Event overview

Share & Learn: How evaluators can use the Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit

Have you heard about practices that put community voices front and center in philanthropy, but don't know where to start? Join guests from Fund for Shared Insight, a US funder collaborative, to learn about this concept, what it looks like in practice, and how you can implement it at your foundation. 

Their Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit introduces a number of practitioner-focused tools, including a readiness assessment, recommendations and good practices, checklists and templates, and an in-depth case study of their participatory climate initiative.  They'll discuss how participation of communities can be done in all areas of a foundation's work, from the strategy to the grantmaking to the MEL practices and beyond. 

When

Wednesday 26 February 2025 (Australia) 

11:30am - 12:30pm AEDT (ACT, NSW, VIC)

11:00am - 12:00pm ACDT (SA)

10:30am - 11:30am AEST (QLD)

10:00am - 11:00am ACST (NT)

8:30am - 9:30am AWST (WA)

Tuesday 25 February 2025 (USA) 

4:30pm - 5:30pm PST / UTC -8 (SFO)

7:30pm - 8:30pm EST/ UTC -5 (NY)

Online event

Details will be provided after the registration is submitted.

Audience

All welcome. 

Are you an evaluator or a measurement, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practitioner in a funding / grantmaking body? We invite you to submit your membership EoI to join the LEAF Network.

Philanthropy Australia membership is not required to become part of the LEAF Network.

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If you want to find out more about the work in this area, please reach out to LEAF@philanthropy.org.au.

Speakers

		Melinda Tuan - Managing Director, Fund for Shared Insight Melinda guides and facilitates Fund for Shared Insight’s operations, communications, grantmaking, evaluation, and more. As an independent consultant to senior leadership at philanthropic organizations around the country, Melinda promotes, crafts, and implements strategies for effective philanthropy.
		Prior to starting her consulting practice in 2003, Melinda co-founded and ran REDF, a social-venture capital fund; served as a manager at a national healthcare nonprofit; and worked as a management consultant. She enthusiastically brings her unique combination of business, leadership, evaluation, and management skills to helping mission-oriented organizations meet their goals, care for people, and better the world in which we live.
		Katy Love - Program Manager, Fund for Shared Insight Katy is a program manager at Fund for Shared Insight and co-author of the Participatory Philanthropy Toolkit. She is an independent consultant working with funders to align their values with their practices in governance, strategy and design, and evaluation and learning.
		Katy speaks and writes frequently about shifting power in philanthropy, has led, designed, and participated in more than 50 rounds of participatory grantmaking, and co-developed the Advancing Participation in Philanthropy Tool. She served as the director of grantmaking at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, and held roles at Global Fund for Children and CARE International.
		Winifred Olliff - Consultant, Fund for Shared Insight Winifred is co-leading Shared Insight’s climate-focused participatory grantmaking initiative. She brings experience implementing transformative approaches in philanthropy, including participatory philanthropy, trust-based philanthropy, long-term flexible funding, microgrants, and grantee-centered approaches to risk management. Winifred’s work has focused on complex issues from digital inclusion to climate justice in more than 80 countries.

Peer Network Lead