Learning how to bend grant application logics towards justice

Written By Valentina Branada

Nine months ago — before the pandemic and before the murder of George Floyd and Chantel Moore sparked a racial reckoning — our social design organization, InWithForward, entered into partnership with Vancouver Foundation to co-develop and test ways to deepen impact and strengthen equity within systems change grantmaking. An independent evaluation of the foundation’s Systems Change Grants found that, while the supply of and demand for systems change work increased, not all communities equally benefited. Organizations from rural communities and Indigenous communities seemed to fare worse in the process. Read more.