Grantee Inclusion for Community Empowerment
Grantee inclusion can help correct the power imbalance not only between foundations and nonprofits, but also between marginalized communities and the broader power structures that perpetuate inequity.
Foundations - Most Popular
New and innovative ideas for leaders of foundations (more)
Collaboration
Start with a Shared Vision
True grantee-funder partnerships are based on a shared vision of the future. Creating a strategy to achieve that vision requires listening and clearly defining roles.
Collaboration
Pleasantly Surprised by What’s Inside Pandora’s Box
It’s critical to test different approaches to grantee inclusion and to incorporate new learning along the way.
Getting to the Heart of Healthy Funder-Grantee Relationships
Three practices successful social sector partnerships can adopt to improve their alignment and generate better results.
Grantee Inclusion: A Step Towards Mutual Accountability?
Grantee inclusion is not sufficiently powerful to transform grantee-funder relationships, but it might present a vision for a sector that more evenly shares power.
Leadership
The Gift of Grantee Inclusion
Grantee inclusion requires learning, risk-taking, and letting go of cherished behaviors and ways of working to make progress.
How Grantmaking Can Create Adaptive Organizations
Philanthropists should create collaborative relationships with grantees that cultivate critical thinking, learning, and adaptation.
Review
Does Philanthropy Threaten Democracy?
We should be more concerned about foundations’ outsized role in education policy.
The Ripple Effect of Foundation Culture
Foundations’ internal practices and culture ripple out to grantees in meaningful ways, and it directly accelerates or impedes grantees’ effectiveness.
A Movement Without Letters
How funders can listen better, step back, and walk alongside grassroots leadership.