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Stories

Better Preparedness Playbook and Suite of...

Roses in the concrete: Seeding human rights...

From Scrappy Upstarts to Mainstream Movement...
The Advancing Participation in Philanthropy Tool (APPT) is a self-assessment tool that looks at organizational...

The Other Foundation: Embodying the Human...
The Other Foundation is a community foundation that gathers support to advance and defend the freedom...

Trust Gap Advisors
We are deeply grateful to the funders and civil society advisors who have volunteered their time and...

Why Ukraine (and other crises) urgently need...
Rights-focused grants promote access to aid that is equitable, holistic, and more easily distributed...

A Collective Effort to Encourage Larger...
Reflections from the Discovery Journey session, “Encouraging more windfall grants: Acting upon learnings...

Reflections on “How intersectional...
Sienna, Alexis, and Erin offer reflections on why their Discovery Journey, “How intersectional grantmaking...

Turning crisis into long-term action: Seeding...

Reflections on Discovery Journey on Crisis...
During HRFN Funding Futures Festival, the Open Society Foundations, the Peace and Security Funders Group...

Create Stories that Change the World
Reflections from the Discovery Journey session, “Create Stories that Change the World: Funding BIPOC...

Abortion Justice: Building a Generative Funding...
Reflections from the Discovery Journey session, “Abortion: Solidarity without Stigma to Construct our...
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