Grassroots Grantmaking Through an International Lens: Insights from The Coady Institute's "From Clients to Citizens" Forum
Grassroots Grantmakers, the Coady International Institute, and the Asset-Based Community Development Institute are joining together in February on a topical call hosted by Grassroots Grantmakers. This topical call will feature insights from a by-invitation-only forum that the Coady Institute hosted in July of 2009 that brought practitioners from all over the world together to share insights on working from an "asset based community development" perspective. A forum report that captures trends, persistent challenges, and opportunities that came from the sharing over those two days has just been completed, and we will talk about learnings that are especially relevant for the field of grassroots grantmaking.
The Coady International Institute works with innovative people and organizations to create effective and practical solutions to reduce global poverty and injustice. Coady accomplishes this through leadership education, action partnerships, and initiatives to help young Canadians become active global citizens. The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) is part of a large and growing movement that considers local assets as the primary building blocks of sustainable community development. The institute is involved in four broad types of community building, including building community capacity at the grassroots, partnering on community-based participatory research projects, working with university students to build a new generation of community builders, and delivering resources and publications to community practitioners, scholars, and others in the community building field. Registration is open to everyone who supports people as change-makers in their own communities through funding, technical assistance, training or research. The only cost for participation is the cost of a normal long-distance call, charged to your own telephone when you call in - our way of cost-sharing so we can use topical conference calls to connect the grassroots grantmaking community to promising practices, new resources, and the outstanding work of your peers.
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