Build a budget that doesn't betray your values.
Free. Interactive. Every line item includes the values-based justification you need to defend it to a funder.
Most social impact budgets quietly contradict the programmes they're supposed to fund. Participant honoraria left out. Wellbeing budget removed to hit the funder's ceiling. The things that make community work actually work — cut first.
This tool puts them back in.
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Plus a short note on why most social impact budgets reproduce the very power dynamics they claim to challenge.
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WHAT THE BUDGET BUILDER INCLUDES
- 9 categories covering people, community access, learning, wellbeing, delivery, governance, communications, reciprocity, and overhead
- Every line item includes the values-based justification — ready to paste into a funder proposal
- Wisdom fund line: dedicated investment in amplifying what already exists in community
- Participant honoraria as a non-negotiable, not an optional extra
- Auto-calculated overhead and contingency
- 35 currencies across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and MENA — no default, no geographic centering
- Download as Excel or PDF. Yours to keep.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY
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Built on the same principles that have trained 139 practitioners across 6 cohorts.
❝ Monitoring and evaluation is designed around what funders want to measure rather than what communities actually need. This course — and these tools — finally address that.❞
— Research Design for Social Impact participant, 2024
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