2022 COMMUNITY LISTENING + ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY Co-Creating For The Future
JULY 2022
FUND CY
IDENTITY BASED FUNDS
ACK LEGA BL
Two focus groups were held for the Black Legacy Fund in July 2022. In total, 15 community members were in attendance.
In July 2022, The Black Legacy, Our LGBTQ, and Somos Comunidad funds hosted focus groups with members of their respective communities, noting their intersections, and with the following objectives in mind: “I LOVE T HE SENSE OF CONNECT EDNESS T HAT I FEEL IN MY COMMUNITY”
1. To listen more deeply to the aspirations and concerns of community members 2. To live into our desire to be in deeper relationships with communities we care about, and 3. To co-create investment opportunities in service of communities we care about. The focus groups intended to provide a space for deep listening, including noting what was implied or more implicit in the conversation. The purpose of the sessions was not only to obtain feedback around the technical inputs related to grantmaking but, more importantly, to highlight the relational elements within communities that foster sustainable relationships and movement building. The sessions also allowed members of the respective funds to participate as observers, allowing them to listen to the voices of their communities around their respective concerns and hopes for the future.
- FOCUS GROUP PARTICIPANT
1. ADDRESS + DISMANT LE INEQUITIES IN PHILANT HROPIC + GRANT MAKING SYST EMS T HAT LACK INCLUSION + ACCESSIBILITY.
APPLICATIONS
130 22% applications totaling $10,761,123 in requests
grassroots organizations (non 501c3s)
91% 58% of applications came from POC-led organizations
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Pictured: Committee volunteers at the Community Open House
had never been funded through the Community Foundation’s competitive grantmaking