Ethical funding principles

Our commitment to you

At ASDC we promise to practise the following principals in the ongoing communication, monitoring and administration of our grant programmes and aim to be transparent at every stage of the funding process:

• Equity:  We are open to challenges of the structures we have in place that may contribute to these opportunities being less equitable across our sector. We commit to addressing all those within our power and remain transparent on decision-making processes, including who received funding and under what conditions these decisions were made.
• Humility:  We do not presume to know the best methods or approaches to address these grant criteria within your context and will openly challenge explicit and implicit power-dynamics emerging from these presumptions within our funding partnership.
• Evidence: Where it is within our power, ASDC commits to using evidence to inform and justify all decisions on funding criteria and will value evidence-informed, professional proposals.
• Service: Through listening to the sector, we aim to ensure that grant seekers are being provided for with this fund and, wherever possible, the grant proposal processes we have in place support the needs of the grant seekers above the needs of the funders.
• Diligence: We encourage open and honest feedback on our process, are willing to listen, consider timelines, provide 1-2-1 support and will work to the best of our ability to allow for grant seekers to make the best of this grant opportunity.