The Launch

For the launch of my Fellowship report – Grassroots Grantmaking: Participatory Approaches I’ll be hosting a series of online learning events. You can see the sessions below and sign up.

Participatory Grantmaking 101

You can now watch this session online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_iq16gSAaQ

This session provided an overview of what participatory grant making is (and isn’t) and how it can be used to improve grantmaking with Moukhtar Kocache and Cindy Gibson

Re-distributing Power

You can now watch this session online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5EWNDqPLxo

Participatory grantmaking is built on the principle of re-distributing power. Our speakers shared their thoughts and provided challenge to the sector on how we can do this better.

With Derek Bardowell, Elz Cuya Jones and Swatee Deepak

Evaluating Participatory Grantmaking

You can now watch this session online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0__0e01cTGs

How does power show up in evaluation? How can we centring what is important to communities in our approaches? How can you use participatory methods throughout our evaluation approaches?

With Bonnie Chui, Baljeet Sandhu and Melanie Kawano-Chiu

Systematic Change through Participatory Grantmaking

You can now watch this session online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV3smriTOuE

We will be speaking with staff and decision makers at The Other Foundation to hear how they create systematic change through their work which aims to improve the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people in southern Africa.

With Thandeka Mukuku and Samuel Shapiro

The Future of Participatory Grantmaking

You can now watch this session online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-ySuC9DNc

This session provides on opportunity for us to re-imagine what the future could be for participatory grantmaking, pushing our practice to be bigger and better. With a quick fire round of presentations from a number of cutting edge practitioners.

With – Rose Longhurst, Conor Cross, Cassie Robinson, Mitali Sen, Jessica Horn, Allistair Mallillin, Emily McChrystal, Paul-Gilbert Colletaz, Chrissy Cattle and Ciorsdan Brown

Operationalising Participatory Grantmaking

You can now watch this session online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVSYvlJrOIc

We unpicked what it takes to do participatory grantmaking – the cost, resources and skills as well as what best practice we should be learning from and embedding in our work.

With Yvonne Campbell, Coco Jervis and Khadra Ahden