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Our Journey:

Building Community-Centered Engagement

Strategy: Evaluated our engagement with impacted communities to highlight successes and identify gaps. Strengthened our organizations' dedication to embedding community perspectives within strategic decision-making.

Key Activities: Developed the final website for the Missouri Advocate Network, which served as the hub for the tools and resources created by the cohort. Designed and piloted an Equity Assessment tool and suggested accountability structure for organizations across the country to use.

Mission & Vision

Centering Community Voices

Strategy: Guided the philanthropic sector to reflect on practices that reinforced systemic racism, promoting structural shifts that elevated community voices in grantmaking.

Key Activity:
The team crafted a set of best practices for a community-centered grantmaking process. The Foundation began implementing these recommendations, showing appreciation for their depth. Access the full document, Trust-Based Philanthropy Considerations for Grantmaking”.

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About Us

Empowering Communities, Redefining Giving

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