Download the new research paper from Lena Bheeroo (2024 / 2025 #ShiftThePower Fellow and current Possible Now Stitching Fellow): Trust as Tender: Decolonizing Mindsets to Reimagine Power and Accountability in Community Philanthropy.   Over the past year, as a #ShiftThePower Fellow with the GFCF, I have been asking people across our sector one question: what does trust look like in your everyday work? The answers, from community philanthropy practitioners, movement leaders, funders and INGO chief executives, became my Fellowship paper, Trust as Tender: Decolonizing Mindsets to Reimagine Power and Accountability in Community Philanthropy. It took me longer to finish than I expected. World...

Download Chris' new paper, Can Civil Society Be Free at the End of the Value Chain? Money, Moral Power and the Unfreedom of Civil Society.   For years, those of us working in civil society have become very good at asking a particular question: Where will the money come from? It is an understandable question. Perhaps an unavoidable one. When a grant is ending, we look for another donor. When donors leave, we talk about diversification. When international funding becomes uncertain, we turn to domestic resource mobilization. We build fundraising strategies, pursue unrestricted income, explore social enterprise, court individual donors, discuss localization and...