Earlier this fall, Spring Impact, in collaboration with Impact for Breakfast, hosted an event, ‘Deploying Funding for Scale: Lessons from Investors,’ alongside British International Investment and Epic Foundation. The conversation was focused on how…
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This article by Muhi Khwaja was previously published on Nov. 9, 2023 in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Reprinted with permission. Donors committed to human rights must stop turning a blind…
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Too often, people with little on-the-ground experience of the situations they seek to change determine the funding areas and strategies within philanthropy. And the institutions hiring individuals with lived experience…
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As philanthropy grapples with weighty questions about its responsibility and role in addressing systemic issues, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the Shifting Systems Initiative are diving deeper into issues the initiative has explored since its inception ……
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Although the idea of participatory grantmaking is relatively new, community-driven giving practices have been around for a long time, including the mutual aid networks established by Black communities in the…
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I was walking with a young leader of an Indian civic engagement organisation last week, when he shared a perspective that stayed with me.He said, “Sometimes, society believes its role is solely to resist ……
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Click here for more.Introduction: The Continuous Invitation For Growth For all of us engaged in allocating resources through philanthropy, whether as donors, advisors, or foundation staff it’s common to set our north star…
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Top-down, transactional philanthropic funding has long been the norm, with donors determining their priorities and nonprofit beneficiaries being tasked with arduous proposal and reporting requirements to receive grant dollars. In…
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Trust-based philanthropy reorients grantmaking by redistributing power and putting greater emphasis on collaboration, transparency, and equity.
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Shifting power means that grantee organizations drive the agenda through donor-grantee relationships based on trust, support, and solidarity.
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In philanthropy, frameworks can become cages. When we find a promising approach, it’s all too easy to get trapped by it. My own career is a cautionary tale. After college…
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At Philanthropy Northwest, we are thinking more expansively about our unique role as a philanthropy-serving organization and how we use our influence and privilege to advocate for systems change, center…