Racial Equity Tools
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: the power of grassroots-led change for long-term impact and how funders can nurture it
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.
What does it mean to be community‑led? Community leaders’ perspectives on principles, practices and impacts (Part 1)
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.
Understanding the Risks of Nonparticipation in Philanthropy
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.
Weaving a Collective Tapestry: A Funders’ Toolkit for Child and Youth Participation
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.
Why we must overhaul the funding of social movements
To adequately respond to the ongoing crisis of democracy, we must support care and protection strategies for activists.
Individual Questionnaire
A questionnaire for funders to determine a culture of care at the individual, organizational, and grantee levels.
Healing Justice: Building Power, Transforming Movements
A resource for funders to learn more about the work of healing justice.
Astraea Collective Care Blog
The Astraea Collective Care Blog uplifts the transformative work of our grantee partners and the radical, care-based movements they are building, along with centering thought leadership and sharing resources for peer funders and allies on how feminist grantmaking, resourcing, and philanthropic advocacy are critical to the collective care ecosystem.
How Funders Can Support Individual Well-Being
A look at myriad ways funders can support the well-being and mental health of often understaffed and under-resourced grantees, and help foster healthier individuals and organizations.