Strategic Partners

The Great Generation seeks strategic partners who can build organisational capacity to increase programme impact. Strategic partners may provide financial support and resources, or share their skills and expertise with The Great Generation’s staff and partner networks. If your organisation is interested in becoming a strategic partner of The Great Generation, we would be delighted to hear from you.

What benefits does a strategic partnership bring?

  • Strengthening core mission: through working together, more can be achieved and a joint mission can maximise community impact
  • Supporting innovation and expansion: The Great Generation takes an innovative approach to community development, and seeks to replicate in areas of need across the world
  • Providing insight and expertise: skills and experience lie at the heart of The Great Generations’ team, but strategic partners may have further insight across the range of issues that The Great Generation covers, adding capacity to existing expertise
  • Optimised profile: as Strategic Partners are key to ensuring the ongoing sustainability of The Great Generation, the partnership would be celebrated at every opportunity. The team is happy to discuss the various ways of offering profile to partner groups.
  • Tax efficient giving: donations of staff time and money to charitable causes qualify for different forms of tax relief. To find our more on tax efficient giving please visit: www.hmrc.gov.uk

Case Studies

The Salesforce.com Foundation are strategic partners of The Great Generation, using and adapting their data management systems to build the internal data management function, and to offer microfinance support to partners across the world.

V Charity are funding The Great Generation’s work with young people, putting volunteering at the forefront of skills development in the classroom, and community development across the world.

International Agenda are providing in kind support to The Great Generation in the form of consulting expertise, ensuring all Expert Partners receive a needs assessment and partnership structure which acts upon agreed organisational objectives. This provides an invaluable service which ensures that all Expert Partners have undergone strategic planning sessions, at no extra cost.

Strategic Partner recruitment 2009

The Great Generation seeks partners who can offer skills and experience, resources and funding. In particular, the Great Generation seeks partners with expert knowledge in the fields of:
  • Microfinance and financial inclusion
  • Enterprise and business development
  • Marketing and communications
  • The Great Generation also seeks core partnerships that could support core costs, including key management and delivery positions - in order to increase the amount of investment into The Great Generation’s community networks
If you are interested in becoming a strategic partner please contact us. To find out more about tax efficient giving please click here.

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