Posts by Iara Duarte Peng

Welcome to JustFund’s People Behind the Platform series, where we introduce our incredible team! Today, we are thrilled to introduce Katie Branch, JustFund’s Director of Customer Experience. Before joining the JustFund team in October 2022, I spent the last decade working in philanthropy. I planned national galas at the National WWII Museum, raised funds for…

Dear JustFund Community, Collaborative funds allow multiple donors to pool their resources and make a bigger impact. Funds like Decolonizing Wealth, Emergent Fund, Constellations Culture Change Fund, and dozens of other collaboratives run their grant cycles using the JustFund Common ApplicationTM, saving their applicants valuable time, giving their applicants access to additional funding opportunities, and centering equity and…

Welcome to JustFund’s People Behind the Platform series, where we introduce our incredible team! Today, we are thrilled to introduce Dianne Perret, JustFund’s Client Success Manager. Before joining the team at JustFund, I spent the last eight years working for a variety of different nonprofit organizations. From the time I was a teenager in high…

Dear JustFund Community, The JustFund Common ApplicationTM consists of two parts: 1) a common profile that applicants fill out once; and 2) any specific questions and attachments requested by each funder (up to 3 each). JustFund is undergoing a beautiful redesign to make the application even easier to navigate for applicants and to provide useful information…

Welcome to JustFund’s People Behind the Platform series, where we introduce our incredible team! Today, we are thrilled to introduce Rose Stump, JustFund’s Operations Manager. “Before joining this incredible JustFund team, I spent 8 years organizing in various justice spaces in the south. I cut my teeth organizing with the Farmworker Movement in Florida and…

Dear JustFund Community, Our flagship grantmaking solution: the JustFund Common Application™ is the nation’s first — and only — common application platform  to move money quickly. Rather than requiring organizations to complete dozens of separate and time-consuming grant proposals, our common application platform saves grantseekers valuable time and allows them to apply to multiple funding opportunities…

Dear JustFund Community, I’ve been reflecting on Women’s History Month and thinking about the many women who broke barriers, in particular in the field of technology. As a female tech founder of color, I am acutely aware that women – particularly women of color — continue to be underrepresented in this field. While we have a long…

“We’ve crossed 200 million dollars moved!” If that isn’t the best message to receive from the team, I don’t know what is.   When I launched JustFund in 2017, I had one singular vision: to simplify grantmaking and figure out a seamless way to move money in service of racial and social equity.  Today, we’ve reached…

Dear JustFund Community, When the Stanford Social Innovation Review released their article on Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding in 2020, it reported what many of us have been experiencing our entire careers as leaders of color: “racial bias — both personal and institutional, conscious and unconscious — creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process.…