Participatory Grantmaking: How We Failed, and What We’re Learning
<p>The Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective (EJRC) at the Kataly Foundation is a group of nine women of color movement leaders who have a long history of engagement in intersectional environmental and social justice work.</p>
<p>After being established at Kataly in 2020, <a href="https://kataly.medium.com/funding-bipoc-communities-like-we-want-them-to-win-a-conversation-with-the-environmental-justice-40b8ea99b139" rel="noopener">the nine leaders of the EJRC engaged in a participatory process</a> to set funding priorities, grantmaking strategy, and make decisions about grantees. Over the past two years, the Collective has committed $37.4 million to 117 grantees, which includes rapid response grantmaking following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
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