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Schedule weekly time to do reflection, self-care or reading

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Root conversations in historical facts.  Share specific stories

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Root conversations in historical facts.  Share specific stories

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Encourage book clubs to build shared understanding.  Recommend books.  Read them myself!

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Encourage book clubs to build shared understanding.  Recommend books.  Read them myself!

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Work with indigenous, gender expansive folks to tell native histories and stories that offer an alternative frame to settler-colonialism.

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Continue to educate myself on relearning history and consuming books from a wide variety of BIPOC authors

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Continue to educate myself on relearning history and consuming books from a wide variety of BIPOC authors

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Say "no"

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create space for resentment, anger, and fragility

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create space for resentment, anger, and fragility

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i will continue to educate on the brillance and resilience of these communities, esp with Black people as a way to strengthen the foundation of self.

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i will continue to educate on the brillance and resilience of these communities, esp with Black people as a way to strengthen the foundation of self.

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Help support the creation and convening of affinity or race based caucuses

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Be OK will stepping back and stepping away from spaces that are harmful - even if they are spaces for solidarity work.

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Be OK will stepping back and stepping away from spaces that are harmful - even if they are spaces for solidarity work.

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Continue holding holistic healing spaces for Black women to rest, share, and be well.

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Create personal and professional affinity spaces.

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Create personal and professional affinity spaces.

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Continue to educate myself about the stories of others

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continue to identify people of different ethnicities and backgrounds to join our organization and share their knowledge and perspective

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Have a clear purpose for organizing and identify specifically how people can contribute. Give everyone a role that allows them to use their strengths.

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connect on the intersection of mindfulness and racial liberation.

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To listen to hear and not to speak.

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Seek out/Share/Promote empowering stories of BIPOC community to shift the narrative

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Offer work time for BIPOC to engage in healing practices

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Advocate for educational materials in my spaces that have been authored directly by Black and Indigenous Voices 

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Advocate for educational materials in my spaces that have been authored directly by Black and Indigenous Voices 

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Ask who benefits? who is burdened? who is left out? how do we know? anytime you develop a policy or new practice at work

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Start with centering Black and Indigenous voices/insight/experience, instead of wondering where it is later.

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Start with centering Black and Indigenous voices/insight/experience, instead of wondering where it is later.

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Cultivate my personal sense of Grace and Accountability

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Cultivate my personal sense of Grace and Accountability

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In orgs, consistently offer land acknowledgements, have everyone share their pronouns, speak openly about how white supremacy culture has shaped your work/community/industry

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In orgs, consistently offer land acknowledgements, have everyone share their pronouns, speak openly about how white supremacy culture has shaped your work/community/industry

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Find ways to foster inclusive decision-making (center those impacted)

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Examine the ways which black folks (myself included) can perpetuate harm in conversations about solidarity

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Examine the ways which black folks (myself included) can perpetuate harm in conversations about solidarity

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A group of participatory grantmakers is currently joining efforts to develop a Grantcraft Guide to help other funders advance this practice. This core group, includes Disability Rights Fund, FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, Red Umbrella Fund, UHAI, and the Wikimedia Foundation who have operated as a working group under the International Human Rights Funders Group. After being asked repeatedly to share good practice they thought it would be best to document the practice of participatory grantmaking through a larger scale tool.

In July 2016, the core group convened a group of practitioners in partnership with Foundation Center, which included: Central American Women's Fund, Ford Foundation, Semillas, Rawa Fund, Third Wave Fund, Trans Justice Funding Project, RSF Social Finance, and OSIFE. The group spent a day in New York's sweltering heat discussing participatory grantmaking and exchanged learnings and ideas. We began exploring critical questions for a GrantCraft guide, including: What types of models are currently being used? What are some of the strengths and challenges of this work? Why is this method of grantmaking so important for broader systems change? Below are some of the highlights from the conversation.
Why should we engage in participatory grantmaking?
One common thread among the leaders at this meeting was a passionate vision that this type of grantmaking isn't solely about more effective grantmaking, although often an important byproduct, but rather demonstrates a paradigm shift in how we work with our grantees as agents of change in their communities rather than simply as beneficiaries of aid. It goes beyond grantmaking into the importance of advancing public and democratic participation in decision making. In essence, the process itself is part of the impact!
What types of participatory practices are out there? What others would we like to see?
Every aspect of the grantmaking process can be adapted to invite community participation, all the way up to allowing grantees final decision-making authority over funding. There is a spectrum in terms of the level of participation communities can have in the grantmaking process and a diversity of approaches, however, all practitioners present valued the knowledge and expertise of the communities they work within their funding process.

