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🌟 We’re thrilled to share a valuable new resource from ECFG member Global Fund for Children! 🌟 “Trust in Action: The Bridge Between Grantmakers and the Grassroots” is crafted by grassroots leaders worldwide, highlighting the funding struggles faced by community-based organizations (CBOs) and presenting solutions centered on trust and flexible funding. Grassroots organizations are a driving force for transformation, intimately understanding the unique challenges and opportunities within their communities. However, traditional funding models leave these groups with limited access to resources and impose rigid restrictions, hindering their ability to address community needs and foster meaningful change. This resource serves as a call to action for funders and international development organizations to adopt more equitable funding practices. Key insights include: ➡ Trusting grassroots leadership: Recognizing the value of lived experiences and expertise beyond traditional organizational structures. ➡ Trusting community funding priorities: Advocating for flexible funding that empowers CBOs to respond to their unique community needs. ➡ Trusting community capacity: Ensuring capacity development efforts are tailored to the specific needs of CBOs, driven by community voices. ➡ Trusting community learning: Encouraging long-term partnerships and collaborative approaches that prioritize iterative learning over rigid evaluation systems. Each of these insights begins with the word TRUST—a key principle for creating meaningful change in philanthropy. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eGytuy-D #GlobalFundForChildren #TrustInAction #GrassrootsLeadership #FlexibleFunding #Philanthropy #CommunityChange

Explore how place-based partnerships are becoming a driving force in the fight for equity. Our latest article on Inside Philanthropy delves into the significance of these localized collaborations and their impact on community development and social justice. Jennifer Splansky Juster, Monique Miles and Cindy Santos, Guest Contributors report: The role of place-based partnerships in advancing equity Successful examples and case studies Strategies for building effective local collaborations Join the discussion on how localized efforts can drive meaningful change in communities. Tagging Fearless Fund Collective Impact Forum The Aspen Institute Los Angeles Opportunity Youth Collaborative #PlaceBasedPartnerships #Equity #CommunityDevelopment #SocialJustice #InsidePhilanthropy #CommunityDriven #LocalCollaboration #SystemicChange #EquitableDevelopment #CommunityEmpowerment #Resilience #SustainableProgress #Philanthropy

In #publichealth, there has been much emphasis on focusing on individuals-- education and people-based strategies. However, #placebased strategies provide a complementary approach that influences behaviors in the context of where people are. Therefore, place-based partnerships leverage resources that not only understand the context of where people are, but can identify gaps and opportunities that bridge change toward #equity.

Facing threats to racial equity work, the Borealis REACH Fund remains steadfast in its mission. Discover how this fund continues its consistent, steady approach to advancing racial equity in our latest article on Inside Philanthropy. Dawn Wolfe reports: Borealis REACH Fund’s strategies for sustaining racial equity efforts Key initiatives and their impact on communities Insights from fund leaders and beneficiaries Join the conversation! How can we support sustained efforts in racial equity? Tagging Borealis Philanthropy Ford Foundation The David and Lucile Packard Foundation NoVo Foundation #RacialEquity #SocialJustice #SteadyApproach #BorealisREACHFund #BorealisReachFund #SocialJustice #SystemicRacism #InclusivePolicies #MarginalizedCommunities #EquityWork #ConsistentApproach #Empowerment #LastingChange #Philanthropy

"Over the past decade and particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckoning of 2020, a growing number of foundations have acknowledged the importance of listening and have even made formal commitments to listening, but evidence suggests a persistent gap between intention and practice. Additional resources are needed to help foundations understand and implement listening practices such as systematic feedback loops, participatory processes, and other ways of listening well that can help shift power to the people and communities at the heart of their work. This is an important topic for philanthropy because listening can help foundations address and shift the historical power imbalance between institutions with financial resources and the organizations, communities, and individuals who seek access to those resources in order to address community needs and drive social change." If you have insights, experience, or research around the topic of funder listening for equity, consider submitting an abstract to The Foundation Review for publication in 2025. #equity #philanthropy #listening # learning https://lnkd.in/emj7Um3s

A central part of Outright International's theory of change is supporting the global, grassroots LGBTIQ movement. Mobilizing new funding to our partners is one critical aspect of this support, because 1) queer activism in the Global South and East is under attack and drastically underfunded, 2) there's a huge opportunity to radically accelerate social and legal change to improve the lives of LGBTIQ people, and 3) they've asked us! Here are some great insights from leaders of community and equity-focused philanthropic intermediary funds in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “In the social justice movement space, community ‘intermediary funds’ help allocate funding to people-powered activism...We exist because movements have asked us to help move money more effectively...The work we fund is led by those disproportionately impacted by systemic oppression...and our leadership reflects the communities we serve and/or decades of experience doing values-aligned work. We know that resourcing movements means going above and beyond cutting a check. Our organizations are well positioned to provide this support because our north stars are the movements we were born from. Larger funders, which often do not have the infrastructure and relationships to reach grassroots organizations, can invest in intermediary funds to learn from and partner with local, regional, and global movements. We serve an important role in ensuring dollars move to the furthest reaches of our complex global movement ecosystem.”

"Philanthropy is crucial to sustaining and strengthening democracy, now more than ever. Trust-based philanthropy, like democracy, happens through practice. Both require commitment, rigor, and adaptivity...if funders understand our collective goal to be strengthening and sustaining democracy, trust-based philanthropy has a major role to play." -Pia Infante, Senior Fellow, Trust-Based Philanthropy Project. Read the full article below to learn how philanthropic leaders and institutions are exercising democratic, trust-based practices that could contribute to a more multiracial democracy in our time💡. #democracy #trustbasedphilanthropy #TheFutureofPhilanthropyIsTrustBased

Six Questions for the Co-Directors of Third Wave Fund: Dive into our engaging conversation with Morgan “Mo” Willis and Mars Marshall, exploring their leadership and vision for social justice philanthropy. Discover their insights and the impact of Third Wave Fund's initiatives in our latest article on Inside Philanthropy. 🔍 #MichelleDominguez Reports: Willis and Marshall's leadership journey Key initiatives and focus areas of Third Wave Fund Insights on advancing social justice through philanthropy Join the conversation! What are your thoughts on the role of Third Wave Fund in promoting social justice? #ThirdWaveFund #GenderJustice #YouthActivism #Intersectionality #CommunityGrantmaking #InclusivePhilanthropy #SystemicChange #MarginalizedCommunities #LeadershipDevelopment #EquitablePractices

The whole space of trust based philanthropy is always evolving. I think a lot more funders are looking at the longevity of their funding and changing some of the metrics, applying deeper understanding that if you're tackling systems of injustice that have been developed and reinforced over hundreds of years, a three-year or five-year intervention will only make limited progress. To be able to change cultural, social, religious norms will take time and patience. Grassroots groups and movements need to be sustained over periods of time in order for that change to actually happen. https://lnkd.in/ghx39J5e

A recent Lender Center for Social Justice symposium in Atlanta brought scholars and community leaders together to discuss how targeted philanthropy can help bridge racial wealth disparities and lead to the practical implementation of economic equity. Learn more! #RacialWealthGap #philanthropy #giving #community #SyracuseUniversity