Fund a cluster
One landscape. Every team on the same standard.
A cluster is a group of organisations sharing one landscape. Funding a cluster brings them onto one standard together, so neighbouring teams train, lead and respond the same way.
How the money moves: we sign the agreement with each organisation in the cluster and report on it. Most of the grant pays for LEAD delivery. Where the cluster needs it, part goes directly to them — life-saver kits, equipment, and their own ITR implementation. The share is scoped to what the landscape needs, and it is written into the agreement before anything starts.
WHAT A CLUSTER GRANT COVERS
Training, and the kit to use it.
LEAD delivery
Assessment at the gate, courses across the cluster, instructor development inside each organisation, and certification onto the register.
Equipment and implementation
Where needed: life-saver kits and course equipment, and support for each organisation’s own ITR implementation — scoped per landscape, agreed in writing.
One standard across borders
Teams from different organisations trained to the same drills and the same language, so a joint response works on the day it matters.
Evidence for the landscape
A capability baseline at the start, measured change against it, and the annual MEL cycle covering every organisation in the cluster.
€150,000–200,000 a year funds a cluster, scoped to its size and needs. Three years is the usual arc: assess, certify, step back.
Due diligence
Check us before you back us.
Every claim on this page can be checked before you commit. Here is where to start.
Read our doctrine
Integrated Threat Reduction is open, Creative Commons licensed, and listed as a resource by the ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing.
Examine our evidence
Ask us for the full Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning report — methodology, sample sizes, and limitations included.
Call our partners
Our work has been recognised twice with the Herman Goldstein Award for problem-oriented policing. But our partners are the better reference — we will connect you directly.
Verify our status
LEAD Conservation is a Dutch foundation with ANBI public-benefit status and CBF certification — independently assessed governance, tax-deductible for Dutch and many EU donors.
One structural fact worth checking: we sign the agreement with each organisation in the cluster and report on it. Most of a cluster grant pays for LEAD delivery; where the landscape needs it, part goes to the organisations themselves for equipment and their own ITR implementation, scoped and written in before anything starts.
When you're satisfied, we talk about a landscape and the organisations in it.
Practical questions
Before you write
Equipment depreciates and operating costs recur, so they need funding again every year. Capability compounds: instructors keep teaching, leaders keep deciding, analysts keep preventing. A cluster grant covers both — delivery first, and the equipment the teams need to use it. Several partners now redirect former external-training budgets into equipment and welfare, because the training is internalised.
Delivery: our trainers and mentors on the ground, capability assessment, certification and moderation, analyst development, and the monitoring cycle that measures it all. Each partnership has a scoped budget you see before you commit. We are a lean foundation — there is no gala circuit on your invoice.
Three ways: certification records (who can do what, verified at competence gates), the annual MEL cycle (interviews, surveys, competency data against the year-one baseline), and the year-three test that matters most — the team running its own training without us. We report failures and obstacles alongside successes; our MEL documents have always done so.
Yes. LEAD is fiscally sponsored by Re:wild, a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (Tax ID 26-2887967) — a well-established arrangement in US philanthropy through which an American charity accepts gifts that support a partner’s programs and projects. Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed under the law. Give online via Re:wild’s donation page for LEAD ↗, or mention it in your message and we’ll set up a tailored route together.
Yes — smaller contributions join pooled funding that supports the same partnerships, and every amount is ANBI tax-deductible. Use our support page, or write to us; we’ll tell you exactly what your contribution will do.
Step one
Start the conversation
Tell us who you are and what you want your funding to achieve. You’ll deal directly with our leadership from the first reply.