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.
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”.
The Shift Power pillar team aimed to establish a vision for philanthropy that redistributed power to impacted communities and the organizations that support them. This included implementing strategies that allowed community voices to play a central role in decision-making.
The pillar team worked with contractors to develop a final website that housed the story of the Missouri Advocate Network and made all developed resources available to any interested organizations.
The team developed and piloted quarterly DEIB discussions with network members to monitor progress, identify challenges, and provide opportunities for collaboration. This structure helped ensure that DEIB remained a focus in each organization’s ongoing development.
The team regularly assessed how they interacted with people from impacted communities to highlight successes and pinpoint areas for improvement. Their focus on equity guided their strategies and supported a more community-focused organizational approach.
The team worked to influence the philanthropic sector by identifying practices that reinforced systemic racism. They provided guidance on structural changes to help shift the grantmaking process toward authentically centering community voices.