Participatory Grantmaking

Earlier this week, Norad — the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation held an important conversation on shifting power to civil society and local groups in international development. The seminar touched on critical issues related to the #ShiftThePower movement. I had the pleasure of publishing an article in Panorma News (“Bistandsaktuelt)…

Authors: Hannah Paterson, Janet Camarena, Katy Love, Martin Modlinger, Kuini Rabo, Ciciley Moore, Andrea Ackerman, Sereima Kalouniviti In December, Human Rights Funders Network people gathered in Oaxaca, Mexico from across the globe to connect, reconnect, imagine a better future and explore ways that move money to achieve this. Last time…

By Hafid Ali & Natasha Friend Content Warning: This article contains mention of death Who we are Hafid – I was born and raised in Camden and started Camden United Football Club with my best friend and cousin, Abdulaziz Munye. We set out to make a positive change in our borough by using…

By Emily Sullivan This topic is also explored in a conversation with Derek Bardowell, CEO of Ten Years Time and author of Giving Back: How to do Good Better. Tis the season of giving… and something interesting is happening… There is an ongoing reckoning for top-down philanthropy. Yet, giving season…

By Hannah Paterson Last week the Association of Charitable Funders (ACF) hosted the first mass in-person funders event in the UK since 2019. It was exciting and slightly overwhelming to be surrounded by so many people. …

By Hannah Paterson The Participatory Grantmaking Community was born early in 2020, on a Zoom call with 12 people. The Community started as a simple listserv, with philanthropy practitioners comparing notes on their participatory grantmaking processes, and comparing better practices. But within the following weeks and months, more people started…

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…

By: Shaena Johnson and Marni Rosen The Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective (EJRC) at the Kataly Foundation is a group of nine women of color movement leaders who have a long history of engagement in intersectional environmental and social justice work. After being established at Kataly in 2020, the nine leaders…

We are thrilled to announce that the Girls’ Fund will support 28 girl-led groups globally. The process Upon receiving the applications, the Plan International team conducted an initial review of groups to ensure that they had a clear proposal for engaging with the Generation Equality process and met the criteria…