A 2013 article from Alliance Magazine describes many of these models in more detail.
What are the strengths of participatory grantmaking processes?
Many strengths were shared about working in this framework: shared responsibility, community responsibility for due-diligence, transparency and accountability to the community, advanced democratic practice, civic engagement, accessibility, innovation and trust, bridges across communities and issues, leadership development, self-determination, and collaborative learning. A culture of participatory grantmaking increases the diversity of decision-makers, strengthens decisions, and allows more funding at the grassroots level.
What are the challenges?
A challenge noted by the group is that this type of grantmaking takes more time to manage because the work involves community building. This process brings people together and builds networks which develop leadership, communities, and civic engagement, but can be mistaken to be less efficient, when we fail to account for how strategic and informed the eventual investments are. It is also important to note that the required time depends on the community you're trying to engage and the scope of the work (i.e. a neighborhood fund vs. an international fund)

In addition, there are challenges around working in communities where power dynamics are delicate and entrenched. It can be a challenge to identify leaders, ensure that participation is happening, or prevent the current power dynamics from replicating themselves.
Opportunities
An opportunity emerged around working to document the qualitative and quantitative benefits of using a participatory framework to help funders better appreciate the benefits of participatory models. The GrantCraft guide will be an important place to share best practices and implementation ideas for other funders, as well as lessons learned from those experimenting with this framework.

In the end, the shared vision of this group is that in all communities there needs to be a shift towards funding approaches that advance agency and self-determination. As highlighted recently during the Global Summit on Community Philanthropy, it is time to #ShiftThePower when it comes to funding.
If you are interested in learning more about participatory grantmaking and this GrantCraft suite of resource, connect with us at [email protected] .

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Why Every Funder Should Consider Participatory Grantmaking | GrantCraft

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A group of participatory grantmakers is currently joining efforts to develop a Grantcraft Guide to help other funders advance this practice. This core group, includes Disability Rights Fund, FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund, Red Umbrella Fund, UHAI, and the Wikimedia Foundation who have operated as a working group under the International Human Rights Funders Group.

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Center black and indigenous people in discussion about race, be specific

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Commit to casual social spaces (e.g. book club, dinner groups, etc)

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Commit to casual social spaces (e.g. book club, dinner groups, etc)

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Create spaces for dialogue in affinity spaces where we specifically address the trauma, fragility, anger and resentment that can get in the way of our solidarity.

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Use this when diagnosing instances of internalized racism presenting in the workplace

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Use this when diagnosing instances of internalized racism presenting in the workplace

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I commit to decolonize the way I talk about groups in conversations in order to bring awareness to colonized thinking/framing, esp with my non-Blacks.

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I commit to decolonize the way I talk about groups in conversations in order to bring awareness to colonized thinking/framing, esp with my non-Blacks.

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practice both rigor and patience. moving people is essential and, takes time. use your discernment on when to keep working and when to pause.

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practice both rigor and patience. moving people is essential and, takes time. use your discernment on when to keep working and when to pause.

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Reflect on when I have caused hard and try to understand the root of my actions to learn from these experiences

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I like using the social location wheel as a conversation starter about power and identity

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In This Issue

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Reimagining Grantmaking - PEAK Grantmaking

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In This Issue What's new and notable from PEAK Grantmaking - from exclusive member benefits, to member news, events highlights, and what's ahead. PEAK Community The latest from PEAK's vibrant network of grantmaking professionals, featuring member news, a board election updates, chapter event highlights, and a new-member welcome.

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Meet with the Black racial affinity group to discuss the importance of BIPOC solidarity and work toward the cultural humility needed, as a collective, to embrace others

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Meet with the Black racial affinity group to discuss the importance of BIPOC solidarity and work toward the cultural humility needed, as a collective, to embrace others

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Set and model (be transparent about) setting boundaries. Exercise your "no". Notice when your "yes" is full-bodied.

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Set and model (be transparent about) setting boundaries. Exercise your "no". Notice when your "yes" is full-bodied.

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Support the development of our leadership program at work for BIPOC as a space for connection and mutual learning

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help to educate youth with accurate historical facts that inform them and create future advocates for equity

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help to educate youth with accurate historical facts that inform them and create future advocates for equity

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Reflect on those moments that I walk in privilege and at whose expense is my privilege

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Challenge and fight to dismantle existing structures and processes that harm BIPOC folx. Sacrifice my power and privilege for the benefit of other BIPOC folx.

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continue to advocate in my organization

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Connect with my local environmental professional of color network

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Find co-conspirators to partner with at the front end so the work isn't dependent on me/1-person bearing the load

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Find co-conspirators to partner with at the front end so the work isn't dependent on me/1-person bearing the load

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Black joy is healing and an act of resistance- get you some!

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Trust BIPOC folx to shape their narrative, center and uplift their stories. PAY THEM for their emotional labor.

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The history of why most things are the way they are ties back to racism. So challenging organizational norms by asking why as many times as needed might help to get to truthful storytelling.

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Tell stories that are rooted in equity, uplift the people who are affected, resist white savior narratives, and call out systemic oppression, instead of tap dancing around it.

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Show up in a way that is meaningful (in and outside of work). Ask how I can be supportive.