Experimentation Fund Cohort 1 - Final Learnings Report
SILP is reimagining how we respond to global challenges through the lens of systemic innovation. We seek to create novel approaches that transcend conventional knowledge, building a vibrant community of innovators and pioneers committed to transformative impact.
In May 2023, SILP launched the Experimentation Fund, welcoming seven grantees with pioneering projects aimed at deepening their understanding of systemic challenges across diverse geographical, cultural, and socio‑economic contexts. Over the course of a year, these initiatives joined a learning cohort and a facilitated journey, questioned their assumptions around systems, convened with those supporting a system to move, tried & tested various approaches to activating a systemic response and allowed their learnings to inform their action, sometimes drastically changing the direction.
Through the Experimentation Fund, SILP challenged traditional funding paradigms — from microgrants designed to empower prospective applicants, to the creation of a ‘learning portfolio’ that prioritises collective knowledge generation, and the involvement of Community Grantmakers in leading fund distribution. Central to this approach was an interest in how shifting power dynamics within funding processes can catalyse deeper and more sustainable systems change.
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The final learnings, reflections, and emerging insights from Cohort 1 of the Experimentation Fund have been synthesised in the culminating Learning Report. |
