Case studies, articles, reports and other tools to enrich your Power Moves journey or help get you there. We’re frequently adding to this list so always check back for updates.
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Learn from these grantmakers effectively leveraging their power to maximize their impact on equity goals.
Delve deeply into diversity, equity, inclusion, risk and other key concepts related to power from leading experts and practitioners in the sector.
Sample questionnaires, worksheets and other materials to facilitate your power journey.
Important terms and concepts used in Power Moves which you can use as a resource.
NCRP has convened a select number of expert philanthropic consultants to begin using Power Moves in their own practices with funders, and an intimate group of grantmaking institutions of all types and sizes that have committed to using Power Moves in the next year.
Through these two learning groups, NCRP will support use of the toolkit, facilitate knowledge sharing, invite insights and feedback on how to improve our tools and resources, and offer opportunities for deeper engagement and sector leadership with NCRP and our network.
Many of these consultants and grantmakers will be featured on our blog and in this year’s Power Moves webinar series! The first two webinars took place in May and July, with two more coming up in September and November. If you are interested in participating in future Power Moves groups, contact us to learn more about how we can support your power journey.
Read Power Moves blog posts, including recaps of the webinars:
Fertilizing the grassroots that confront the COVID-19 crisis
How can funders & donors respond to COVID-19 in an equitable and effective way?
What you resist will persist: Power Moves across the Southeast and Appalachia
How can philanthropy build, share and wield power to create a more equitable world?
Philanthropy must practice vulnerability to catalyze change
3 Things small funders can do to turn racial equity rhetoric into reality
4 Questions to sit with as you learn to let communities lead
Staff are clear and transparent in communication with grantees: The California Endowment
Staff are highly responsive in communication with grantees: New Media Ventures
Beyond the usual suspects: Community feedback for funders
Adapting grantmaking processes: Brooklyn Community Foundation
Power Moves at 1 year: Biggest obstacles and next steps
Power Moves at 1 year: Broad reach, early signs of impact
Philanthropy’s power to disrupt tyranny – starting with itself
Shifting power to shape the future: Is woke a possibility for foundations?
Commitment to innovation: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Long-term operating support: Sandler Foundation
Funding cross-cutting approaches: Groundswell Fund
Is your board ready to advance equity?
Commitment to racial equity: Consumer Health Foundation
2 Place-based equity funders hold up a mirror to examine their power
Recent calls for foundation engagement leave out grantees and communities they serve
2 Years and counting: The Field Foundation’s equity journey
Wield power to yield change: Anecdotes and tips from the field
3 Reasons why grantmakers don’t face power head on
What shifting power in philanthropy looks like from a community’s perspective
How can grantmakers be accountable when they have little oversight?
New season, new opportunities to explore power and equity
Family foundations benefit from diverse boards
What does wielding philanthropic power ethically and courageously look like?
Philanthropic leadership is not about control
Board governance as the ultimate expression of power-sharing
Power in Philanthropy: A new SSIR blog series
Philanthropy experts swap tips on sharing power
BUILDing sustainable social justice partners: Ford Foundation
Bringing community into decision-making: Hyams Foundation
Centering Equity in Education: William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
Calling nonprofits: Avenues for challenging power dynamics with funders
Building community power: A philanthropic strategy and an end goal
Fostering an engaged citizenry: Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Adapting grant processes to advance equity: California Wellness Foundation
The time is now: Building power to achieve health equity
Leading by example: Addressing racial equity through incremental change
Reckoning with racial terrorism and white culture: A family foundation’s journey
Power: One of three provocations for funders to face the ‘fierce urgency of now’
Why examining power and privilege is critical to shifting culture in philanthropy
Announcing Power Moves for funders!
Announcing Power Moves for consultants!
Re-imagining philanthropy’s power structure to address inequities
Are you ready for a vision of philanthropy?
Stepping up for racial healing and reconciliation: Deaconess Foundation
Strengthening neighborhoods through deep community engagement: Brooklyn Community Foundation
Building healthy communities by building community power: The California Endowment
Our Philamplify team can help you on your power journey for equity and justice. Contact us at (202) 387-9177 x31 or powermoves[at]ncrp.org.
“Grantmakers – even the most well-informed and well-intentioned – can still find it challenging to take meaningful action toward more equitable and socially just practices. POWER MOVES offers a deep and practical guide to the intentional and thoughtful wielding and yielding of power. Wherever your organization is in its exploration of power and privilege, this toolkit will help you take the next step.”
– Jessica Bearman
Principal
Bearman Consulting
Power Moves Advisory Committee Member
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Supporting systemic change by funding civic engagement, advocacy and community organizing among marginalized communities
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