Tag: Participatory

Participatory Grantmaking: How We Failed, and What We’re Learning

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. After being established at Kataly in 2020, the nine leaders of the...

Participatory Planning on Reducing Homelessness

The concept of participatory planning is revolutionary, rooting its philosophy in the simple yet profound belief that the people who inhabit a city should have a voice in its development. It’s a form of urban democracy where decision-making is not just the prerogative of urban planners and pol...

Ethics for a Participatory Ecology

What a nice idea, taking care of “Nature” (whatever that is)! It makes us think of cleaning streams, throwing litter into the proper receptacles, recycling at home, buying organic. All good, to be sure, but are they really “taking care of Nature?” These sentiments are so ingr...