JustFund 101: Collaborative 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…

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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…

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JustFund 101: Participatory 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…

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$100 million moved and counting...

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…

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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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