“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
All about giving circles - relevant to being a ‘co-operative’ funder?
10 Principles of Good Practice for the Intelligent Funder
Civicus and National Lottery Community Fund
Participatory Grantmaking
14 Case Studies: The Mechanics of Participatory Grantmaking
Candid
14 detailed case studies of how they did PGM
2019
Participatory Grantmaking
A journey towards participatory grantmaking - Part 1 - Guerrilla Foundation
Guerrila Foundation
Nice short and honest blog on how they tried to set up fund in participatory way
Participatory Grantmaking
A journey towards participatory grantmaking - Part 2 - Guerrilla Foundation
Guerrila Foundation
Nice short and honest blog on how they tried to set up fund in participatory way
Participatory Grantmaking
A Leap of Faith: Conversations with funders of women's organizations
Oxfam and I.G Advisors
Blog on this report is here 2019
Participatory Grantmaking
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
Civicus and Impact Works Associates
Participatory Grantmaking
Bank of Good Practice | The GGM
Participatory Grantmaking
Beyond Words: Power and Trust in UK Grant Making
Participatory Grantmaking
Building a Youth Led Fund - Blagrave Trust
Characteristics of Foundations - Nesta tool
Nesta
Community Driven Systems Change
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
Youth Participation
Participatory Grantmaking
Comparing Mini-Publics in the Scottish Parliament
Newcastle University
Participatory Grantmaking
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
Participatory Grantmaking
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
Participatory Grantmaking
Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking
Grant Craft
US report that was fairly seminal
2018
Participatory Grantmaking
Donor's Guides to Inclusion and Participation – Disability Rights Fund
Disability Rights Fund
5 or 6 guides on different aspects of PGM and inclusion
Participatory Grantmaking
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
10 years time
2022
From Beneficiary to Active Agent: How Youth-Led Grantmaking Benefits Young People, Their Communities, and the Philanthropic Sector
Participatory Grantmaking
Youth Participation
Funding Free Knowledge the Wiki Way - Wikimedia Foundation Participatory Grantmaking - Wikisource, the free online library
Wikimedia
Participatory Grantmaking
Funding place based systemic change
Renaisi, Save the Children
Participatory Grantmaking
GrantCraft Resources on PGM
Grant Craft
Participatory Grantmaking
Grassroots Grantmaking: Embedding Participatory Approaches In Funding
Hannah Paterson
Very important report for UK sector - very accessibly written report looking at best practice globally
Participatory Grantmaking
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)
Corra Foundation
Participatory Grantmaking
Justice Funders Grantmaking Self Assessment
Justice Funders
Self assessment tool for Funders
Participatory Grantmaking
Letting the Movement Decide: FRIDA grantmaking report
Frida
Participatory Grantmaking
Mini-publics: examples and resources
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 Grantmaking
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
Participatory Grantmaking - Special Collection
Candid
Huge resource depository - mainly global focussed
Participatory Grantmaking
Participatory Grantmaking: Has its time come?
Ford Foundation, Cynthia Gibson
2017
Participatory Grantmaking
Participatory Philanthropy: An overview
Lani Evans
Participatory Grantmaking
Philanthropy, this is our “Matrix” moment . . . what will you choose? | by Dana Kawaoka-Chen - Justice Funders
Participatory Grantmaking
Principles for Feminist Funding
Equality Fund
8 Principals for funders to use; plus guidelines on being participatory
2020
Participatory Grantmaking
Racial Justice and Social Transformation: How funders can act
10 years time
2022
Radical Flexibility Fund Seeks Major Shift in International Funding to Local NGOs
Radical Flexibility Fund
2021
Participatory Grantmaking
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
Participatory Grantmaking
Reflecting a Movement’s Principles in Grantmaking Structure: Evidence on the Benefits of Participation
Disability Rights Fund
Evaluation of PGM at the DRF
2021
Participatory Grantmaking
Resonance Framework for Funders - Justice Funders
Justice Funders
Really nice framework for developing participatory and radical practices
Resources – Participatory Grantmakers
Participatory Grantmaking Community of Practise
Large repository of best practise guides
Participatory Grantmaking
Scoping study: Women’s movements and the role of funders
Comic Relief
2018
Participatory Grantmaking
Shifting the Evaluation Paradigm: The Equitable Evaluation Framework (EEF)™ — Equitable Evaluation
Equitable Evaluation Framework
Six Essential Factors for Systems Change: Lessons from Co-Impact
Co-Impact
2020
The 6 Grantmaking Practices of Trust-Based Philanthropy
Participatory Grantmaking
Towards a Shared Understanding of Funding Systems Change
Ashoka
System change lens
2019
Translating equitable principles into transformative funding practices
Translating equitable principles into transformative funding practices
Trust-Based Philanthropy Resources page
Trust Based Philantropy
Lots of resources (US focus)
Participatory Grantmaking
Who Decides: How Participatory Grantmaking Benefits Donors, Communities and Movements.
Participatory Grantmaking
Who Decides: How Participatory Grantmaking Benefits Donors, Communities and Movements. | PDF
Lafayette
Participatory Grantmaking