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BD Giving Notes is a reflection and learning blog written by members of the BD Giving team.
BD Giving Notes – #18 ‘Help! Understanding the Investment World?!’
But why would we want someone sitting in a swanky high-rise office in central London deciding where this money goes. It’s not their money and it’s not even BD Giving’s, it’s for the residents of Barking & Dagenham… Jack Webb As many of you may be aware, BD Giving has
BD Giving Notes – #17 ‘Building A Digital Platform For Community Engagement’
For any organisation that wants to connect with people, online engagement is both important and a potential strain on money and resources…. People being so central to our work, our aim has always been to favour in-person participation when we can. We feel that face-to-face interaction is most suited to
BD Giving Notes – #16 ‘Co-creating Communications with local people’
This week’s Note is written by our communications consultant, Louise Kavanagh. It covers what we learned while planning and delivering communications with and for the local people that make up the Community Steering Group (CSG). Originally the ideas in this blog were intended to guide new colleagues who are taking
BD Giving Notes – #15 ‘Taking Something Really Mundane And Making It Fun’
We’re always talking about what we’re learning at BD Giving. So, I thought learning this new system and learning daily as we try to build it will give us more to contribute to the learning conversations. Kate Harmatz BD Giving has grown a lot since its launch in 2020 but
BD Giving Notes – #14 ‘My Journey So Far’
That realisation, and the pressure of wanting to be a part of a team that doesn’t just talk the talk but does the deed, is one of the things that has made me feel like I must ‘perform’. Adeshola Adejare This Note is about new beginnings, losing and regaining self-worth
BD Giving Notes – #13 ‘The first ‘returns’ on our investment’
Participation takes time and resources but the outcome is larger numbers of people who not only feel able but are able to make change happen in their community. Cameron Bray About a year ago, BD Giving recruited a group of local people to help us design an Investment Policy Investment
BD Giving Notes – #12 ‘Walking into the future backwards’
The question of how we fund the transition while having due regard to the need for healing and reparation to the communities that have been at the sharp end of inequality and exploitation is undoubtedly the most important challenge facing philanthropy today. Géraud de Ville de Goyet It’s been a
BD Giving Note – #11 ‘The value in the process’
How do you determine whether a participatory funding intervention has value? This is a question that participatory grant makers are used to be asked, and one that I have already touched upon in this BDG Note #2 on evaluation. It is a question that is important to unpack because sometimes
BD Giving Notes #10 – What makes our Investment Policy different
The primary objective of the portfolio is to invest the Community Endowment Fund and any financial returns, using a total impact approach, achieving financial, social and environmental impact. Less than a week before the launch of Barking and Dagenham Giving’s new Community-led Investment Policy at the House of Commons on