Resources

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This is part of a series of brief stories that feature the work of participatory grantmakers from Grantcraft.

This detailed report examines FRIDA’s particiaptory grantmaking experiences over five years.

A video recording of the first in a series of webinars on participatory grantmaking, which addresses participatory grantmaking basics.

This article addresses the design of this approach to grantmaking and, specifically, whether changing the decision-making process in addition to changing the decisionmakers has an effect on how grants are allocated. It examines the design of two grant review processes — one based on popular voting, the other a more traditional rubric approach — and compares their outcomes to learn whether a more open and discursive process based on popular voting for grantee selection helps to overcome bias against small organizations.

Rose Longhurst discusses participation in philanthropy and her experience of radical approaches to grantmaking with Edge Fund (and others).

This consice aritcle describes five benefits of 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.

This article describes the approach of the Other Foundation in South Africa for achieving systemic change through particiaptory grantmaking.

A video recording of the second in a series of webinars on participatory grantmaking, which addresses power.