Welcome to Purposely Short, a weekly episode, featuring one of our friends or past guests and their expertise on a certain topic.
This weeks episode features Rupert Abbott Executive Director of GiveOut a community foundation supporting LGBTQI communities.
How? They pool donations from donors to provide grants to LGBTQI organisations around the world, ensuring that they have more of the resources they need to defend communities, tackle inequalities and campaign for lasting change.
Rupert shares their approach and the practical steps they take to deliver their mission. Episode Highlights Funding the right causes and organisations - their approach to due diligence and how they choose the causes they fund. Building the fund - how they have had success attracting support + donors to build and maintain the fund.
A qualified lawyer Rupert has over 15 years’ international human rights and social impact experience. Rupert is also a trustee of the Association of Charitable Foundations UK.