Recent years have revealed the extent to which traditional grant-making practice - lengthy applications, short-term timeframes, stringent governance requirements etc - tends to reinforce work that sits within the parameters of the existing system. This session explores best and emerging grantmaking practices that seek to address these issues.

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Chair:

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Rose Longhurst

Open Society Foundations + FundAction, Edge Fund

Speakers:

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Imandeep Kaur

Civic Square

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Pia Mancini

Open Collective

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Dr. Sadaf Shallwani

Firelight Foundation

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Annette Dhami

****OrgDev, Organising & Governance, Dark Matter Labs

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Eirini Malliaraki, Deep Science Ventures

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Louise Armstrong

Stewarding Loss

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Kris Archie

The Circle

For more information about our speakers, please check out our Full Speakers List


An orientation narrative - what is this session and why have we included it?

There are a growing number of funding practices - community-led grantmaking, giving circles, flow-funding, DAO’s, collective intelligence, asset and land transfers back to communities, and other means of reparative, restorative, participatory funding - that are helping build the required infrastructure and governance practices needed to move towards a different future. A lot of those practices are already visible in other panels at the conference, so in this session we want to showcase some of the practices that are less visible but just as important, especially those that emphasise the weaving together of lived, learned and practice experience, that see experimentation as vital and that make use of the affordances of data and technology, but in balance with indigenous wisdom and embodied knowledge.


Work from our panelists -

Imandeep’s work