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Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation

Publication date: 
11/2008
Grantmakers who fund community organizing say it's the best option when you want to promote civic engagement and support lasting solutions to a community's problems. Yet many funders, concerned about the ability to measure its impact and effectiveness, hesitate to take up community organizing as a strategy. In this guide, funders and organizers discuss what makes community organizing unique and uniquely effective, how to manage grantee relationships over time, understanding the value of process, and the grantmaker's special role in fostering change.
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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools
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Community Development
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Insights from “Resilient Resolve: Supporting Justice in NYC’s Nonprofit Crisis”

Release Date: 
10/24/2024
Inefficient government contracting systems create recurring resource challenges for nonprofits, impacting funders, staff, and the communities they serve, highlighting the need for collective action between nonprofits and philanthropy to drive change.

Bezos Family Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation Award Grants to Four Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

Release Date: 
06/05/2023
The newest grants, amounting to nearly $2.6 million, have been awarded to the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Illinois Chicago, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Virginia.

The Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund Awards over $200k in Social Change Grants

Release Date: 
04/25/2023
The latest grants support timely efforts to advance progressive social change, like an arts program to empower Latino immigrant youth, protect the culture and identity of our Island’s indigenous tribes, and more.

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