Whether funding poverty or climate solutions, or supporting communities in Baltimore or Bahrain, individual well-being could generate broader social outcomes, because healthy people create healthy things. For funders, this means supporting grantees’ well-being—not to become the favorite funder, but to help social impact organizations survive crises, and then ensure that they have the resilience, as well as the capacity to innovate and collaborate, that they need to effectively navigate challenges to come.
Read the article, How Funders Can Support Individual Well-Being, to learn about the successful initiatives where funding was allocated to support well-being. Find out also the importance of grantees to voice their needs (e.g., healthcare, student debt, mortgages etc.), creating a space open for sharing personal struggles and issues, and building a comprehensive long-term program. Funding well-being gives social impact organizations permission to prioritize and do it. Organizations should use that privilege to encourage, support, and drive a new standard of well-being in our sector—one that, from here on out, recognizes, understands, and demonstrates the critical role well-being plays in social change.
