watch this space… 🐚✨

For this current sprint, designing a fund to support Elder Changemakers, we wanted to invite our current changemakers to either participate in the co-design week and/or the sprint itself. Rupert Walters stepped up to join both. Here are his first reflections on his experience so far: https://lnkd.in/dW5ehBy9