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Finding My People, Rewriting the Script: A Reflection on the PGM Start Well-Cohort 1

Finding My People, Rewriting the Script: A Reflection on the PGM Start Well-Cohort 1

By Sara Wilcox, Executive Director of Snow-Redfern Foundation
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PGM Community
May 1
PGM Community New Accountability Circle Members

PGM Community New Accountability Circle Members

Keeping it community-led since 2022
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PGM Community
Mar 4
PGM Start Well Program: Learning and Connecting.

PGM Start Well Program: Learning and Connecting.

Over the last 5 years, the PGM Community of Practice has seen a growing interest in participatory grantmaking and identified an important…
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PGM Community
Feb 24
PGM in times of crisis: Insights from the Event on Participatory Grantmaking During Polycrisis.

PGM in times of crisis: Insights from the Event on Participatory Grantmaking During Polycrisis.

By Gloria Mugabekazi.
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PGM Community
Nov 2, 2024
PGM Community new programming and a glimpse at our Journey over the years.

PGM Community new programming and a glimpse at our Journey over the years.

We are so thrilled to have launched our new PGM programming for the community in June, 2024. This journey has been marked with curiosity…
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PGM Community
Aug 13, 2024
Introducing the PGM Community’s Accountability Circle

Introducing the PGM Community’s Accountability Circle

After a long anticipated wait, we are incredibly excited to introduce to the Participatory Grantmaking Community our newly elected…
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By Participatory Grantmakers
Sep 18, 2022
A word about language

A word about language

by Katy Love & Ruby Johnson
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PGM Community
Mar 24, 2024
Future of PGM

Future of PGM

A poem by Coco Jervis
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PGM Community
Dec 16, 2023
The community approach to problem-solving

The community approach to problem-solving

By Sarina Dayal
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PGM Community
Apr 19, 2023
Influencing Philanthropy: How Participatory Grantmaking Gained Momentum — and What’s Next

Influencing Philanthropy: How Participatory Grantmaking Gained Momentum — and What’s Next

Authors: Hannah Paterson, Janet Camarena, Katy Love, Martin Modlinger, Kuini Rabo, Ciciley Moore, Andrea Ackerman, Sereima Kalouniviti
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Meg Massey
Jan 23, 2023
Navigating the Pain in Participatory Grantmaking

Navigating the Pain in Participatory Grantmaking

By Hafid Ali & Natasha Friend
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PGM Community
Jan 10, 2023
How Will Participatory Philanthropy Take Center Stage this Giving Season?

How Will Participatory Philanthropy Take Center Stage this Giving Season?

By Emily Sullivan
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PGM Community
Nov 28, 2022
What’s Next for PGM?

What’s Next for PGM?

By Hannah Paterson
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PGM Community
Nov 25, 2022
The Making of a Community

The Making of a Community

By Hannah Paterson
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PGM Community
Nov 16, 2022
Recap: PGM Community London Meetup!

Recap: PGM Community London Meetup!

Our first face-to-face event took place in the Story Garden, ‘the garden of a thousand hands’, an incredible community-run oasis in the…
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Jelena Stephenson
Sep 29, 2022

Feedback with Love

I’ve been having a lot of conversations over recent months about what collective accountability can and should look like. The Participatory…
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Hannah Paterson
Jul 12, 2021
Paying Decision-Makers — Participatory Grantmakers

Paying Decision-Makers — Participatory Grantmakers

Please note that this blog post is based on our own research and should not be considered as advice around benefits or taxation. We…
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PGM Community
Apr 6, 2021
Putting Participation in Participatory Grantmaking by Khadra Aden

Putting Participation in Participatory Grantmaking by Khadra Aden

If we are doing Participatory Grantmaking by just inviting people to engage in the work that we do, in the way that we do it, without any…
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Hannah Paterson
Feb 9, 2021
The Future of Participatory Grantmaking — some questions to get you thinking

The Future of Participatory Grantmaking — some questions to get you thinking

Questions for the the Future of Participatory Grantmaking
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Hannah Paterson
Jan 27, 2021
Questions for Funders to Reflect on

Questions for Funders to Reflect on

Yesterday was the first in a series of leanring events on participatory grantmaking to launch my Fellowship report — Grassroots…
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Hannah Paterson
Jan 14, 2021

Participatory Grantmaking in the UK — our common obstacles to overcome

What seems like a different lifetime ago, I was lucky enough to run a session on participatory grant making (PGM) at the #LosingControl…
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Hannah Paterson
Jun 29, 2020
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