Paths by role
Funders and philanthropy
Where support could matter most, what works, and who could carry it to people.
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Where is the need?
Twelve cities and what heat is doing in each, with the plans already in place.
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What works, and how sure are we?
131 ways to protect people, each with its evidence, cost and limits.
Read first: Combinations that work together · Blind spots
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What is still unknown?
Twelve questions the evidence has not yet answered, each sized for one well-designed study, and where evidence looks stronger than the funding we traced.
Read first: Questions nobody has answered yet · Stronger evidence, little funding traced
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Where is money flowing, and where is it not?
Fifty pieces of traced funding, followed from who gave them to the cycles they could help break, with the role each plays.
Read first: The role money plays · Cycles we have not yet traced
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Who could carry it to people?
For each action, who could permit it, pay for it, deliver it and check it, with the organisations already at work and the parts where we found no one yet.
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How could a few grants work together?
Choose Sketch a portfolio: a few grants across places and roles, and see which cycles it reaches, what it leans on and what would make it last.
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How could you take part?
Bring a question, a portfolio or a place. Common Shade is a collaborative: shade is something we hold up together.