We Actively Value Equity!
We are constantly exploring, researching , and learning about ways our company can assist and empower our community, across the education & nonprofit sectors. Our experience and learning has brought us to Participatory Grantmaking and its transformational potential. We hope these resources are helpful as you develop and challenge your organizations equity work. Please let us know if you have resources we can include.
We are constantly exploring, researching , and learning about ways our company can assist and empower our community, across the education & nonprofit sectors. Our experience and learning has brought us to Participatory Grantmaking and its transformational potential. We hope these resources are helpful as you develop and challenge your organizations equity work. Please let us know if you have resources we can include.
Participatory Grantmaking
Participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding - including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions - to the very communities that funders aim to serve.
- Candid | @CandidDotOrg
- Candid | @CandidDotOrg
Another World Is Possible: Revolutionizing Fundraising & Grantmaking through Headwaters’ Giving Project
Giving Project Learning Community
Headwaters Foundation For Justice, Minnesota
Headwaters Foundation for Justice is on the leading edge of philanthropy. We were created and endure from a simple and powerful truth: the people who experience injustice are essential to ending it. |
Social Justice Fund Northwest, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho
Social Justice Fund Northwest is a foundation working at the frontlines of social change. We leverage the resources of our members to foster significant, long-term social justice solutions throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. |
Chinook Fund, Colorado
Chinook Fund supports grassroots organizations working on issues of social and economic justice; by pooling our collective resources, we seed groups making a positive, systemic impact to improve the quality of life for all Coloradoans. |
Crossroads Fund, Chicago
Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on issues of racial, social and economic justice in the Chicago area. Crossroads Fund leads in the philanthropic sector by supporting innovative organizing models that build strong movements for racial, social and economic justice. |
North Star Fund, New York
North Star Fund is New York City’s community foundation working to create a more just and equitable city. By organizing donors, raising funds for grassroots activism, and distributing grants, we support efforts ranging from better schools, housing and health care, to protecting civil liberties and creating living wage jobs. |
Bread & Roses Community Fund, Philadelphia
Bread & Roses Community Fund believes in change, not charity. We organize donors at all levels to support community-based groups in building movements for racial equity and economic opportunity. We support movements and their leaders through fundraising, grantmaking, capacity building, and convening. |
Grassroots International
Grassroots International connects people in the US with global movements solving the root causes of inequality and climate change. |
Deciding Together: Shifting Power & Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking
grantcraft.org | #ShiftThePower |
Participatory Grantmaking (Webinar)
Candid | March 5, 2019
Candid | March 5, 2019
Participatory Grantmaking Suite by Grantcraft
This suite of GrantCraft resources addresses this gap by exploring the what, how, and why of participatory grantmaking—an approach to philanthropy that cedes decision-making authority to the very communities affected by funding decisions.
This suite of GrantCraft resources addresses this gap by exploring the what, how, and why of participatory grantmaking—an approach to philanthropy that cedes decision-making authority to the very communities affected by funding decisions.
Other Participatory Grantmakers?
U.S. (National)
Headwaters Foundation for Justice | Est. 1983
Case Foundation | Est. 2007
Grantcraft & Governance Lab | Est. 2016
John & James L. Knight Foundation | Est. 2006
NoVo Foundation | Est. 2016
Wikimedia Foundation | Est. 2014 (?)
Annie E Casey Foundation | Est. 1999
Brooklyn Community Foundation | Est. 2014
Headwaters Foundation for Justice | Est. 1983
Case Foundation | Est. 2007
Grantcraft & Governance Lab | Est. 2016
John & James L. Knight Foundation | Est. 2006
NoVo Foundation | Est. 2016
Wikimedia Foundation | Est. 2014 (?)
Annie E Casey Foundation | Est. 1999
Brooklyn Community Foundation | Est. 2014