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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
https://globalfundcommunityfoundations.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GivingCircles_Final.pdf
Global Fund for Community Foundations
All about giving circles - relevant to being a ‘co-operative’ funder?
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10 Principles of Good Practice for the Intelligent Funder
https://www.civicus.org/view/media/10_Principles_of_Good_Practice_for_the_Intelligent_Funder.pdf
Civicus and National Lottery Community Fund
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14 Case Studies: The Mechanics of Participatory Grantmaking
https://learningforfunders.candid.org/content/takeaways/mechanics-of-participatory-grantmaking/
Candid
14 detailed case studies of how they did PGM
2019
A journey towards participatory grantmaking - Part 1 - Guerrilla Foundation
https://guerrillafoundation.org/journey-participatory-grantmaking/
Guerrila Foundation
Nice short and honest blog on how they tried to set up fund in participatory way
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A journey towards participatory grantmaking - Part 2 - Guerrilla Foundation
https://guerrillafoundation.org/participatory-grantmaking-ll/
Guerrila Foundation
Nice short and honest blog on how they tried to set up fund in participatory way
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A Leap of Faith: Conversations with funders of women's organizations
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https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/620823/rr-a-leap-of-faith-conversations-funders-womens-organizations-010719-en.pdf;jsessionid=68A82B7DA98868BF4FD09417706BE958?sequence=1
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Oxfam and I.G Advisors
Blog on this report is here
https://www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/three-ways-to-be-a-more-feminist-philanthropist-recommendations-from-womens-rights-organisations/
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2019
A Philanthropic Experiment
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/philanthropic-experiment-lior-ipp/
The Roddenberry Foundation, +1 Global Fund
New fund with no applications, restrictions, or reporting.
2020
Addressing the Resourcing Problem: Strategic Recommendations on Mechanisms to Increase Resources Going to Civil Society Groups in the Global South
https://www.civicus.org/documents/addressing-the-resourcing-problem_strategic-recommendations.pdf
Civicus and Impact Works Associates
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Bank of Good Practice | The GGM
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https://www.grantgiversmovement.org/bank-of-good-practice
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Beyond Words: Power and Trust in UK Grant Making
https://www.grantgiversmovement.org/_files/ugd/0cd318_949e5ccfddd94b038b1812391a8e3786.pdf
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Building a Youth Led Fund - Blagrave Trust
https://www.blagravetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CC-Learning-Report-May-22v3.pdf
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Characteristics of Foundations - Nesta tool
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https://media.nesta.org.uk/documents/Nesta_Foundation_Scan_Matrix_Final.pdf?_ga=2.253178059.351415727.1574069525-8657342.1574069525
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Nesta
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Community Driven Systems Change
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https://www.firelightfoundation.org/cdsc
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Firelight Foundation
Series of tools for funders on participatory systems change
2021
Community-Centric Youth Philanthropy: A Case Study of Greater Worcester Foundation's Youth for Community Improvement Program
https://heller.brandeis.edu/sillerman/pdfs/opportunity-briefs/community-centric-youth-philanthropy.pdf
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Comparing Mini-Publics in the Scottish Parliament
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SPCJComparingMiniPublicsScottishParliament.pdf (whatworksscotland.ac.uk)
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Newcastle University
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Core grants: the long and winding road to transformative funding
https://www.laudesfoundation.org/en/resources/2021/core-grant-report-intrac-final-version.pdf
Laudes Foundation, INTRAC
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2021
Deciding Together: Participatory Approaches Highlight A New Way Forward
https://medium.com/@beeckcenter/nothing-about-us-without-us-participatory-approaches-highlight-a-new-way-forward-dfce214be4df
Beeck Centre, Disability Rights Fund
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Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking
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https://grantcraft.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/DecidingTogether_Final_20181002.pdf
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Grant Craft
US report that was fairly seminal
2018
Donor's Guides to Inclusion and Participation – Disability Rights Fund
https://disabilityrightsfund.org/our-model/donor-guide-to-inclusion/
Disability Rights Fund
5 or 6 guides on different aspects of PGM and inclusion
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Eleven Trends in Philanthropy
https://johnsoncenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/11-Trends-for-2021-WEB.pdf
Dorothy A Johnson Centre
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2021
Exec Summary: Racial Justice and Social Transformation: How funders can act
https://tenyearstime.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Executive-Summary-Racial-Justice-and-Social-Transformation-.pdf
10 years time
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2022
From Beneficiary to Active Agent: How Youth-Led Grantmaking Benefits Young People, Their Communities, and the Philanthropic Sector
https://heller.brandeis.edu/sillerman/pdfs/opportunity-briefs/youth-led-grantmaking.pdf
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Funding Free Knowledge the Wiki Way - Wikimedia Foundation Participatory Grantmaking - Wikisource, the free online library
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Funding_Free_Knowledge_the_Wiki_Way_-_Wikimedia_Foundation_Participatory_Grantmaking
Wikimedia
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Funding place based systemic change
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https://renaisi.com/2020/08/28/funding-place-based-systemic-change/
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Renaisi, Save the Children
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GrantCraft Resources on PGM
https://grantcraft.org/content-series/participatory-grantmaking/
Grant Craft
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Grassroots Grantmaking: Embedding Participatory Approaches In Funding
https://hannahpatersoncom.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/grassroots-grantmaking-embedding-participatory-approaches-in-funding.pdf
Hannah Paterson
Very important report for UK sector - very accessibly written report looking at best practice globally
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Hewlett Foundation OE DEI Grants Report
https://hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Hewlett-Foundation-OE-DEI-Grants-Report.pdf
Hewlett Foundation
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How to fund radically this year: moving promises to action - News & insight - Cambridge Judge Business School
https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/insight/2022/how-to-fund-radically-this-year/
Cambridge Judge Business School
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Involving people with lived experience in grantmaking (Decision-Making Panels)
https://www.corra.scot/wp-content/uploads/Insight-Briefing-Lived-Experience-in-Grant-making.pdf
Corra Foundation
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Justice Funders Grantmaking Self Assessment
http://justicefunders.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JF-Grantmaking-Self-Assessment.pdf
Justice Funders
Self assessment tool for Funders
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Letting the Movement Decide: FRIDA grantmaking report
https://youngfeministfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FRIDA-Grantmaking-Report.pdf
Frida
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Mini-publics: examples and resources
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Mini-publics: examples and resources | What Works Scotland
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Scottish Government
Scottish Government’s work on mini-publics is part of a range of on-going work focused on participative decision-making, community engagement and governance.
