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Tamira Benitez Wants to Help DC’s Grassroots Leaders Heal

Two years into her tenure, the head of Diverse City Fund is leaning into healing support for on-the-ground organizers

Ben Wrobel
Washington, DC, Grassroots, healing justice, participatory grantmaking, trust-based philanthropy
Magic Cabinet
Tamira Benitez Wants to Help DC's Grassroots Leaders HealTamira Benitez Wants to Help DC's Grassroots Leaders Heal
Editorial: Ground Game

Moving money to unfamiliar places is hard. That’s why philanthropy leaders are innovating by shifting power to the grassroots

Proximate
Magic Cabinet
Editorial: Ground GameEditorial: Ground Game
Research Roundup: Grassroots Grantmaking

We read six reports about grassroots grantmaking, and pulled out the highlights

Proximate
Magic Cabinet
Research Roundup: Grassroots GrantmakingResearch Roundup: Grassroots Grantmaking
The Citizen Leaders Shaping Climate Policy

The Climate Democracy Accelerator is helping groups around the world build participatory climate projects

Meg Massey
People Powered
The Citizen Leaders Shaping Climate PolicyThe Citizen Leaders Shaping Climate Policy
Is this participatory banking's moment?

A new report makes the case for community power in banking

Meg Massey
New Report Advocates For Participatory BankingNew Report Advocates For Participatory Banking
Democracy
Participatory democracy
Can Participatory Budgeting Revive Trust in Brazil's Democracy?

Months after the attack on the National Congress, President Lula is betting on a new digital platform to give citizens a voice in their democracy

Marcela Martins
Participatory democracy, Brazil, Brasil, participatory budgeting, Latin America
People Powered
Can Participatory Budgeting Revive Trust in Brazil's Democracy?Can Participatory Budgeting Revive Trust in Brazil's Democracy?
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