Funder community
Blog
Funders, Your Grant Application Process May Be Perpetuating Inequity
Realize how the zeitgeist of philanthropy has started shifting more and more toward equity, diversity, and inclusion, though the processes have not necessarily shifted simultaneously.
Nonprofit AF
Website
CCF (Community-Centric Fundraising)
Explore how to ground your organization's fundraising in values of equity and social justice.
CCF (Community-Centric Fundraising)
Report
State of the Work: Tackling the Tough Challenges to Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (4th Annual Report)
Page 25 of this report reviews six general types of actions and tools that support diversity, equity, and inclusion.
D5 Coalition
Tools & Resources
Communication Tools
Effectively communicate the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion to your colleagues and peers.
D5 Coalition
Tools & Resources
Resource Database
Explore practical tools and resources developed to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in philanthropy.
D5 Coalition
Tools & Resources
DEI Self-Assessment
Identify areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion work that your foundation is already engaged in and opportunities for growth.
D5 Coalition
Report
Policies, Practices, and Programs for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Review the most effective policies, practices, and programs to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
D5 Coalition
Guide
Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens
Explore how a racial equity lens can help you scan your field or community, cultivate new leaders, encourage creative approaches, get people talking, and nourish change inside your own foundation.
Grantcraft
Article
How Grantmaking Can Create Adaptive Organizations
Discover an approach where philanthropists create collaborative relationships with grantees to cultivate critical thinking, learning, and adaptation, rather than giving grants in return for prescribed programs and outcomes.
Stanform Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
Report
Smashing Silos in Philanthropy: Multi-Issue Advocacy and Organizing for Real Results
Encourage foundations to not only fund advocacy and organizing in their chosen fields of endeavor but also nurture the ecosystem of the grassroots.
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
Blog
Sometimes the best thing we donors can do to advance social justice is to just write the check and get out of the way
A cheeky take on the role that should be played by donors and foundations in their relationship with nonprofit organizations.
Nonprofit AF
Media
Let's Make Fundraising Less Racist! - Community-Centric Fundraising 2020 Launch
Learn how to ground your fundraising in race, equity and social justice to move it toward a community-centric one.
Community-Centric Fundraising
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
Explore the interviews, frameworks, templates and articles created and published by Up With Community.
GROW COMMUNITY
Giving thanks: We share these resources in gratitude to all of our teachers and with appreciation for the value they have brought us. The field guide is a living resource that we are consistently adding to. We receive no payment or kickbacks for sharing. Access and use of these resources should be done at one’s own discretion. If you see a resource you like, we encourage you to reach out to the author.
Have a resource to add? We are always looking to expand the resources we can share. If you have a tool/resource/link you would like to share with UWC and its partners, please email us: research@upwithcommunity.org.
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