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    Safeguarding & participatory grant-making: An essential guide for funders

    A guide for funders on building safeguarding into participatory grant-making. It walks through planning, delivery and review, with the aim of protecting the community members who make funding decisions from harm. It includes a handout, Questions for decision makers to funders, which decision makers can use to ask whether a funder has planned for their safety. Foundation staff use it when designing or reviewing a participatory process.

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    Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking

    A guide to participatory grantmaking, where funders share funding decisions with the communities they serve. It explains why and how funders around the world do this, drawing on input from participatory grantmakers. It covers models, challenges, lessons learned and good practice for inclusive grantmaking. Funders use it to design a participatory process or to explain the approach to boards and staff.

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