HNC | Partner
Increase your leverage well beyond the dollars.
Our PARTNER program is for foundations, family offices, and others who are funding community-focused work across the social sector. Philanthropic organizations are the most critical lever we have to drive social change on a broad scale—not just by providing dollars that fuel the sector, but in shaping how the sector learns, collaborates, and evolves. So we’ve created an extremely low-lift partnership model to help philanthropic partners grow their leverage around the impact they care about most.
Figuring out how to help grantees do their work differently is what will ultimately lead to a different kind of impact.
— Family Foundation CEO, 7-Year Ecosystem Partner
We’re here to help you increase your impact.
Our approach to partnership starts with understanding and aligning on your priorities and passions, so we can help you define meaningful goals and more effectively support the grantees, geographies and areas of impact you care about most.
Focused
We’ll make sure we start with a deep understanding of the communities, impact, and outcomes that matter most to you.
Efficient
We’ll collaborate using low-lift processes and systems that drive high-impact collaboration without cluttering up your calendar with unnecessary meetings.
Easy
Our PARTNER programming is built around an informal approach to collaboration that enables us to focus on tangible impact without making things complicated.
Common Priorities…
⏵ Supporting Grantee Growth & Efficacy
⏵ Growing Your Foundation’s Capabilities
⏵ Sourcing High-Impact Grantees
⏵ Facilitating Grantee Collaboration
⏵ Geography or Sector-Specific Impact
42
Partner Foundations brought on since 2020.
60+
Funder-Initiated grantee introductions every year.
100%
of introductions Funded at or Above the asking amount.
How does it work?
We’ll work to establish the collaborative structure that works best for you, but in general we’ll focus on high impact, interesting, substantive conversations that will make an impact for the organizations you want to support.
1
Alignment
(1-2 Meetings)
We’ll start with an in-depth alignment process to build a deep understanding of the communities, impact, and outcomes that matter most to you.
2
Low-Lift Check-ins
(Recurring Meetings)
We‘ll facilitate regular check-ins at a frequency of your choice—all you need to do is show up—to ensure we‘re tracking toward the goals we identified.
3
Impact Tracking
(Ongoing)
You'll have ongoing access to our internal data dashboards and data about the impact of your partnerships.
Interested in exploring what HNC | Partner can do for you?
Not sure? We’d love to talk anyway. We can often help find the right resources for you, even if it’s not with us!