“Participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding— including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions—to the very communities that funders aim to serve.”

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Jewish Liberation Fund practices participatory grantmaking

 

All of our grantmaking recommendations are made by a collective of decision-makers that is composed of people who are connected to and trusted within the communities we fund. This decision-making body, the Jewish Liberation Fund Steering Committee, is composed entirely of Jews of Color who have deep experience in progressive Jewish movements and power-building. For transparency, they are publicly displayed on our website, along with the grantmaking criteria they use to evaluate proposals.

A gift to JLF is a radical act of trust

 

When you give to JLF, you’re transferring decision-making power from yourself — a donor — to activists and organizers rooted in and intimately familiar with the movements we want to fund.

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