About the session
In this session, Marion Birsstill shares her personal journey of applying the Three Horizons Framework to reshape philanthropic strategies for systemic change. Drawing from her experience redesigning a climate philanthropy portfolio, she demonstrates how the framework helps balance immediate impact with long-term transformation.
Key Learning Points:
- Horizon 1: Maintaining essential current initiatives while recognising their limitations.
- Horizon 2: Scaling experimental solutions that bridge today’s needs and tomorrow’s possibilities.
- Horizon 3: Cultivating visionary ideas that redefine systems.
Participants will engage in a hands-on exercise to map their own projects across the horizons and discuss challenges like funding tensions between short-term results and deep innovation.
Ideal for: Funders, NGO leaders, and systems change practitioners looking to align their work with a more transformative future.
