The Missing Middle: Investing in What Holds the System Together

We keep funding solutions. But the shared infrastructure that helps them connect, learn from one another, and grow together rarely gets funded. Building directly on a UNGA funder conversation, this session explores what becomes possible when philanthropy invests in that connective tissue, including how locally led solutions can reach greater scale without losing the local ownership that makes them effective.

How can philanthropy help locally led solutions reach scale without losing what makes them local?

Live interpretation will be available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic.