Who Chooses? Shifting and Sharing Power with People Most Impacted by Philanthropy’s Decisions

“The power in this approach is that we get to pick our own champions.”

Billy Kinney, one of the Native members of Fund for Shared Insight’s participatory grantmaking group for the “Kolea region” — an area encompassing Alaska and Hawai’i and named for a bird that migrates between the two geographies — shared this reflection at the celebratory session concluding our eight-week process to distribute $1 million to 18 groups

Blog published in Center for Effective Philanthropy.

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