| Other Sector Publications |
Power Dimension |
| Akonadi Foundation, Ecosystem Grantmaking: A Systemic Approach to Supporting Movement Building |
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| Alliance for Justice, Philanthropy Advocacy Playbook |
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| Alliance Magazine, Five reasons to support participatory grantmaking, by Rose Longhurst |
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| Andrus Family Philanthropy Program, Social Justice Philanthropy Toolkit |
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| Annie E. Casey Foundation, Race Matters Toolkit User’s Guide and Racial Equity Impact Assessment |
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| Arabella Advisors: |
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| * A Checklist of Potential Actions: Incorporating DEI in Your Grant-Making Process |
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| * Eliminating Implicit Bias in Grantmaking Practice, by Nancy Chan and Pamela Fischer |
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| * Advocacy Framework |
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| ABFE and Hill-Snowdon Foundation, The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change, by Susan Taylor Batten and Nat Chioke Williams |
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| Board Source, The Importance of Diversity (and Inclusion): A Call to Action for Community Foundations, by Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker and Alice Jacobs |
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| Building Movement Project, Systems Change with an Equity Lens, by Natalie Bambad and Noelia Mann |
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| Center for Effective Philanthropy: |
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| * Barbs, Jabs, and the Roles of Community Foundations, by Phil Buchanan |
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| * Relationships Matter: Program Officers, Grantees, and the Keys to Success |
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| * What Donors Value: How Community Foundations Can Increase Donor Satisfaction, Referrals, and Future Giving |
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| Center for Evaluation Innovation, Resources on advocacy evaluation |
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| CF Leads, Community Leadership Framework, Guide & Workbook |
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| Chronicle of Philanthropy, Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality, by Alex Daniels |
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| Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth and California Tomorrow, Leading By Example: Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Community Foundations |
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| Community Tool Box, Collaborating for Equity and Justice Toolkit |
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| D5 Coalition, various toolkits on diversity, equity and inclusion |
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| DivestInvest, Join the global investor movement |
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| Edgar Villanueva: Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
For more info:
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Money as Medicine, by Edgar Villanueva |
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| Equitable Evaluation, Philanthropy’s Next Step to Equity |
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| Equity in the Center: |
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* Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race
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| * The Role of Senior Leaders in Building a Race Equity Culture, by Karrien Suarez (published on The Bridgespan Group website) |
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| Exponent Philanthropy: |
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| * Small Foundation Leadership: A Portrait Emerges, by Andy Carroll |
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| * Why We Convene Grantees and Convening to Build Capacity, by Elaine Gast Fawcett |
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| Fakequity: |
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| * Fakequity blog |
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| * Talking about Race without Talking about Power is Useless, by Erin Okuno |
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| * Presence isn’t Power – Shifting Power to Create Change, by Erin Okuno |
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| Ford Foundation, Participatory Grantmaking: Has Its Time Come?, by Cynthia M. Gibson |
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| Foundation Center GrantCraft: |
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| * A Statement of Values to Guide Philanthropic Collaboration |
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| * Advocacy Funder Collaboratives |
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| * Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency |
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| * Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together |
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| * From Words to Action: A Practical Philanthropic Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, by Barbara Chow |
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| * Open for Good: Knowledge Sharing to Strengthen Grantmaking, by Clare Nolan, Janet Camarena and Jen Bokoff |
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| * How Community Philanthropy Shifts Power: What Donors Can Do to Help Make That Happen, by Jenny Hodgson and Anna Pond |
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| * Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking, by Jen Bokoff and Cynthia Gibson |
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| Foundation Center Issue Lab, Risk & Philanthropy |
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| Foundation Center: |
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| * GlassPockets |
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| * Open For Good |
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| Foundation Review: |
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| * Foundations Don’t Know What They’re Risking, by Maya Winkelstein and Shelley Whelpton |
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| * Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity, by Gita Gulati-Partee and Maggie Potapchuk |
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| * Social Movements and Philanthropy: How Foundations Can Support Movement Building, by Barbara Masters and Torie Osborn |
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| * The Urgency of Now: Foundations’ Role in Ending Racial Inequity, by Gary L. Cunningham, Marcia L. Avner, and Romilda Justilen |
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| Funders for Justice, Divest/Invest: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities Toolkit |
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| Funders for LGBTQ Issues, Data Collection on sexual orientation and gender identity |
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| Fund The People, Fund the People Toolkit |
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| Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation, Power Impact Team |
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| Funders Committee For Civic Participation and National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Civic Engagement Matters Workshop Toolkit |
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| Funders for Reproductive Equity, Authentic & Equitable Partnerships: A Framework for Building Movements, by Gita Gulati-Partee and Maggie Potapchuk |
