Spiritually Fulfilling Education

Innovation Funders Network (IFN) seeks to strengthen nonprofits and improve the people’s lives worldwide through the innovative use of information and communication technology. We bring together those working with technology to advance social change.



IFN’s role.:



Our mission is to advance grantmaking across sectors to increase knowledge, advocate best practices and fund projects that use information and communication technology to strengthen nonprofits and improve the lives of communities and people worldwide.



Our principles:



- Strategic use of information and communication technology (ICT) can give organizations a powerful resource to enhance their community improvement efforts.

- Grantmakers are uniquely positioned as community leaders with financial resources to help nonprofit organizations and others take advantage of these tools to advance their mission.

- Technology-related grantmaking requires new funding approaches that address the extended time it takes to deploy technology projects, the total cost of technology, the need for strategic technology plans and development of technology support providers to serve nonprofits.

- Grantmakers should emphasize capacity-building through improvement of administrative and programmatic activities and recognize that information and communications technology has profound impacts on organizational culture.

- Facilitating change and leveraging technology-related funding for wider impact requires that grantmakers work collaboratively with foundations, nonprofits, companies, governments and others both domestically and internationally.