Our Flagship Initiatives
Designed with high impact local institutions, that the centre. Built on our five phase change model, grounded in research and lived experience.
We work at the intersection of inclusion, systems design, and market transformation, using a tested model to develop and scale inclusive market systems across global sectors.
Our core initiatives include:
Open Grants Access
Local NGOs, Social Businesses, Government Institutions: Democratizes access to funding, and builds local institutional capacity. We provide free grant and due diligence support, against preferred partner status in MEL, and/or research, communications, technical expertise. Designed to unlock funding access, and strengthen organization capacity. Available to an invite-only network of local institutions from the global south.
Donors, Impact Investors, Fund Managers, Intermediaries: Operationalizes donor localization strategies. Customized, full spectrum solution from pre funding till post implementation stage. A full spectrum solution that integrated potential applicant outreach and grant making advisory, grantee community of practice, and project sustainability services.
CSO Service Providers and Intermediaries: Amplifies solutions that build credibility of local institutions, through solutions that range from NGO due diligence to Fundraising Accelerator Programs.
Enables high impact local institutions (NGOs, Social Businesses, Government Institutions) attract funding support, to sustain and scale their impatful community work.
Who It Is for:
Overseas Representation
National NGOs
Membership Organizations, Associations
Social Businesses, High Impact Products Companies
Support mission-driven organizations from the global south to establish strategic, low-overhead presence in the UK and EU. We offer networking and market penetration support, local hiring and payroll services.
Who It Is for:
Large Scale Development Solutions
We partner with other social impact intermediaries, consulting firms and iNGOs to bid for, and deploy large scale development and humanitarian interventions. Our services range from project design, research, deployment, monitoring and direct interventions; with a focus on local institutions strengthening. We work globally, through our network of expert consultants and implementing partners.
Interventions across all the sustainable development goals. Understand our primary focus areas outlined as our Thematic Priorities.
Who It Is for:
Creative Impact Lab
Our in-house design and storytelling studio, that shifts mindsets and amplifies community voices. We bring our creative design, copywriting, evidence based storytelling and content dissemination capabilities to develop human-centred campaigns, visual strategy and digital content.
We work with organizations that are shifting behaviours in their target communities, or seeking global visibility of their community impact.
We craft compelling narratives, visuals, campaigns, communication strategies to amplify voices, shift mindsets and behavior.
Who It Is for:
Local Governance Strengthening
Suitable for:
Local Authorities: We help municipal councils and regional governments build their capacity to engage citizens in participatory budgeting processes, ensuring community needs directly shape infrastructure investments and service delivery priorities.
Public sector support services: Better enable agencies like planning departments, health services, and education offices to develop more responsive and coordinated approaches to service delivery by strengthening inter-agency collaboration and citizen feedback mechanisms.
Co-design and implement high-impact programs that catalyze localized, inclusive and sustainable development.
Who It Is for:
“Despite 25 years of work, we struggled to tell our story to our audience. With Footbridge, our work has become more systemic and locally-led; and our donor interactions more confident and impactful”
NGO Founder from South Asia
