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Mismatched: Philanthropy’s Response to the Call for Racial Justice is the most comprehensive assessment of racial equity and racial justice funding to date, providing a detailed analysis of funding from 2015–2018 and a preliminary analysis for 2020.
Resources from PEAK Grantmaking's Principles for Peak Grantmaking -- specifically on driving equity.
A simple tool for funders to assess how equitable your funding practices are.
Tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.
Community-driven systems change is an approach to development and social transformation that emphasizes the insight, leadership, and ownership of the people who are living and experiencing issues at the community level, and their work to create lasting change in the systems and root causes that underlie the critical issues they seek to address.
A Community‑Led Assessment Tool to help determine the degree to which organizations are community‑led. The Tool considers nine essential characteristics of community‑led work (considered universally applicable) and 17 important characteristics (applicable depending on context). This report details the research approach and methods, key findings, the tools and options for operationalizing them, and recommendations for how GlobalGiving can increase support for community‑led approaches among funders and other external audiences.
How philanthropic organizations can better understand the degree to which they include beneficiaries in their decision-making processes, how contextual considerations shape participation, and where problems and opportunities lie.
The Funders’ Toolkit for Child and Youth Participation, co-created by an amazing group of young leaders, and with the guidance of an advisory committee and the ECFG Child and Youth Participation working group, is the first of its kind to offer support and guidance on the substantive “how-to” of child and youth participation - tailored specifically to funders.
To adequately respond to the ongoing crisis of democracy, we must support care and protection strategies for activists.
A questionnaire for funders to determine a culture of care at the individual, organizational, and grantee levels.