# Funders have key role to play in collaborative working

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/03/30/funders-have-key-role-play-collaborative-working/
- Published: 2005-03-30T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Funders are in a key position to help promote awareness of the potential of collaborative
working and to assist good practice, according to the National Council for Voluntary
Organisations’ (NCVO) Collaborative Working Unit (CWU).
The CWU recently conducted
baseline research into funders’ knowledge, understanding and awareness of collaborative
working.

Those surveyed included charitable trusts and foundations, and government and local
funders. About one third demonstrated wide general awareness of collaborative working
and its possible functions, and many were already funding joint working in some 
capacity.

Encouragingly, the research reveals that 75% of funders recognised that they have
an important role to play in collaborative working; and 65% said that they would
fund collaborative working in the future.

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