What iF philanthropy were community-centered?
To build community power, we support community-based and nonprofit organizations in the Washington, DC region that advance racial equity and justice by undertaking community organizing, community engagement and advocacy.
Participatory Grantmaking and Capacity Building
iF implements a participatory grantmaking approach for our community power grantmaking program. This approach “cedes decision-making power about funding decisions – including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions – to the very communities that a foundation aims to serve.” (Source: Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking, Grantcraft)
This means that a committee of community members of the global majority—hailing from the District of Columbia, Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties in Maryland, and Northern Virginia—with lived experiences of racial inequities who are engaged in organizing and advocacy, select the grant recipients.
We support community-based and nonprofit organizations in the Washington, DC region that operationalize racial equity and justice and undertake community organizing, community engagement and advocacy.
In 2021, our capacity building program focuses on LGBTQI organizations working at the intersection of race and gender identity in the movement for social justice.
