Accelerating Equitable Grantmaking: Seizing the Moment to Norm Multiyear, Flexible Funding
Multi-year, flexible funding requires funders to overcome obstacles by implementing accelerators.
Racial Justice and Social Transformation: How Funders Can Act
A report for those interested in advancing racial justice in the UK.
Gender-Lens Philanthropy: A practical guide for Canadian foundations
This guide is intended to help foundations increase the impact of their grantmaking by increasing the awareness of gender as an important factor throughout the organization and the granting process.
Moving More Money to the Drivers of Change: How Bilateral and Multilateral Funders Can Resource Feminist Movements
Feminist movements are key drivers of transformative and lasting change. Yet they continue to receive just 1% of all gender focused aid. The case for WHY feminist movements need more and better funding has long been made, and is increasingly heard. Now HOW funding moves needs to change.
Transformative Philanthropy for Racial Justice
We created the Democracy Frontlines Fund to enable experienced anti-racist organizers to do their crucial work. They taught us how to do philanthropy better.
Mismatched: Philanthropy’s Response to the Call for Racial Justice
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.
Drive Equity
Resources from PEAK Grantmaking's Principles for Peak Grantmaking -- specifically on driving equity.
Equitable Grantmaking Continuum
A simple tool for funders to assess how equitable your funding practices are.
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.