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Location: 2840 Wilderness Place Ste A, Boulder, 80301 CO
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Grant Applicant - applied in 2024
They work with volunteer advisors, but according to the advisor we worked with - the one who invited a proposal for us - no one from the fund actually reaches out to the them about their grantmaking, so there is no accountability when a grant is 6 months late. Our grant was over a 9 months late! We are small grassroots group and I feel like they don't actually care if we get the grant that really means a lot to us. My advice is not to go for these funds for core or crucial work - only go for supplemental funds if you have free time to apply - and don't count on it arriving in a timely way.
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This is the problem! No accessibility really. This is frustrating, because they are an intermediary funder, and an intermediary fund is supposed to be better at grantmaking than the original donors. So if you aren't good at that, then you are now just skimming money out of the system! When I read all of their special language on the internet, it feels like they are earning money off the work we do.
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I will be asking for grants from independent local funds, not global grantmakers like this. Local funds take less off the top, have program staff who personally understand the issues, and are really good at grantmaking.
You have to figure out your value added to the actual impact on the ground, or your donors should be giving to independent funds in the regions. I am coming to the perspective that this kind of intermediary has to be bypassed, its not a good model.
They are good at hiring visionary (but disconnected) staff who talk about "changing power", "doing better", being "more just", but they all forgot that their actual role is to support the work of hardworking advisors and grantees who are the ones who actually live the work of fighting injustice.
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