Posts by Iara Duarte Peng
Equity in Philanthropy
Dear JustFund Community, It’s happening! There are so many more dynamic conversations in motion today about how to truly center equity in philanthropy. The most recent one I heard was at the PEAK 2022 Grantmaking Conference last week, (if you didn’t attend this year, be on the lookout for next year’s conference!) where the opening speakers, Amoretta Morris, Vu…
Read MoreFunding Historically Excluded Organizations
Dear JustFund Community, JustFunders are off and running in 2022 as they center equity in their grantmaking and work to move more resources to historically excluded organizations. Our team has supported 177 grant cycles for 56 funds and foundations to date, giving more than 6,000 organizations the chance to apply for funding through the nation’s…
Read MoreWhat a year 2021 was…
Dear JustFund Community, I continue to be struck by the exclusionary and expensive nature of traditional philanthropy, which makes funding accessible to only select nonprofits with the right expertise and networks, not to mention prohibitively costly for organizations and funders to seek and distribute funding. We can and we must do better. Our JustFund team…
Read MoreCollaborative Funding
What is Collaborative Funding? Collaborative funding is the practice of grantmakers coming together to learn, share information and knowledge, and sometimes, align resources for organizations supporting a specific goal. When grantmakers join forces around a common purpose, collaborative funding maximizes collective impact by coordinating strategy, learning, and funding in alignment with other grantmakers, while reducing…
Read MoreChallenging Inequity: Collaborative Funding and Participatory Grantmaking in Action
Philanthropy Built on Trust
Dear JustFund Community, JustFund was developed a few years before the revolutionary trust-based philanthropy movement came to be, as a way to operationalize best practices in grantmaking that are rooted in equity and built on trust. The most recent Trust-Based Philanthropy in 4D guide talks about a holistic approach that uses “trust-based values to guide your philanthropy’s…
Read MoreParticipatory Grantmaking
What is Participatory Grantmaking? Participatory grantmaking is the practice of ceding grantmaking power to the very communities affected by funding decisions. In action, participatory grantmaking uplifts these communities by giving them the agency to decide who and what they fund. By centering affected communities in the grantmaking process, participatory grantmaking shifts unequal power dynamics inherent…
Read MoreWe’ve Reached A Major Milestone! 🎉
When we first launched JustFund in 2017, our mission was to simplify grantmaking and build a solution rooted in equity, trust, and transparency. By disrupting old models of giving and offering new ones that are equitable and trust-based, JustFund has fostered a collaborative, values-aligned community of grantmakers and grantseekers. Together, we’ve moved critical funding to under-resourced groups that are often excluded from traditional philanthropy. After four years of moving funds to…
Read MoreNonprofit Grantmaking Platform JustFund Announces Major Milestone of $100M Moved to Chronically Underfunded Communities
JustFund announced a major milestone in its mission for equitable grantmaking.
Read MoreThe Mission to Reset Philanthropy
Dear JustFund Community, At JustFund, we understand the systemic problems in philanthropy that prevent money from moving to the chronically underfunded— like the $141.95 billion in assets sitting untouched in Donor Advised Funds, or the disparities in distribution causing big nonprofits to get bigger, and small nonprofits to get smaller. As I stated in my latest blog, “If we are…
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