Are Our Guidelines and Practices Creating Pathways for Wellbeing?

Our country’s social service system is grounded in assumptions about poverty, violence, illness, under-education, and oppression all of which focus on areas where there is deviance or difference. However, to combat inequities and create lasting change we must shift our focus towards wellbeing—the set of needs and experiences universally required in combination and balance to weather challenges and have health and hope. As nonprofits make this shift, grantmakers’ alignment can be powerful and vital for both nonprofits and communities. Hear from the Full Frame Initiative in this interactive session, adapted from a workshop planned for GEO’s 2020 National Conference, you will explore assumptions undergirding your grantmaking, and will then walk through a framework for assessing how grantmaking practices and structures align with the ability to foster community and individual wellbeing and how to reconsider them in a post-COVID-19 environment.

We encourage everyone to bring examples of their grant guidelines or application processes to use during the webinar.