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A Novel Way to Predict the Weather in Malawi Can Malawi's participatory weather forecasting project change the game in a changing climate?Rabson Kondowe

Food as Medicine? A Vermont Foodbank Tries Culturally-Relevant Food

Grassroots Grantmaking

Feature

A Vermont Foodbank Tries Culturally-Relevant Food Vermont's largest food bank is responding to the state's growing diversity by offering culturally-relevant food Ben Wrobel

Nuts & Bolts

Analysis

A New Toolkit for Participatory Investing A new playbook from Common Future helps foundations drive participation in investing Meg Massey

Participatory Grantmaking Changed My Mind About Sex Work

Grassroots Grantmaking

Perspective

Participatory Grantmaking Changed My Mind About Sex Work A personal essay about the power of connection – and the possibility of growth Rose Longhurst

The Kamaʻāina Creatives Tackling Climate Change

Nuts & Bolts

Feature

The Kamaʻāina Creatives Tackling Climate Change A new, experimental venture studio designed to invest in Hawai‘i creative talent Meg Massey

Citizen Science

Analysis

Can Citizen Science Drive the Sustainable Development Goals?A new collection of articles demonstrates the potential of citizen science to measure and drive the SDGs Proximate

Putting Patients at the Heart of Medical Research

Citizen Science

Feature

Putting Patients at the Heart of Medical Research A model for patient-centered care Jess Rimington and Joanna L. Cea

Slowly But Surely, Foundations Are Changing How They Invest Their Endowments

Proximate Investing

Feature

Slowly But Surely, Foundations Are Changing How They Invest Their Endowments As grantees ask hard questions about where their grant money comes from, more donors are trusting values-aligned asset managers with their endowments Oscar Perry Abello

Repairing Development • Issue 4 What Happened to Resourcefulness?

Repairing Development Newsletter

Newsletter

What Happened to Resourcefulness?Too often there's a narrative that people are operating in deficiency. But in fact, they are demonstrating resourcefulness Isabelle Clérié

Repairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale Ideas

Repairing Development Newsletter

Newsletter

Repairing Development • Issue 3 Shiny Resumes, Stale Ideas To development practitioners – please actively unlearn what you think you know about the Global Majority Isabelle Clérié

Repairing Development • Issue 2 We Need More Anthropologists in Development

Repairing Development Newsletter

Newsletter

We Need More Anthropologists in Development As we talk about community-led anything, there is an urgency to build anthropological skill sets like participant observation and thick description Isabelle Clérié

Repairing Development • Issue 1 USAID’s Freeze and the Future of Aid

Repairing Development Newsletter

Newsletter

USAID’s Freeze and the Future of Aid Welcome to a new newsletter for Proximate, where I reflect on the possibilities for a world without traditional international aid.Isabelle Clérié

Proximate Brasil

Editor's Note

Our Vision for Proximate Brasil An exploration of participatory problem-solving in Brazil, by Brazilians Joana Ribeiro Mortari

Proximate is an independent media platform covering movements for participatory problem-solving. We look at the news through the lens of money: how it’s given away, how it’s invested, and how it’s distributed by government.
We are a fiscally sponsored project of Movement Strategy Center.

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