Here you’ll find a range of resources to help you start to rethink overhead costs. From the latest reports to self-assessment tools, there’s everything you need to get started.
Each tool has been tagged and can be sorted via the tags below.
A Fundraiser’s Guide To reframing overhead costs
A short guide to help you as a fundraiser understand where you are in your journey and the tools you can use to reframe overhead costs.
A Funder’s Guide To Impactful Partnerships
A short guide to help you as a funder understand the importance of overhead cost and how to create more impactful partnerships.
Pay What It Takes: Information
Information on the Pay What It Takes (PWIT) initiative, including key findings and messages.
Full Cost Calculation Guide
Helping non-for-profit organisations calculate the full cost of their work.
Case Study: The Social Outfit - fundraising, partnerships and systems change
In this interview, Amy Low, CEO of The Social Outfit, and Pay What It Takes Ambassador talks about how the organisation approaches the Pay What It Takes philosophy in fundraising, partnerships, and systems change. The conversation links Amy’s experience in fashion, sustainability and social enterprise to broader challenges in the not-for-profit sector relating to costs, fundraising and achieving impact.
Case Study: Minderoo Foundation and embedding the PWIT philosophy
Kristen Stevenson, Executive Director, Effective Philanthropy at Minderoo Foundation explains how Minderoo has embedded Pay What It Takes across its strategy, governance and grant-making, using trust-based partnerships and true-cost funding to support the delivery of outcomes.
Case Study: Understanding true costs via a Full Cost Calculator
Jen Riley and David Gilchrist share what brought them to PWIT and why sustainability (and myths about overheads) makes full costing urgent.
Case Study: Two funders who have rethought overhead costs
In this case study the Goninan Family Foundation and the Macquarie Group Foundation open up about what reshaped their organisations’ funding philosophy around funding for-purpose organisations’ overhead costs.
Case Study: William Buckland Foundation
In this case study, Jenny McGregor (Chair) and Ferdi Hepworth (Foundation Lead), explore the evolution, challenges and practical strategies of implementing PWIT, offering guidance for both funders and grantees.
UnCharitable: Presented by Social Impact Hub Foundation
UnCharitable offers a bold vision for a sector free to invest, innovate and grow.
A PWIT perspective on the Giving Funds reforms
Sean Barrett, a member of the PWIT Steering Committee and former CEO in philanthropy and for-purpose sectors, gives a PWIT perspective on the Giving Funds reforms proposed by Federal Government in this article.
Self-Assessment For Funders
Reflective tool for assessing PWIT organisational culture, structure, practices, and leadership in funding organisations.
Self-Assessment For For-Purpose Organisations
Reflective tool for assessing PWIT organisational culture, structure, practices, and leadership in for-purpose organisations.
Transparency & Open Dialogue Guidelines
Guidelines for fostering open, honest, and respectful communication between funders and for-purpose organisations, and developing transparent funding processes.
Values & Principles In-Action
Guidelines for integrating and reflecting on PWIT principles in organisational practices.
Pay What It Takes: Definitions
A list of terms and definitions related to PWIT to support understanding and the adoption of a common language.
Paying What It Takes Report
A detailed report, outlining the need for funding into indirect costs to create long-term impact.
Reframe Overhead: Research Report
A detailed research report with information on insights, research methodology and calls to action.
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