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Year

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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?

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

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

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

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

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

Building a Youth Led Fund - Blagrave Trust

https://www.blagravetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CC-Learning-Report-May-22v3.pdf

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

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

Comparing Mini-Publics in the Scottish Parliament

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SPCJComparingMiniPublicsScottishParliament.pdf (whatworksscotland.ac.uk)

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Newcastle University

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

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

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

Eleven Trends in Philanthropy

https://johnsoncenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/11-Trends-for-2021-WEB.pdf

Dorothy A Johnson Centre

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

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

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

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

GrantCraft Resources on PGM

https://grantcraft.org/content-series/participatory-grantmaking/

Grant Craft

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

Hewlett Foundation OE DEI Grants Report

https://hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Hewlett-Foundation-OE-DEI-Grants-Report.pdf

Hewlett Foundation

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

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

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

Letting the Movement Decide: FRIDA grantmaking report

https://youngfeministfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FRIDA-Grantmaking-Report.pdf

Frida

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.

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

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

2017

Participatory Philanthropy: An overview

https://participatorygrantmaking.issuelab.org/resources/33090/33090.pdf

Lani Evans

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

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

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

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

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

Resources – Participatory Grantmakers

https://www.participatorygrantmaking.org/resources/

Participatory Grantmaking Community of Practise

Large repository of best practise guides

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

Trust-Based Philanthropy Resources page

https://www.trustbasedphilanthropy.org/resources

Trust Based Philantropy

Lots of resources (US focus)

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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