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Participatory Budgeting in 3 Case Studies
https://www.citizenlab.co/blog/civic-engagement/participatory-budgeting/participatory-budgeting-in-3-case-studies
Citizen lab
Participatory budgetting
2021
Participatory Grantmaking - Special Collection
https://participatorygrantmaking.issuelab.org/?publisher=&wikitopic_categories=&keywords=&pubdate_start_year=1&pubdate_end_year=1&sort=&categories=&offset=0&pageSize=12
Candid
Huge resource depository - mainly global focussed
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Participatory Grantmaking: Has its time come?
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https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/3599/participatory_grantmaking-lmv7.pdf
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Ford Foundation, Cynthia Gibson
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2017
Participatory Philanthropy: An overview
https://participatorygrantmaking.issuelab.org/resources/33090/33090.pdf
Lani Evans
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Philanthropy, this is our “Matrix” moment . . . what will you choose? | by Dana Kawaoka-Chen - Justice Funders
https://medium.com/justice-funders/philanthropy-this-is-our-matrix-moment-what-will-you-choose-283cdff53056
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Principles for Feminist Funding
https://equalityfund.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Feminist-Philanthropy-EN.pdf
Equality Fund
8 Principals for funders to use; plus guidelines on being participatory
2020
Racial Justice and Social Transformation: How funders can act
https://tenyearstime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Racial-Justice-and-Social-Transformation-.pdf
10 years time
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2022
Radical Flexibility Fund Seeks Major Shift in International Funding to Local NGOs
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/radical-flexibility-fund-seeks-major-shift-international-/
Radical Flexibility Fund
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2021
Rapid Response Grantmaking is Possible With These 7 Easy Steps
https://blog.fluxx.io/rapid-response-grantmaking-is-possible-with-these-7-easy-steps
Fluxx
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2020
Reflecting a Movement’s Principles in Grantmaking Structure: Evidence on the Benefits of Participation
https://disabilityrightsfund.org/wp-content/uploads/ReflectingMovementsPrinciples_Nov2021_noQ.pdf
Disability Rights Fund
Evaluation of PGM at the DRF
2021
Resonance Framework for Funders - Justice Funders
http://justicefunders.org/resonance/executive-summary/
Justice Funders
Really nice framework for developing participatory and radical practices
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Resources – Participatory Grantmakers
https://www.participatorygrantmaking.org/resources/
Participatory Grantmaking Community of Practise
Large repository of best practise guides
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Scoping study: Women’s movements and the role of funders
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https://assets.ctfassets.net/zsfivwzfgl3t/1f0qWzMjYIdEaUP4m9qMQQ/f15a1030ca970d762712a9216cbd55d3/scoping-study-womens-movements-role-of-funders.pdf
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Comic Relief
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2018
Shifting the Evaluation Paradigm: The Equitable Evaluation Framework (EEF)™ — Equitable Evaluation
https://www.equitableeval.org/blog-main/shifting-the-evaluation-paradigm-the-equitable-evaluation-framework-eef
Equitable Evaluation Framework
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Six Essential Factors for Systems Change: Lessons from Co-Impact
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https://www.co-impact.org/six-essential-factors-for-systems-change-lessons-from-co-impacts-round-3-selection-process/
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Co-Impact
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2020
The 6 Grantmaking Practices of Trust-Based Philanthropy
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/607452f8ad01dc4dd54fc41f/t/6165b42c2543b05926f6910c/1634055212836/6+Grantmaking+Practices+of+TBP_Oct2021.pdf
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Towards a Shared Understanding of Funding Systems Change
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https://www.ashoka.org/en/embracing-complexity
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Ashoka
System change lens
2019
Translating equitable principles into transformative funding practices
https://hewlett.org/translating-equitable-principles-into-transformative-funding-practices-lessons-about-intermediary-grantmaking-in-the-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-field/
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Translating equitable principles into transformative funding practices
https://hewlett.org/translating-equitable-principles-into-transformative-funding-practices-lessons-about-intermediary-grantmaking-in-the-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-field/
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Trust-Based Philanthropy Resources page
https://www.trustbasedphilanthropy.org/resources
Trust Based Philantropy
Lots of resources (US focus)
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Who Decides: How Participatory Grantmaking Benefits Donors, Communities and Movements.
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http://www.thelafayettepractice.com/reports/whodecides/
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Who Decides: How Participatory Grantmaking Benefits Donors, Communities and Movements. | PDF
https://www.scribd.com/document/273386784/Who-Decides-How-Participatory-Grantmaking-Benefits-Donors-Communities-and-Movements
Lafayette
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