Express your interest in the 2027 Funders MEL LabAccountability without flattening your impact
A 6-month co-creation lab starting in February 2027.
For funders moving toward trust-based, long-term relationships who still need to prove credible impact. These don't have to be at odds: evaluation can deepen trust and translate complexity into influence.
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Power-sharing and accountability are not opposites
More and more funders are committed to trust-based, long-term relationships. Yet they still face real pressure to demonstrate credible evidence of impact.
Too often the choice looks binary: no evaluation at all, or linear metrics that flatten the systemic, relational work your partners are actually doing.
There is a third path. Evaluation can be an ally that strengthens trust, deepens learning, and holds power to account without stripping away nuance.
The Three Traps Facing Progressive Funders
Recognising the traps is the first step to moving beyond them.
Falling Back on Linear Paradigms
Defaulting to conventional tracking metrics, forcing complex, relationship-driven work into fixed frameworks simply to meet reporting and board requirements.
Friction in Translation
Nurturing participatory, qualitative learning on the ground, but lacking the translation mechanics to communicate dynamic data to leadership, boards, and the public.
Avoiding Measurement Altogether
Abandoning formal evaluation entirely under the banner of trust-based funding, creating strategic blindness for both funders and changemakers.
The Funders MEL Lab rests on two pillars
A practice built to honour complexity and translate it into influence.
Honour the complexity
Capture rich, qualitative learning from partners without flattening it. Systemic, relational work stays intact and legible.
Translate into influence
Aggregate learning into credible narratives that move boards, leadership, and the wider field toward systemic change.
What We Will Build Together
Co-created outcomes that stay yours to keep and to share.
A shared framework
An evaluation approach tailored to your mission, values, and the systemic work you fund.
Credible narratives
The ability to translate rich learning into evidence your board and the field will trust.
Lasting capability
Confidence and tools to keep practising trust-based evaluation long after we finish.
How it Works & What Your Organisation Receives
Four connected components, delivered as one coherent journey.
- 1
Capacity building
3 seats in The Regenerative Signal, our five-session training in complexity-aware, Regenerative Evaluation.
- 2
Co-creative lab
Together we build an evaluation framework that honours complexity and satisfies accountability needs.
- 3
Bespoke coaching
3-4 coaching sessions with a senior evaluator to assess your current reporting and adapt frameworks to your portfolio and governance.
- 4
Field leadership
Co-authorship, institutional feature, and logo placement in the public sector report The Future of Funder MEL, set to be published in September 2027.
One clear investment
Priced as a commitment to your practice and to the field.
Evaluation as an Ally
A sliding-scale engagement for progressive funders, priced to match your capacity.
€8,000 to €12,000
- Participation for up to 3 team members
- Bespoke evaluation framework co-designed with your team
- Full suite of open-source tools and templates
- Facilitated peer learning across the cohort
- Access to a global community of practice
- Support translating learning into credible narratives
Not sure if it is the right fit? Fill in the form below and we will explore alignment together.
Read the full Funders MEL Lab overview
Want the complete picture? Our detailed overview walks through the thinking behind the lab, the two pillars in practice, and exactly what your organisation will build over the six months together.
The Funders MEL Lab, in full
A short read that covers the approach, the outcomes, and the invitation.
Ready when you are
When you are ready, scroll back up to the form at the top of the page and share your details. Once we understand where you are, we will reach out to arrange a follow-up conversation and explore whether this is the right fit. No pressure, just a first step.