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| Georgetown University, Role of Philanthropy in Advancing Racial Equity: Impact Assessment of Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers’ Putting Racism on the Table Series, by Edward Weizenegger |
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| Grantmakers for Effective Organizations: |
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| * Culture Resource Guide |
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| * Do Nothing About Me Without Me: An Action Guide for Engaging Stakeholders |
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| * Great Power, Great Responsibility: Grantmakers’ Role as Conveners (membership required) |
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| * Power Analysis |
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| * Smarter Grantmaking Playbook: Collaborate for Greater Impact |
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| * Systems Grantmaking Resource Guide |
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| * What We Care About: Collaboration and Building Collaboration from the Inside Out (membership required) |
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| Inside Philanthropy, What Love Looks Like in Philanthropy: Shared Power and Transparency, by F. Javier Torres and Leila Tamari |
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| Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, Building Power Across the Impact Investment Field: Key Takeaways from Our Investment Advisor Search |
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| Justice Funders: |
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| * Choir Book: A Framework for Social Justice Philanthropy |
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| * The Path to Liberation – how to walk the talk of equity rather than white supremacy in philanthropy, by Jennifer Near |
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| * For more posts in the “Liberate Philanthropy” series, visit Justice Funders’s Medium page. |
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| Living Cities, C.A.R.E.: Conversations about Racial Equity |
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| Mission Investors Exchange: |
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| * About Impact Investing |
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| * Community Foundation Field Guide to Impact Investing |
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| * Essentials of Impact Investing: A Guide for Small-Staffed Foundations |
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| MP Associates and Open Source Leadership Strategies, Authentic and Equitable Partnerships: A Framework for Building Movements, by Gita Gulati-Partee and Maggie Potapchuk |
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| MP Associates and Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, Transforming Organizational Culture Assessment Tool |
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| MP Associates, Racial Equity Tools, by Maggie Potapchuk |
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| Neighborhood Funders Group, Journey Towards Intersectional Grant-Making, by Mari Ryono |
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| NonprofitAF, Trust-based grantmaking: What it is, and why it’s critical to our sector, by Vu Le |
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| Nonprofit Vote, Voter Engagement Toolkits for Community and Private Foundations |
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| North Star Fund, Change Not Charity: The Story of the Funding Exchange, by Theodora Lurie |
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| Open Road Alliance: |
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| * Open Road Alliance, Risk Management Toolkit |
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| * Open Road Alliance, Navigating Risk in Impact-Focused Philanthropy |
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| PEAK Grantmaking: |
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| * Assessing the How of Grantmaking, by Jessica Bearman |
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| * Does Your Process Invite Applicants In or Keep Them Out?, by Jessica Bearman |
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| * Project Streamline |
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| * Successful Structures: Rethinking the Role of Grants Management |
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| * Weaving Equity Into Grants Management, by Michelle Greanias |
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| Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity: |
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| * Catalytic Change: Lessons Learned from The Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment, in partnership with Race Forward (formerly Applied Research Center) |
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| * Critical Issues Forum, with various articles on tackling structural racism through grantmaking |
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| * Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens, in partnership with GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center |
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| * Reflections from the Inside: Philanthropic Leaders on Racial Justice and Grantmaking, by Rick Cohen |
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| * Transforming Organizational Culture Assessment Tool, in partnership with MP Associates |
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| Philanthropy News Digest, Addressing Racial Equity with an Organizational Change Lens, by Yaro Fong-Olivares |
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| Philanthropy New York, Many Funders are Pursuing Legal Advocacy, Here’s How and Why, by Jared Raynor and Deepti Sood |
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| Putnam Consulting Group: |
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| * The Road to Achieving Equity, by Kris Putnam-Walkerly and Elizabeth Russell |
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| * To Convene or Not? 4 ways to make the most of coming together, by Kris Putnam-Walkerly |
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| Rockefeller Foundation and the Monitor Institute, Gather: The Art and Science of Effective Convening, by Noah Rimland and Anna Muoio |
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| Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy, From Beneficiary to Active Agent: How Youth-Led Grantmaking Benefits Young People, Their Communities, and the Philanthropic Sector., by Sheryl Seller |
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| Strategic Concepts in Organizing an Policy Education, Introduction to Power Analysis and Power Analysis Survey |
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| Surdna Foundation, Social Justice at the Surdna Foundation |
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| The David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Convening with Care, by Bernadette Sangalang |
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| The Giving Practice, Philanthropy’s Reflective Practices: Build What you Bring to the Work |
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| The Lafayette Practice, Who Decides? |
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| The New York Times, The Effect of Intersectionality in the Workplace, by Alina Tugend |
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| The San Francisco Foundation, Advancing Equity: Reimagining the Ways a Community Foundation Delivers on Its Mission |
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| Unicorns Unite: How Nonprofits & Foundations Can Build Epic Partnerships, by Jessamyn Shams-Lau, Jane Leu, Vu Le |
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| Western States Center, Assessing Our Organizations – Racial Justice Assessment Tool |
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| Whitman Institute, Trust-Based Philanthropy |
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