GRANTEE FORUMS
Our virtual Grantee Forums ask current and past grantees to share their expertise on specific topics. We archive these gatherings as resources on issues DC communities face, their efforts, and solutions that may inspire those beyond our city.
ASK THE FUNDER 2 - January 24, 2022
Jan. 2022 webinar for DC Fund grantees to learn from DC-area grant makers on how to access funding for their project or organization, what funding opportunities are available, and how to apply for them.
EXCLUDED WORKERS CAMPAIGN
Hear from Many Languages One Voice, Trabajadores Unidos, Restaurant Opportunities Center-DC, and No Justice No Pride to learn about their campaign to ensure no DC workers are excluded from COVID 19 economic relief.
Diverse City Fund 10 Year Anniversary ForumJustice and Liberation in DC: Diverse City Fund’s Community-led Grantmaking
Join Diverse City Fund and Special Guest Vanessa Daniel, the Founder and Executive Director of Groundswell Fund, and convener of An Open Letter to Philanthropy, in celebration of our 10th anniversary.
ASK THE FUNDER - September 12, 2021
Diverse City Fund grantees heard from and asked questions of staff from 3 local grantmaking organizations
10TH ANNIVERSARY COMMUNITY PARTNERS FORUM
As Diverse City Fund celebrates its 10-year anniversary, we heard from DC community leaders who looked back at changes in the city over the past decade and the impact of those changes on racial and social justice work.
BRIEFING ON DEFUND MPD CAMPAIGN
Hear from Black Swan Academy, Fair Budget Coalition, and BYP100 DC Chapter, to learn about their campaign to support community public safety in DC and reinvest in our communities.
DC FUND PUBLICATIONS
2020 Impact and Assessment Report
We conducted our first endeavor in capturing and assessing our work. This report summarizes our findings and considerations of how to continue to strengthen our structure and model.
RESOURCES
The Diverse City Fund is part of a larger movement dedicated to redistributing wealth and resources through community-led and participatory grantmaking and increasing knowledge about grassroots work.
Change, Not Charity: The Story of the Funding Exchange
The Funding Exchange (FEX) was a national network of social justice foundations created in 1979 by young activists with inherited wealth who had a “change, not charity” vision of how they felt their money could make a difference. Many of those organizations greatly inspired the founding of Diverse City Fund. [...]
An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations
DC Fund joins the nation’s foremost people of color-led public foundations to invite colleagues from private foundations and the individual donor community to participate in a “different way” of philanthropic giving. [...]
Participatory Grantmakers
This organization and its website is home to an international community of practice and hub for sharing resources, knowledge, and promoting non-traditional funding models that work. [...]
Letting Go: How Philanthropists and Impact Investors Can Do More Good By Giving Up Control
This book tells the story of the movement in philanthropy and impact investing to shift decision-making power to activists and social entrepreneurs on the ground. It includes DC Fund’s origin story. [...]
Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking
A publication by GrantCraft that illustrates why and how funders are engaging in practices that shift traditional power dynamics in grantmaking. The guide shares challenges, lessons learned, and best practices for engaging in inclusive grantmaking. [...]
COMMUNITY-LED PHILANTHROPY
To learn more about other community-led grantmaking models for social justice from which we draw inspiration, check out these groups:
- Bread and Roses Community Fund (Pennsylvania)
- Chinook Fund (Colorado)
- Contigo Fund (Florida)
- Crossroads Fund (Illinois)
- Gulf South Rising (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida)
- Haymarket People’s Fund (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont)
- Hawai’i People’s Fund (Hawai’i)
- Liberty Hill Foundation (Los Angeles, California)
- Headwaters Foundation for Justice (Minnesota)
- Maine Initiatives (Maine)
- MRG Foundation (Oregon)
- North Star Fund (New York)
- Social Justice Fund Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming)
- Third Wave Fund (New York)
- Trans Justice Funding Pro
- Community Connections (Detroit, Michigan)
- Transforming Power Fund (Detroit)