In recognition of the Foundation’s impact focused approach, the Bridgespan Group, invited the Menzies Foundation to join a select group of 5-6 global funders in support of the Field Building for Equitable Systems Change initiatives.

 The Bridgespan Group, is one of the world’s leading social impact consultants and advisors to nonprofits, NGO’s, corporations, philanthropists, and investors, provides strategy consulting and leadership development that addresses opportunities and challenges related to scaling social impact. 

The multi-year initiative focuses on field building toward equitable systems change. This is a collaborative and comprehensive initiative to significantly increase the amount of flexible philanthropic investment and support going toward field building efforts—including for field catalysts, which function as nerve centres for achieving equitable impact across social sectors. 

The objective is to assist these initiatives and organisations in enhancing their ability to facilitate population-level transformation across various fields and systems that profoundly affect the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. 

The Menzies Foundation strategy is closely aligned with the field building approach. We understand that catalytic initiatives for systemic change are dependent on the development of the field building capability of system intermediaries to scaffold multi-sector collaborations and believe this initiative will make an important contribution to the development of this capability in the system. 

This initiative builds on Bridgespan’s robust research, deep work with proximate leaders, and prior experience on multi-year influence campaigns that change philanthropic practices and norms.