Do Participatory Grantmakers Have More Fun?
Last week Derek Bardowell asked me “how are your happiness levels?”. Then Hannah Paterson tweeted #ParticipatoryGrantmakersHaveMoreFun. Yes, I am pretty happy. Yes, I do think participatory grantmakers have more fun. […]
How can we keep people safe in participatory grant-making?
How can we keep people safe in participatory grant-making? Power. Who has it? How do they keep it? How do they use it for good or ill? Who is denied […]
Future of PGM
Future of PGM, a poem by Coco Jarvis
Feedback with Love
How do we use this space to make philanthropy and the work many of us are doing better?
The community approach to problem solving
Participatory grantmaking is no longer new. And it’s here to stay.
The Story of the Clouds and the Forest
There’s a story one often hears in conversations about systemic transformation that goes like this…
Paying Decision-Makers
Cameron Bray, Learning & Participation Manager at Barking & Dagenham Giving and Anne Shewring, Programme Director at Cripplegate Foundation and Islington Giving , reflect on their experiences with compensating people for their time spent on participatory processes.
A word about language.
The phrase “Participatory Grantmaking” is not perfect. It’s both hard to say and difficult to spell. There are limitations, and there are numerous definitions and overlapping concepts. And yet, it […]
Putting Participation in Participatory Grantmaking
If we are doing Participatory Grantmaking by just inviting people to engage in the work that we do, in the way that we do it, without any wrap-around support we are always just setting them up for failure. The most exciting and rewarding part of my role is working with community members to help them make funding decisions.
Questions for Funders to Reflect on
At the Participatory Grantmaking 101 session I did a reverse Q&A where I asked the attendees a number of questions to reflect and ponder on and I invite you to do the same.
