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Clearly communicate your identity, where the cultural roots of your funding approach lie, and how those inform your strategies and practices.
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Funder Identity & CultureRelated Resources
Decolonizing Wealth, Edgar Villaneuva
Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides.
BookStrength in numbers: Taking a field-level view
Benefits and tensions that come with funding multiple grantees with a shared aim. Funders taking a “field-level view” should provide flexible support to grantees, and clearly articulate the logic behind their grantmaking decisions and strategic goals.
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Source: Ruth Levine, Hewlett FoundationA practical guide to outcome-focused philanthropy
A philanthropic framework that emphasizes rigor, results, learning, and adaptation. This guidebook and set of worksheets helps foundation staff integrate this approach across all stages of philanthropic work.
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Source: Lori Grange, Hewlett FoundationAll happy grantees are alike: They focus on ideas, interactions, and important details
This article discusses three important components of a healthy foundation-grantee relationship: strategic alignment; productive, reciprocal interactions; and clear, efficient administration.
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Source: Ruth Levine, Hewlett FoundationFrom Words to Action A Practical Philanthropic Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Recommendations for evaluating a foundation’s history of inequity, helping grantees incorporate DEI practices operationally, collecting diversity data, and introducing new grantees focused on grassroots, intersectional work.
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Source: Barbara Chow, Grantcraft, Foundation CenterEarning Trust in Sensitive Interviews
Honest conversations about sensitive topics can be challenging. This resource talks about how to consider the threat model and earn trust when the topic or context is sensitive.
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Source: Simply SecureHigh Risk User Research
A video on working with high-risk users or in contexts where security and privacy are critical.
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Source: Simply SecureOn Trust & Transparency: Full Report
Download the full report.
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Source: Simply SecureOn Trust & Transparency: Interview Guide
The interview guide used for the participant interviews during the Partner Perspectives project.
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Source: Simply SecureOn Trust & Transparency: Survey Guide
The survey guide used for the Partner Perspectives project. This was hosted in LimeSurvey an open-source survey tool that can be self-hosted or hosted via Limesurvey’s website.
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Source: Simply Secure