Tools & Resources to Shift Power to Communities
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Looking at your role/function within your foundation.
What are listening practices that can shift power?
Assess how you are listening through a set of reflection questions.
How do you think about your own power? What power do you hold and how do you wield it?
In order to listen to communities in authentic and non-extractive ways, it’s critical to reflect on your individual sources of power and how you use them.
Q: What are the sources of your power? Reflect on your identity, role/position, expertise, etc.
Q: What are the uses of your power?
Q: What are the formal and informal mechanisms available to you to help your organization shift its relationship with communities at the heart of its work?
Get going with these tools and resources
Use this resource to recognize the different ways people and communities can be marginalized. It’s a good first step toward understanding power — who has it, and how it can be used and shared.
This workshop is for foundations looking to strengthen their equity-centered practices. It includes activities to explore how power shows up within your organization and externally with community partners and grantees.
A cohort-based training for you to explore and deepen a racial equity analysis around the power you hold when in management. By engaging in self-reflection and interactive activities with other participants, you will learn tools, practice strategies, and vision around liberatory ways to lead projects and teams.
Explore this menu to spark the changes you want to see.
Mix and match to find the examples, resources, and reflections best suited to help you and your organization shift power to the people and communities at the heart of your work.
Have questions about the menu or ideas for resources or examples?
Please reach out to our communications manager, Debra Blum.
