We exist to…
💡 Recognize we are More Than Grant Writers; we hold value AND power within the philanthropic system.
🧑🤝🧑 Convene a participatory space to claim and exercise our power as grant professionals for social justice.
🌈 Extend the movement-building work of Community Centric Fundraising practices into the grants profession.
Principles of Community- Centric Fundraising
1. Fundraising must be grounded in race, equity, and social justice.
2. Individual organizational missions are not as important as the collective community.
3. Nonprofits are generous with and mutually supportive of one another.
4. All who engage in strengthening the community are equally valued, whether volunteer, staff, donor, or board member.
5. Time is valued equally as money.
6. We treat donors as partners, and this means that we are transparent, and occasionally have difficult conversations.
7. We foster a sense of belonging, not othering.
8. We promote the understanding that everyone (donors, staff, funders, board members, volunteers) personally benefits from engaging in the work of social justice – it’s not just charity and compassion.
9. We see the work of social justice as holistic and transformative, not transactional.
10. We recognize that healing and liberation requires a commitment to economic justice.
We Value->
➽ Moving intentionally with agency
➽ Moving from DEI to real systems change*
➽ Connecting and joining with existing efforts rather than creating new ones**
* These are some of the outcomes that represent real systems change to us, in no particular order:
- Disability justice
- Climate justice
- Green economy worldwide
- Ocean ecologies sustained
- Zero hunger
- Permanent housing solutions
- Access to basic human rights for all
** We all need each other; we have roles to play, and it’s time we realized how an interdependent system supports us all! Read Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Ecosystem Map
We are:
➽ An unaffiliated group of individuals and organizations who wish to exercise our power as grant professionals to enact systems change.
➽ Recognizing that our unique position between funders and nonprofits creates opportunity for advocacy.
➽ Committed to leveraging our power, expertise, knowledge, passion, and experience for collective good.
We began:
➽ With community and conversation in the CCF Grant Writers Slack channel. In an effort to “do” rather than just talk, A Village for Good purchased an exhibitor’s table and joined a group of grant professionals to create an opportunity at the GPA Summit for authentic conversation about the role of grant writers in social and economic justice.
You can:
👉 Explore the movements and momentum already underway.
👉 Work to understand your position in an inequitable system.
👉 Talk openly with peers about change.
We can:
👉 Make lasting change within philanthropy and use our unique positions as the vehicle toward social and environmental justice.
👉 Begin to chart a path of change and advocacy.
JOIN
US!