Customized programs
Transform how your team or partners lead, collaborate and mobilize resources
When you, your colleagues and partners care deeply about your work, shoulder immense responsibilities and do it all under intense resource pressures, even the most committed teams can get tangled in burnout, friction and stuckness.
We offer customized programs in the areas of leadership development, financial resilience, and cultures of collaboration that are tailored to your group’s unique realities and goals because we know that your challenges are unique.
Partners seeking tailored programs include:
- Leadership teams, including directors, managers and coordinators
- Teams within organizations
- Foundations supporting their grantee partners or skilling up their staff
- Networks of people, organizations and movements
- Organizations seeking institution-wide support
Why Spring?
We’re not your typical capacity development partner.
We meet you where you are with a highly customized learning experience built around your goals, your mission and your context. You can expect dynamic, participatory spaces where you’ll engage, practice, and reflect in real time. And you won’t be doing it alone: each program is also a vibrant peer-learning community, where changemakers connect, share insights, and grow together on the path to more grounded, impactful leadership.
We’ve partnered with 1,000+ organizations in 100 countries on leadership coaching, financial resilience and meaningful collaboration.
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What this looks like in practice
Since 2019, we have partnered with funders, networks, and teams around the world to co-design programs that fit their unique needs. Here are a few examples.
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FIRE with Ford Foundation BUILD grantees
Since 2019, Spring has partnered with the Ford Foundation to support 145 of their Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD) initiative grantees worldwide to build lasting financial strength through the FIRE program. These organizations — primarily based in Global Majority countries and working at the frontlines of environmental and climate justice, gender and racial equity, civil rights, and the inclusion of historically excluded communities — have used FIRE to chart bold new paths toward financial resilience.
Each cohort kicked off with a high-energy 3-day intensive exploring four pillars of financial strength: funding landscapes, resource mobilization, strategic finance, and purposeful communications. From there, participants received 6–8 months of hands-on accompaniment, including five thematic webinars and tailored coaching to refine and implement their FIRE action plans in real time.
To extend and deepen the learning, we also ran two cohorts for BUILD FIRE graduates and hosted 12 FIRE Global Innovation Series sessions designed for grantees to share and learn about cutting-edge practices, emerging trends, and real-world experiments in building resilient financial futures.
Sessions were offered in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Indonesian, with full translation of program materials. Participants also received access to a customized digital FIRE Learning Lab in their language of choice, enabling continuous learning and application.
FIRE with Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Spring partners with the Tenure Facility to support 29 of their grantees who comprise of Indigenous Peoples and local communities focused on land rights. We designed a highly customized FIRE program centered on real-life financial needs —transactional and managerial finance, with a touch of strategic finance to support long-term resilience. The program includes a 5-day in-person training, tailored coaching, and a final cohort convening to consolidate learning and chart next steps.
We deliver the program in English, Spanish and French, with materials translated into Nepali and Hindi. Each organization receives a practical finance manual and full access to our digital FIRE Learning Lab in their preferred language.
The Leadership Kitchen with OSF grantees
Spring partnered with Open Society Foundations to support 227 of their grantees through a capacity development program called The Leadership Kitchen.
We designed six tailored, three-hour virtual meetups on leadership, management and governance themes, blending facilitated sessions with practice components on topics like decision-making, organizational growth, and conflict.
Sessions were offered in English with Spanish, French, and Portuguese interpretation, along with translated materials. Participants also received access to a customized digital Leadership Lab in their language of choice and the option to join small-group or individual coaching sessions.
Collaboration partnerships
Alongside funders, networks, and teams, we have co-designed programs that support both internal staff and the wider community of grantees and members to make their collaborative work more engaging and impactful. This typically consisted of:
- A virtual launch call
- 3-day virtual or in-person intensive on topics such as perspective-taking, working with conflict and disagreement, building alignment, and embracing complexity
- 3 months of accompaniment that can include coaching and/or thematic webinars on topics like managing creative tensions and decision-making rules
- Online lab for self-directed learning
Partner with us
Ready to co-design support for your grantees, partners or team? We’d love to collaborate.
Our small but mighty team of 39 people in 13 countries has roots in human rights movements and philanthropic environments worldwide — allowing us to offer support that is culturally relevant, context-aware, and deeply relational.
Inclusion is important to us, so we will work with your budget constraints.
