Practitioner-led funding. Organisations recommended by people who know the work, do the work, and are funding the work.
This is the offer the Firetree Fund makes: not a directory, but curated access to organisations tested through real partnership and assessed by people who are practitioners and funders themselves.
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Who runs the Fund
The Firetree Fund was conceptualised and is governed by Francesco Caruso. The portfolio is managed by Sreya Bhattacharya, and advised by a regional panel of technical experts chaired by Nicky Wilkinson. The panel brings decades of direct experience across child protection, education and nonprofit leadership in Southeast Asia.
We operate, not just fund
Each organisation in this portfolio has been selected by members of the Firetree team who have created, run and backed organisations themselves
We've been in the room
We have lived through the day-to-day challenges of the transitions. With Board experience across 20+ organisations, we know what great governance and decision-making under pressure is really like.
We are in it for the long run
We know that trust, value, unrestricted funding, partnerships, give leaders the time and space to focus on the impact of the organisation.
We talk about who we fund
Every organisation in this portfolio is one we currently fund ourselves, and intend to continue funding. This is not a way to wind down but rather to double down.
