Participatory grantmaking

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Participatory grantmaking encompasses a range of models, methods, challenges, and insights. At its core, this approach to funding cedes decision-making power about grants to the very communities impacted by funding decisions. This special collection gathers the experience and insights of funders who have shifted power and builds on the wisdom explored in the GrantCraft guide "Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources through Participatory Grantmaking".

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One in Seven

June 1, 2018

This Progress Report is an update to the 2013 "One in Seven" Report about Disability Rights Fund (DRF) and  Disability Rights Advocacy Fund (DRAF's) early years. This report lifts up the accomplishments of the past ten years, celebrates the voices of persons with disabilities, and offers a pathway towards building the future together.

Nothing Without Us

December 31, 2015

A decade after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations, the global disability movement is leading radical change. A decade after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the United Nations, the global disability movement is leading radical change. Read — in this annual report — in stories about us and our grantees — about the escalating call to action from the world's one billion people with disabilities to expand global movements addressing climate change, gender inequality, human rights, and development.

Supporting Inclusive Movements: Funding the Rights of Women with Disabilities

November 1, 2015

Leading advocates and women's rights donors agree that much more can and needs to be done to include women with disabilities in women's rights activism, agenda setting, and funding. This brief explores funding at the intersection of women's rights and disability rights and offers steps donors can take to ensure that their grantmaking is more inclusive of women with disabilities and to support this emerging movement.