This learning circle is focused on exploring the intersection between grassroots grantmaking and aging - learning more about how to advance work that brings older people in from the margins in community and opens up new pathways for older adults to contribute their passion, energy and skills, as well as how to connect the resident-centered work of grassroots grantmaking to work that is more specifically focused on aging. Grassroots Grantmakers is working with Grantmakers in Aging's EngAGEment initiative on this learning circle.
This learning circle kicked off their work together in July 2011, and will connect via conference call every other month for two years. A face to face convening will be held in October 2011, hosted by the Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center in Indianapolis.
We are pleased to welcome the Points of Light Institute to our family of contributing members and the affiliates that are offering mini-grants to their local communities through a special POL initiative as members of a new learning circle.
Learning circle members should click here to find the PowerPoint presentation that Janis Foster Richardson used for the "Introduction to Grassroots Grantmaking" webinar.
Embedded Funders Group, a learning circle of nine foundations who shared the common experience of "funding in their own backyard", recently wrapped up their work together after four years of learning circle activities. Launched several years ago by the University of Chicago's Chapin Hall Center for Research on Children with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Embedded Funders group now hosts annual sharing meetings where dialogue is deep, frank and inspiring.
Members of the Embedded Funders Group Learning Circle included:
Cherokee Preservation Foundation Comer Science and Education Foundation Denver Foundation Gifford Foundation Humboldt Area Foundation Incarnate Word Foundation Jacobs Family Foundation J. F. Maddox Foundation Piton Foundation Russell Family Foundation Self Family Foundation The Skillman Foundation
Click here to read more about what it means to be an embedded funder.
A learning circle that includes key staff with local organizations that are organized to support local grassroots groups and leaders with technical assistance, training, convening, coaching, and access to information.
