Zoe Abrahamson is Bond’s Sector Transformation Manager. She leads Bond’s work transforming the UK international development sector. This challenges the sector to reflect on how it operates, to decolonise development so that it is transformed to a more equitable and fair system, putting power into the hands of communities.
Her background is in funding, supporting organisations and funders to transform traditional funding models. She regularly speaks with funders, advising them on how they can best support civil society by designing equitable funding mechanisms and building positive relationships with the communities that they serve.
Since joining Bond she piloted Bond’s responsible fundraising series, taking participants on a journey to change how they fundraise. She was part of the team developing a Guide to support NGOs to Becoming locally led as an anti-racist practice and stories of what a good locally led funder looks like. She sat on the advisory board for the Nesta research into third sector and start up collaborations. Most recently she has developed case studies on how generating an income can help an INGO become more locally led and helped set up the Bond Advisory group who are feeding into Bond’s locally led work and holding them to account.
Before joining Bond, Zoe worked in programme development at Plan International UK, as a Programme Manager at Target TB, in business development at Itad a monitoring and evaluation consultancy, and in programme coordination at Common Purpose a leadership charity and Forum for the Future.
Posts
How can income generation support locally led development?
Locally led development and a shift in power to local communities is important to Bond, our members and civil society as a whole. So how can income generation support this shift?
Responsible fundraising: moving from discussion to action
As we come to the end of our Responsible Fundraising series, what have we learnt and what next for our work to help support INGOs to become better partners and allies to grassroots activists and local organisations when fundraising?
What should you consider when you are thinking about generating income?
Our latest work on funding looks at whether generating income can not only help with the financial sustainability of organisations, but also support a shift in power to social activists and communities. What have we learned so far?