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Allocate funds fairly. Build a diverse and resilient portfolio. Create a more just future.
4 MONTHS OF SUPPORT· COHORT-BASED COURSE
An inclusive, community-focused learning experience for impact-driven funders looking to equitably allocate funds, diversify their pipeline, measure impact, embed ethical practices and communicate with transparency.
The funding landscape can feel complex
Whether you’re navigating existing systems or building new ones from scratch, it can be challenging to know where to start.
Add impact, diversity, equity, and inclusion metrics into the mix and it only gets more daunting.
But we also know what finance can unlock – opportunity, innovation and growth.
So, we’re on a mission to help you fund fearlessly.
Enter the Fearless Funding School.
What you’ll get from the Fearless Funding School
Tools, knowledge and confidence
Gain the tools and knowledge to allocate funds fairly and engage with your audience.
Boost your confidence so you can fearlessly fund impactful organisations.
Implementable funding strategy
We help you build a funding strategy from scratch, purposely designed to help you diversify your pipeline, measure impact, embed ethical practices and communicate with transparency.
Lots of time saved
We know your time is precious.
The course is designed to give you the time and space back to build and implement an impactful funding strategy that could have taken years to put in place.
Action and accountability
Build and implement your own equitable funding allocation and engagement strategy.
Join a community of funders to help you stay accountable.
Learn and implement a fearless funding strategy
Phase 1
Learn
The first 8-week sprint serves as the core learning phase of the programme for a cohort of 10-15 funders
Phase 2
Implement
Over the next 8-weeks, participants apply the knowledge and skills gained during phase 1 to real-world projects or challenges within their organisation.
Meet your facilitators
Emily Horton
Founder of More Diverse Voices
Over the past 9 years, Emily has helped charities, think tanks, policymakers, investors and fast-growth tech companies find their voice. She has helped build communication strategies, thought leadership pieces, reports, press releases, social media campaigns and pitched stories to the press.
During her time as a financial journalist at Dow Jones she focused her reporting efforts on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.
She profiled female financial leaders, wrote articles about Pride in the City of London, mental health and stress in the workplace, sexual harassment cases and the lack of Black asset managers.
In 2023, she was recognised as one of Pioneers Post x NatWest’s Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise.
As a neurologically diverse and queer writer, Emily passionately advocates for justice and inclusion.
Jaskiran Mangat
Founder of Finance Therapy
Jaskiran is a financial resilience and wellbeing expert and founder of Finance Therapy, tackling money and mental health.
She brings over 15 years of experience as an; educator, financial risk manager, innovator and founder in banking and fintech, investor community builder and Trauma Of Money facilitator.
During her time building a global community of 550+ VC funds and LPs at VentureESG, she developed events, research and toolkits for investors to implement best practice ESG, including DEI, at the fund and portfolio level.
She’s also developed an award scheme in partnership with DeepMind, the Royal Academy of Engineering and Ada Ventures, for underrepresented founders in science, tech and engineering, working on innovations for the betterment of humanity.
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So, why do we care?
We want to transform the funding landscape so that it’s fairer for founders, more effective for funders and better for society.
Founders
We want to help historically under-resourced founders and social justice organisations access funds, by reducing the barrier to entry.
Funders
We want to help funders remove bias from their funding process and build resilient and diversified portfolios.
Society
We want to help build solutions to some of society’s toughest problems, built by those with lived and learnt experience.