Our work
QCF supports people and organisations working across the intersecting challenges of human security, poverty and inequality and climate risk.
A just and resilient world, where those most affected by intersecting crises have the power to shape their own futures.
To trust and resource those closest to the work, to secure today, and transform tomorrow.
Our change theory
The challenges we work on are interconnected and shaped by wider systems.
Our change theory sets out how we understand these dynamics and where our work can contribute to lasting change.
Our approach
We work by trusting and resourcing those closest to the work, supporting efforts that secure dignity today while helping build the conditions for long-term system change. Our approach is shaped by how change happens in complex systems, and by what we learn from our partners and the wider field.
How change happens
System change rarely comes from a single intervention. We focus on four pathways that unlock systems change.
How we support this
We resource these pathways through grant funding, impact-first investments, and field engagement, working in partnership to strengthen the conditions for lasting change.
Changemakers
Organisers, innovators, and leaders reimagining systems, challenging existing models and building alternatives that create ripple effects beyond their immediate work.
Movements and coalitions
Social movements, civil society, public, business and industry alliances, and cross-sector coalitions that build power, generate ideas and challenge entrenched structures and norms.
Narratives
The stories, ideas and cultural forces that shape public understanding, social norms and political possibility by expanding what is seen as legitimate, urgent and achievable.
Knowledge and innovation
New research, ideas and approaches that expand what is technically, socially and politically possible, opening pathways to more resilient societies.
Explore our grants driving global impact
