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Sharing the Learning: From Family Giving to a Focus on Place

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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 so inspiring that we decided that it needed to be shared with [...]

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A Legacy of Leadership and Support for Grassroots Grantmaking

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A Retrospective Assessment of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s Community Foundations and Neighborhoods Small Grants Program Prepared by Tom Burns & Laura Downs for Grassroots Grantmakers With support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation For funders interested in healthy neighborhood where residents are bringing their energy and creativity to solving local problems and influencing larger, community-wide [...]

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A Legacy of Leadership and Support for Grassroots Grantmaking (Executive Summary)

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A Retrospective Assessment of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s Community Foundations and Neighborhoods Small Grants Program Prepared by Tom Burns & Laura Downs for Grassroots Grantmakers With support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

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The Promise and Opportunity of Neighborhood Democracy: Lessons from the Intersection of Government and Community

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A report on the “Governance at the Neighborhood Level” meeting organized by Grassroots Grantmakers and  the Deliberative Democracy Consortium,with assistance from the National League of Cities and NeighborWorks America. by Matt Leighninger The Promise and Challenge of Neighborhood Democracy: Lessons from the Intersection of Government and Community.grew out a meeting that Grassroots Grantmakers and the [...]

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Building Resident Power & Capacity for Change

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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 2009 This report is a set of reflections that began with conversations among fifty people who gathered in Chicago in September of 2008 for Grassroots Grantmakers first “on the ground” [...]

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Sharing the Learning: The Living Room Meeting

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By: Kristin Senty 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 work. This is our premiere [...]

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Sharing the Learning: Fighting Foreclosure – What You Can Do in Your Neighborhood

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A Special Publication from Grassroots Grantmakers and Neighborhood Connections Some cities like Cleveland have dealt with the foreclosure problem long before it became a national epidemic.  Residents, public officials, key organizations and institutions found new ways to work together to counteract the negative impact.  Individuals at the grassroots level have played an essential role, lacing [...]

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Embedded Funders and Community Change: Profiles

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By: Brown, Chaskin, Richman & Weber Embedded Funders and Community Change: Profiles, published by Chapin Hall Center for  Children in 2006, provides descriptions of twelve foundations included in a second cohort of funders.

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Sharing the Learning: Resident-led Grassroots Grants Program

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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 who live and work in the community [...]

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