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Here is a selection of key reports and blogs about participatory grant making all in one place

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“Sister, brother – or just someone who cares”: How Giving Circles celebrate the power of giving and reclaim what it means to be a donor
Global Fund for Community Foundations
10 Principles of Good Practice for the Intelligent Funder
Civicus and National Lottery Community Fund
14 Case Studies: The Mechanics of Participatory Grantmaking
Candid
A journey towards participatory grantmaking - Part 1 - Guerrilla Foundation
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Guerrila Foundation
A journey towards participatory grantmaking - Part 2 - Guerrilla Foundation
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Guerrila Foundation
A Leap of Faith: Conversations with funders of women's organizations
Oxfam and I.G Advisors
A Philanthropic Experiment
The Roddenberry Foundation, +1 Global Fund
Addressing the Resourcing Problem: Strategic Recommendations on Mechanisms to Increase Resources Going to Civil Society Groups in the Global South
Civicus and Impact Works Associates
Bank of Good Practice | The GGM
Beyond Words: Power and Trust in UK Grant Making
Building a Youth Led Fund - Blagrave Trust
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Characteristics of Foundations - Nesta tool
Nesta
Community Driven Systems Change
Firelight Foundation
Community-Centric Youth Philanthropy: A Case Study of Greater Worcester Foundation's Youth for Community Improvement Program
Comparing Mini-Publics in the Scottish Parliament
Newcastle University
Core grants: the long and winding road to transformative funding
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Laudes Foundation, INTRAC
Deciding Together: Participatory Approaches Highlight A New Way Forward
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Beeck Centre, Disability Rights Fund
Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking
Grant Craft
Donor's Guides to Inclusion and Participation – Disability Rights Fund
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Disability Rights Fund
Eleven Trends in Philanthropy
Dorothy A Johnson Centre
Exec Summary: Racial Justice and Social Transformation: How funders can act
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10 years time
From Beneficiary to Active Agent: How Youth-Led Grantmaking Benefits Young People, Their Communities, and the Philanthropic Sector
Funding Free Knowledge the Wiki Way - Wikimedia Foundation Participatory Grantmaking - Wikisource, the free online library
Wikimedia
Funding place based systemic change
Renaisi, Save the Children
GrantCraft Resources on PGM
Grant Craft
Grassroots Grantmaking: Embedding Participatory Approaches In Funding
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Hannah Paterson
Hewlett Foundation OE DEI Grants Report
Hewlett Foundation
How to fund radically this year: moving promises to action - News & insight - Cambridge Judge Business School
Cambridge Judge Business School
Involving people with lived experience in grantmaking (Decision-Making Panels)
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Corra Foundation
Justice Funders Grantmaking Self Assessment
Justice Funders
Letting the Movement Decide: FRIDA grantmaking report
Frida
Mini-publics: examples and resources
Scottish Government
Participatory Budgeting in 3 Case Studies
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Citizen lab
Participatory Grantmaking - Special Collection
Candid
Participatory Grantmaking: Has its time come?
Ford Foundation, Cynthia Gibson
Participatory Philanthropy: An overview
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Lani Evans
Philanthropy, this is our “Matrix” moment . . . what will you choose? | by Dana Kawaoka-Chen - Justice Funders
Principles for Feminist Funding
Equality Fund
Racial Justice and Social Transformation: How funders can act
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10 years time
Radical Flexibility Fund Seeks Major Shift in International Funding to Local NGOs
Radical Flexibility Fund
Rapid Response Grantmaking is Possible With These 7 Easy Steps
Fluxx
Reflecting a Movement’s Principles in Grantmaking Structure: Evidence on the Benefits of Participation
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Disability Rights Fund
Resonance Framework for Funders - Justice Funders
Justice Funders
Resources – Participatory Grantmakers
Participatory Grantmaking Community of Practise
Scoping study: Women’s movements and the role of funders
Comic Relief
Shifting the Evaluation Paradigm: The Equitable Evaluation Framework (EEF)™ — Equitable Evaluation
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Equitable Evaluation Framework
Six Essential Factors for Systems Change: Lessons from Co-Impact
Co-Impact
The 6 Grantmaking Practices of Trust-Based Philanthropy
Towards a Shared Understanding of Funding Systems Change
Ashoka
Translating equitable principles into transformative funding practices
Translating equitable principles into transformative funding practices
Trust-Based Philanthropy Resources page
Trust Based Philantropy
Who Decides: How Participatory Grantmaking Benefits Donors, Communities and Movements.
Who Decides: How Participatory Grantmaking Benefits Donors, Communities and Movements. | PDF
Lafayette
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