The Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute is a multi-part series of conversations and resources for learning, information sharing and actionable next steps. The goal is to raise awareness and recognition of how racism, patriarchy, and power permeate the international child rights and child protection field. This session’s speakers discussed the funding ecosystem’s challenges and barriers and highlighted examples of how innovative funding mechanisms are reinventing donor giving by shifting resources and power closer to the children, young people, families, and communities they are meant to support. This session looked back at what has gone wrong but, more importantly, will look forward by giving us solutions and hope for change.