Democratizing Social Impact through Participatory Grantmaking

Sep
6:00pm
Democratizing Social Impact through Participatory Grantmaking

By Social Impact World
Key takeaways attendees will walk away with from this webinar:
Practical tools for building a participatory grantmaking model within your own company or organization
A clear understanding of the impact of this type of program versus traditional grantmaking within a corporate environment for both community partners and employees
Learnings from a real-world case study to advise companies considering this model on the challenges and opportunities of this philanthropic model
Overview
A company decides to provide grants to communities, but what is their process for doing so? Whose voice do we center and prioritize in the decision-making process? A participatory grantmaking model contends with these questions - calling in the voices and experiences of the communities you hope to impact, reminding those constituents that they deserve to be centered in the decisions concerning the allocation of money and resources which directly impact them. 

The participatory grantmaking framework is an emerging field in philanthropy that has led to an increase in funders exploring how to incorporate this practice into their funding models, however, it is not a form of grantmaking that is often seen in the corporate sector. 

Based on the successful 2021 launch of a new participatory grantmaking program of Mailchimp’s Corporate Citizenship team, The Forward Project awarded over $750,000 in grants to further the visions of social entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations in the Atlanta area. The project was designed and implemented in collaboration with Mailchimp (a subsidiary of Intuit), and consulting firms Purpose Possible and Indwell Collective. Inspired by the success of this project, Susannah Darrow, of Purpose Possible, and Tiffany Curtis, of Indwell Collaborative, will provide an in-depth look at how they worked with the corporate social responsibility team to design, implement and evaluate this program over the past two years. We will share learnings from the process exploring how the impact for grantees differs from more traditional grantmaking programs.

Speakers

Tiffany Curtis
The founder of Indwell Collaborative, Tiffany is a social healing practitioner with over 13 years of experience facilitating and designing programs for social change. Having developed programs that have reached over 20,000 people, she seeks to evoke a healing ethos across sectors, institutions, and relationships. She supplements her work through the healing arts – receiving her certifications as a professional coach, full-spectrum doula, and 200-hour yoga teacher; and as a student of subtle body energy through Usui Reiki. Tiffany received her BA in Communication from DePauw University and MS in Cultural Foundations of Education with a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Women's and Gender Studies from Syracuse University.

Susannah Darrow
Susannah Darrow is the Co-Founder of Purpose Possible. Susannah has worked with mission-based organizations across the Southeast for over 15 years to support organizational strategy, program development, and fundraising for nonprofit and for-profit companies across sectors.  Susannah  currently serves as the District 2 Arts and Culture Advisor to Atlanta  City Councilmember Amir Farokhi. Susannah served as the Executive  Director of ArtsATL and was the founding Executive Director of BURNAWAY,  a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing critical coverage  and dialogue about arts in the Southeast. She was a member of LEAD Atlanta in 2016, participated in the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Institute (2016), and the Arts Leaders of Metro Atlanta. She has been selected as a 40 Under 40 by Atlanta Business Chronicle (2021), Georgia State University (2019), and Georgia Trend Magazine (2014) and was honored as a top 30 nonprofit leader under age 30 by Georgia Center for Nonprofits (2013).
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