What Does #ShiftThePower and Community Philanthropy Mean for Alternative Resource Mobilization?
What Does #ShiftThePower and Community Philanthropy Mean for Alternative Resource Mobilization?

September 20, 2021

What Does #ShiftThePower and Community Philanthropy Mean for Alternative Resource Mobilization?

Monday September 20, 2021

10:00am – 11:30am EDT

Zoom

Background

The #ShiftThePower movement emerged as a result of frustration with the current top-down structures of development aid delivering long-term results. What started as a hashtag to promote the 2016 Global Summit on Community Foundations by the Global Fund for Community Foundations,

#ShiftThePower offers up new ways of deciding and doing together, consisting of a global community of practitioners and emerging practice that is people-centered and local assets based.

#ShiftThePower seeks to reform the practice of development aid and institutional philanthropy and demand better for local people by engaging them as co-investors in and owners of their development. 

In this workshop, we will hear from the Global Fund for Community Foundations on how #ShiftThePower works in practice, how local communities are taking ownership of their own development, and how community philanthropy can be used as an alternative strategy for building durable development and resource mobilization. 

Agenda

10:00 – 10:20 – Global Fund for Community Foundations introduces the #ShiftThePower movement plus interactive exercise around what Shifting the Power means for each of us.

10:20-10:50 – Interactive panel and facilitated Q&A

10:50-11:00 – Open Q&A

11:00 – 11:20 – Breakout rooms for further exploration into key discussion points from the session

11:20-11:30 – Wrap up and action steps

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