What is the Learning Hub?
The Learning Hub is an innovative approach and model that substitutes traditional MEL and reporting with a grantee-led learning process, which is collaborative and equitable.
It is guided by efforts to democratise philanthropy, challenge power dynamics between investors and grantee partners, and provide safe spaces for shared learning.
The Learning Hub is grounded in the belief that social change requires:
real-time feedback loops
learning and sharing among all stakeholders
new network connections
In practice, this is translated into participatory grantmaking processes, learning calls, sharing events, data mining for the creation of knowledge products, and knowledge management processes.
Our Values
Brave Safe Spaces
The Learning Hub fosters spaces where participants feel safe to share in openness and where we are continuously reflective of the power we each hold.
Participatory and Learning Focused
Decision-making power is deferred to the key stakeholders who best represent those impacted by these decisions.
The Spaces We Hold: Where learning, reflection, and collaboration come to life.
The Learning Hub nurtures spaces for exchange, reflection, and collective action among grantee partners, investors, and allies. These spaces strengthen the fabric of our learning community, where practice meets shared purpose, and where knowledge is co-created rather than extracted.
The Learning Hub’s spaces are designed to connect people across roles, regions, and perspectives. Whether it is through intimate reflection circles, peer-led exchanges, or cross-sector dialogues, these moments of connection ensure that learning remains collective, dynamic, and grounded in the realities of those most affected.
The Hub currently holds five main spaces for collaboration and learning:
Climate Circles
Grounding resilience in lived experience
Climate Circles bring together grantee partners and activists to reflect on the lived realities of climate change and co-create ground-up resilience strategies. Using participatory tools such as the Resilience Tree, participants map their strengths, challenges, and aspirations. The Circles centre community voices to ensure climate action remains just, inclusive, and led by those most affected.
Feminist Bazaars
Exchanging skills, ideas, and solidarity
Feminist Bazaars are vibrant exchange spaces where grantee partners share what they offer and what they seek, from technical tools to feminist organising strategies. Every participant is both a learner and a teacher, creating horizontal networks of care and collaboration. The Bazaar strengthens solidarity and practical peer support across regions and movements.
Non-Extractive
Recognising the time and effort involved in MEL activities, we work to ensure that approaches are collaborative and beneficial for all those involved.
Learning Hub Calls
Where shared learning becomes collective action
Quarterly Learning Hub Calls gather all Fund stakeholders to share updates, insights, and lessons learned. These calls are spaces for reflection, peer learning, and connection, where grantee partners and investors explore emerging issues together. The outcomes inform shared learning products and strengthen decisions across the Fund.
Flexible and Transparent
The Learning Hub responds and adapts to the unique contexts and needs of the Fund partners and actively encourages open discussion.
Advisory Board Meetings
Guided by shared governance and feminist accountability
The Advisory Board Meetings unite corporate investors and women’s funds in collective governance. These sessions prioritise transparency and shared decision-making, ensuring no single actor holds control. They serve as spaces for reflection, strategy alignment, and accountability rooted in feminist values.
Theme-Specific Accompaniment
Deep dives for collective insight and tailored support
Theme-specific accompaniment sessions support the organisational strengthening of grantee partners. In smaller, focused groups, participants troubleshoot challenges, share approaches, and co-design new solutions. These sessions generate targeted outputs, tools and playbooks that enrich the partners’ resilience.