This webinar is hosted by GEO. Registration required.

Flexible, reliable funding can create a generative ethos for nonprofits and grantmakers by re-imagining the balance of power and developing transformational, rather than transactional, partnerships between nonprofit organizations and grantmakers. 

While the benefits of flexible, reliable funding, such as general operating support and multiyear grants, are well documented, our latest publication seeks to reassert the value of such practices with an updated analysis and examples to illustrate how a commitment to flexible funding can support the sector to be more equitable. Accounting for equity, especially racial equity, is significant for our sector as the persistent gaps in wealth, income and opportunity that exist today continue compounding along racial lines and the disparities are most significant among people of color and Black-led organizations. 

Join us to learn more about moving to action with GEO’s new publication, Centering Equity through Flexible, Reliable Funding, which delves into the history of philanthropy and explores ways to center equity through our funding practices. 

Participants will: 

• Explore principles for centering equity, specifically racial equity, in flexible, reliable funding practices (an approach to grantmaking that allocates unrestricted, multiyear funds to nonprofits and/or communities)  

• Understand historical context of philanthropy and how to make the case for flexible, reliable funding and have the data, tools, and provocations to move toward an equity-centered approach 

• Hear from field leaders about their experience in embedding equity-centered principles within flexible, reliable funding practices and learn what steps you can take to center equity and trust in your efforts 

Speakers

• Shaady Salehi, Executive Director, Trust Based Philanthropy Project

• Yolonda Lavender, Grant Program & Partnerships Director, The Ronda E. Stryker and William D. Johnston Foundation