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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Not sure if participatory grantmaking is for you or maybe you need a refresher on what it is? Is this you?

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. They are created with the biases and worldviews of those who developed them.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

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The report also advocates that the sector embraces three main tenets: be an enabler, walk the talk, and think about and create the future. Community Fund: A Participatory Grantmaking Case Study , by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative   This case study offers a first-hand look at fostering community collaboration in philanthropy.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Why Would a Grantmaker Choose a Participatory Grantmaking Approach? So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice? Those at the top decide.

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The community approach to problem solving

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Participatory grantmaking [i] is no longer new. To be clear, participatory grantmaking has never been new. They have created a community, which itself has been a labor of love. . We collaborated on this work with practitioners across the global participatory grantmaking community. And it’s here to stay. .

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

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Limitations exist because PM has created tensions, instead of bridges, between funders and nonprofit service providers. To harness the full potential of performance measurement, funders and nonprofits must join together to co-create mutually beneficial methods and metrics. Actively evaluate PM processes and metrics.

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Great Participatory Processes are Open, Discoverable, and Unequal

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Dan writes about the explicit and implied "rules" of participation for musicians that create great music both onstage and for the crowd. When I think about what makes for great participatory experiences in both poetry open mics and jazz jams, it comes down to three basic things: The process is open. The process is discoverable.