This virtual breakout session is part of The Collaboratory 2022, an annual gathering of bold Jewish community visionaries and catalyzers of change. Event registration is required to attend this session. Learn more about eligibility for the event here.

While popular funding models are not necessarily broken, they are often far from ideal. Grantseekers find themselves creating programs to match funder interests, moving through vast amounts of paperwork, and feeling uncertain about how frank they can be in conversations with funders. Funders often wonder “what grantees really think,” how to streamline processes, and how to be of real value beyond making grants. This session will highlight three bold funding models that seek to move beyond the traditional (often stilted) funder/grantee relationship to enable frank conversations, user-friendly processes, and breakthroughs in addressing the problems that both grantmakers and grantseekers want to fix. This session is inspired by GrantED, a joint project of UpStart and the Jewish Funders Network that works to strengthen relationships between grantseekers and grantmakers in the Jewish community.

Speakers

• Shaady Salehi, Executive Director, Trust-Based Philanthropy Project

• Rachel Faulkner, Director of Community Investments, SRE Network

• Paula Morris, Director, Resilience Initiative

• Tamar Frydman, Director of Peer Programs, Jewish Funders Network

Visit The Collaboratory 2022 for more details.