Who Defines Success? An Annotated Bibliography on Community-Centered Measurement and Evaluation

📕 The Center for Grantmaking Research has curated a new annotated bibliography on community-centered measurement and evaluation, with sources compiled by Dr. Dana Doan, Dr. Nicole Marwell, and Dr. Jennifer Mosley. The repository brings together practitioner resources and academic scholarship exploring how communities can play a stronger role in defining success, generating evidence, and interpreting outcomes. […]

Curated Knowledge Repository on Trust-Based and Unrestricted Funding: An Annotated Resource Base for Funders and Practitioners

To support ongoing conversations on funding practices, the Center for Grantmaking Research has compiled a curated knowledge repository bringing together 55 essays, peer-reviewed articles, and media resources on trust-based grantmaking, unrestricted funding, participatory philanthropy, and learning-oriented accountability. ❇️  Interested? Click here to access the PDF.  ❇️

Rethinking Philanthropy: Participatory Grantmaking in Practice – Reports (PDF)

❇️ We designed a brochure to provide an overview of trust-based philanthropy for both funders and fundraising organizations. ❇️  📄 See here the PDF version for funders | for fundraising organizations 🔗 Read here an interview with Pamala Wiepking (Center of Grantmaking Research) and Eline Krins (Kansfonds) about their research (in Dutch)

Participatory Grantmaking Community

From website:  Who Are We? Founded in March 2020 as an informal group of a dozen people, the Participatory Grantmaking Community has grown to more than 1,400 people in 73 different countries. Our members represent a wide range of actors within philanthropy and the social sector. Read the article online here

Urban Institute – Participatory Grantmaking Aims to Dismantle Power Imbalances

Gaynair, Gillian (2021). ‘Participatory Grantmaking Aims to Dismantle Power Imbalances between Funders and the Communities They Serve’. Urban Wire, May 12. From the article: “Although the practice — called participatory grantmaking – is not new, the evidence surrounding it is. We don’t know much about what motivates foundations to give community members a voice in […]

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