Stories
With diverse stories from practicing Indie Philanthropists, here is your source for inspiration from the front lines of creative grantmaking. Fueled by collaboration and brazen innovation, these protagonists provide you examples of unconventional funding in action to help ignite your own Indie work.
Giving Back, Giving Together
by: Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) - National Giving Circle Network
Giving Circles
Indigenizing Grantmaking: Partnering to Support Effective Native-led Change
by: Common Counsel Foundation
Partnerships
Getting People of Color onto the Supply Side of Philanthropy
by: Community Investment Network
Giving Circles
A Structure that Reflects Our Values
by: Criminal Justice Initiative
Community-Based Decision-Making
Making the world safe for avant-garde art
by: Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Community-Based Decision-Making
Spending Down as an Opportunity to See Impact
by: French American Charitable Trust (FACT)
Spending Down
āKeep Your Coins, I Want Changeā: Grantmaking grounded in Partnerships of Solidarity
by: Grassroots International
Partnerships
Becoming an Authentic Partner for Change
by: International Development Exchange (IDEX)(now Thousand Currents)
Partnerships
Solutions Lab: Nurturing Communities from the Edge
by: Kindle Project - Solutions Laboratory
Funding Start-Ups
The story of 18: Creating a New Vision for Philanthropy
by: Southern Partners Fund
Community-Based Decision-Making
Seeking Connoisseurs of Community
by: Spark Grants - The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
Funding Start-Ups
Helping Young People Improve their Communities: The Bay Area Inspire Awards
by: The Bay Area Inspire Awards
Funding Individuals
Partnership: Building a movement from the ground up
by: The Community Midwifery Fund housed at The Groundswell Fund
Partnerships
A Healing Artist’s Way: introducing flowfunding into my practice of philanthropy
by: The Flow Fund Circle (Marion Weber)
Flow Funding
Rapid responses for courageous activists and resilient communities
by: Urgent Action Fund
Funding Individuals
Giving Back, Giving Together
by: Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) - National Giving Circle Network
by: Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) - National Giving Circle Network
Giving Circles
Indigenizing Grantmaking: Partnering to Support Effective Native-led Change
by: Common Counsel Foundation
by: Common Counsel Foundation
Partnerships
Getting People of Color onto the Supply Side of Philanthropy
by: Community Investment Network
by: Community Investment Network
Giving Circles
A Structure that Reflects Our Values
by: Criminal Justice Initiative
by: Criminal Justice Initiative
Community-Based Decision-Making
Making the world safe for avant-garde art
by: Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
by: Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Community-Based Decision-Making
Spending Down as an Opportunity to See Impact
by: French American Charitable Trust (FACT)
by: French American Charitable Trust (FACT)
Spending Down
āKeep Your Coins, I Want Changeā: Grantmaking grounded in Partnerships of Solidarity
by: Grassroots International
by: Grassroots International
Partnerships
Becoming an Authentic Partner for Change
by: International Development Exchange (IDEX)(now Thousand Currents)
by: International Development Exchange (IDEX)(now Thousand Currents)
Partnerships
Solutions Lab: Nurturing Communities from the Edge
by: Kindle Project - Solutions Laboratory
by: Kindle Project - Solutions Laboratory
Funding Start-Ups
The story of 18: Creating a New Vision for Philanthropy
by: Southern Partners Fund
by: Southern Partners Fund
Community-Based Decision-Making
Seeking Connoisseurs of Community
by: Spark Grants - The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
by: Spark Grants - The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
Funding Start-Ups
Helping Young People Improve their Communities: The Bay Area Inspire Awards
by: The Bay Area Inspire Awards
by: The Bay Area Inspire Awards
Funding Individuals
Partnership: Building a movement from the ground up
by: The Community Midwifery Fund housed at The Groundswell Fund
by: The Community Midwifery Fund housed at The Groundswell Fund
Partnerships
A Healing Artist’s Way: introducing flowfunding into my practice of philanthropy
by: The Flow Fund Circle (Marion Weber)
by: The Flow Fund Circle (Marion Weber)
Flow Funding
Rapid responses for courageous activists and resilient communities
by: Urgent Action Fund
by: Urgent Action Fund
Funding Individuals