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What is institutional change? What are the key benefits of an accumulation of many small changes, versus an occasional larger change? Institutional change is about the personal, professional and institutional journey—not destination—with each journey being unique and requiring different changes and actions. Institutional change begins with the necessary audit and reflection on policies and practice within institutions to produce outcomes that may otherwise lead to inequalities and inequities within systems.
This webinar is part of our ongoing series for Communities for Gender Equality and open to any and all community foundations in our network. Join us, alongside Future Ancestors Alchemist, Mo Phung, to learn more about the complex dynamic between equality and equity, and how it applies to the philanthropic sector, as well as our society at-large.
When it comes to the issues that matter most to Canadians, CFC knows that today and always, one of these issues is anti-racism. This invitation is not meant to be an exclusive guide, toolkit, or one-stop-shop for anti-racism materials for community foundations. Rather, this is a space to begin a conversation on the community foundation movement’s shortcomings, and to take pause to reflect on where we need to go.
Trust-based philanthropy is being embraced by a growing number of foundations as a way to alleviate power imbalances between funders and grantees while fostering more productive and informative relationships. In this webinar, participants will understand the premise of trust-based philanthropy and hear from community foundations that are embracing trust-based approaches and how these practices align with the organization’s values.
Foundations across Canada grant millions of dollars to organizations addressing social issues such as poverty, education, the environment, health and more every year. These pressing issues intersect with many identities such as race, gender, sexual orientation, class, immigration or Indigenous status.
Across the various issues and identities, women, girls, Two-Spirit people and gender-diverse people have faced historical and continual disadvantages and discrimination. For community foundations, how do we introduce and build a practice of feminist grantmaking in order to increase our impact and how we must consider the role that gender, privilege and power have in the context of the issues being addressed.
