Our approach
Overview
2018 - 2023: Enquiries and “good practice” grantmaking
Thirty Percy was in start-up mode, designing and responding to the emerging needs of our partners and those we met through our enquiries. This saw us spread ourselves across a wide array of areas, supporting individual change makers, catalysing, convening, participating in funder collaborations and developing our Spiral Investing approach. Always looking to centre care and relationships in our work.
2023 - 2030: Modelling a new governance of money
Honing and refining our focus and role by developing best practice methodologies in two key areas. Through redistribution of money and supporting individual changemakers and by supporting wealth holders to explore how they invest and organise their wealth differently. In each case designing for the technical, practical and the emotional support required.
2030 and beyond: Close / evolve / tbc
We don’t yet know if Thirty Percy has a role or resource beyond 2030. We hope there'll be a thriving ecosystem of support for individual changemakers and also new infrastructure to support a transformed governance of money, which means we’re no longer needed. However, we know this is long term work and change takes time. Beyond this timeline, we anticipate there could be a slimmed down role for a charitable foundation like Thirty Percy, acting more as an intermediary and fiscal host absorbing risk. We’ll be tracking the signals and needs during the current phase.
Current work
Change Makers
We provide direct and unrestricted investment to individuals, at different stages of their lifecycle, committed to creating alternative systems and visions, generating new knowledge and cultivating community. People who sit outside the mainstream and are bridging between sectors, spaces and disciplines. We have a focus on feminine leadership and explicit support of women, trans women, and women of colour.
Wealth Holders
For changemakers to flourish we need activated wealth holders who are transforming the way they govern and organise their money. We’re exploring how best to support wealth holders as part of the paradigm shift towards new economics and spiral investing approaches.
Thirty Percy the organisation
How we do things is as important as what we do. We use philanthropy as our jumping off point but are not restricted to this. We’re exploring what it means to organise and govern our resources and money differently. Our aspiration is to create an organisation that is designed with feminine lifecycles and leadership at its heart.