Supporting corporate giving

With our extensive sector knowledge and experience managing charitable funds, you’re in safe hands.

We can proactively manage your relationship with the communities and causes you support, ensuring the right fit between your organisation and the causes you value, or the places where you want to make a difference.

Getting your people involved

Employees often embrace wholeheartedly their company’s charitable initiatives. We can help with ideas around staff engagement, including employee input into grant decisions or project visits.

Grant making and fund distribution

As Scotland’s community foundation, we are experts in designing and delivering funds. We can connect you with thousands of local organisations right across Scotland. From community projects through to local groups, they’re all looking for funds they can use to make a difference. There are a number of different ways we can distribute your funds, including grantmaking, education & training bursaries and social investment. Some funds might support specific causes, others might target a local area. How each fund is designed and delivered is bespoke to meet your aims. The most common purposes of funding are as follows:

• Funding a local community: Funding that focuses on a specific locality in Scotland. Fund distribution is anchored in community-led decision making. Read more about this here.
• Funding a cause: These funds can help tackle specific issues or themes, for example, health, education, equality or employment. They can be targeted locally, regionally or nationally. Find out more here

Our range of services

Once we’ve worked with you to agree the best way to distribute your funding, we can:

• Promote your fund: We’ll promote your fund to attract the most suitable community organisations and charities.
• Handle enquires: Once charities and community groups are aware of your fund, we handle all the enquiries and correspondence on your behalf.
• Review and assess applications: If you’re running a grant-making programme, we’ll collate and assess applications, ensuring applicants are eligible and present you and/or a fund advisory panel with assessment reports including recommendations on which fit with your fund and are well-planned.
• Support decision making: If you wish, we can also establish and support advisory panels drawn from the community or cause you wish to support and/or employee or donor representatives.
• Grant management and reporting: We’ll manage all grant payments and keep you updated on the progress of funded projects. We can also facilitate project visits should you or your team wish.