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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Not sure if participatory grantmaking is for you or maybe you need a refresher on what it is? Is this you?

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Trends in Grantmaking: Bring Your Community into Your Decision-Making Through Participatory Grantmaking

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Foundations and grantmaking organizations are trying to untangle some of the world’s messiest problems: homelessness, food insecurity, climate change, and the rights of people who are often overlooked, to name a few. That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking?

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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

The origins of some foundations’ wealth, which in some cases includes slavery and other forms of exploitation. Unicorns Unite: How nonprofits and foundations can build EPIC Partnerships. In the March Toward Equity and Justice, Foundations Need to Remember: It’s Not Our Money to Control. Philanthropy is at a turning point.

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How to Make Better Decisions Online

Non Profit Quarterly

It’s time for nonprofits and foundations to upgrade our digital decision-making tools. We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy that aims “to expand people’s power to make government decisions.”

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a deliberate, organic, and aggressively inclusive manner, advised Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and consultant Eugene Eric Kim, at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” conference yesterday.

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2020: The Year that Changed Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

Foundations are in the midst of a sudden and unexpected upheaval of long-held grantmaking practices. Foundations have a fiduciary responsibility to be good stewards of their endowment. Once submitted, the application is scrutinized and debated across the organization –often requiring time consuming revisions of the proposal.

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Vlog Fundraising and Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. I did a campaign video. I don't know what I mean yet.

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