Join us in experiencing Grassroots Grantmakers’ On the Ground in Atlanta by viewing this photo journal from the gathering. Photos courtesy of Shannon Dixon, Grassroots Grantmakers’ Research Associate. Thanks again to the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and Atlanta’s Place-Based Funders for so generously serving as our hosts for this memorable On the Ground learning [...]
May 5-6, 2011 In partnership with The Denver Foundation/Strengthening Neighborhoods. Click the PowerPoint icon below for a visual recap of our fabulous On the Ground experience in Denver. Thanks to Shannon Dixon, Grassroots Grantmakers’ Research Associate, for her wonderful photography that captured the spirit of the gathering. After OTG Denver report 6-3-2011.Final
Sharing the Learning: Resident-led Grassroots Grants Program A Genuine Democratization & Engagement Strategy A Special Publication from Grassroots Grantmakers Grassroots grants are an effective way to get residents engaged and invested in their own communities. Now a number of funders are taking the idea one step further, turning the grantmaking decisions over to the residents [...]
Sharing the Learning: From Family Giving to a Focus on Place From Family Giving to a Focus on Place Gordon Wean on the Evolution of the Raymond John Wean Foundation The story that Gordon Wean, Chairman of the Raymond John Wean Foundation, shared at Grassroots Grantmakers’ 2009 On the Ground in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley was [...]
Sharing the Learning: The Living Room Meeting The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation’s First Step for Community Engagement A Special Publication from Grassroots Grantmakers One way that Grassroots Grantmakers connects and strengthens funders who are working from a “we begin with residents” perspective is to share innovative practices and learning from their on the ground [...]
Building Resident Power & Capacity for Change An “on the ground” reflection about what it takes for funders to work effective with low-income communities. A report by The Diarist Project for Grassroots Grantmakers This report is a set of reflections that began with conversations among fifty people who gathered in Chicago in September of 2008 [...]
The tricky thing about grassroots grantmaking is that it operates in the nebulous gray space of the funding world. Behind the foundation walls are dollars and cents that add up very neatly, accounts receivable records coming through humming fax machines, and proof of non-profit status reports in piles across cubicle desks. On the streets ofClevelandCity’s [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of attending my first Neighborhood Connections Final Report Party. What is a Final Report Party, you ask? Well, at the close of a grantee’s project year they have the option to complete their final report in several different ways. The first is to write a traditional, [...]
