BD Giving Notes #28 – ‘A Pot of Stew’
We are all products of the many socio-political systems we find ourselves caught in and we will, often ignorantly, act in ways that those systems have taught us to act. Cameron Bray This Note is by our Learning and Participation Manager, Cameron Bray. In this Note, they talk about their personal learning about Power (sharing, […]
BD Giving Notes #25 – ‘Money, get away…’
It’s incredibly difficult to ask for what you need and get a no but it’s impossible to get what you need if we’ve made it impossible to ask. Cameron Bray In my last Note, I wrote about how I go about trying to keep people safe in participatory processes and how safety is something with […]
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 building relationships, confidence and collaboration. […]
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 Policy A strategic document that […]
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 few weeks since I wrote […]
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 it is the consequence of […]