Members-Only Workshop – Disability Justice: Lessons from Participatory Grantmaking

Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM ET

This members-only workshop will provide an introductory overview of the guiding principles, models, and considerations for creating a participatory grantmaking process rooted in disability justice. Participants will hear from grantmakers who have developed different participatory grantmaking models about their learnings, highlights, and recommendations. Participants will also have the opportunity to assess and reflect on their own institutions, programs, and portfolios, and leave with an action plan for deepening practices of disability justice and participatory processes.

This workshop is only available to members of the Disability & Philanthropy Forum. If you work in philanthropy but are not a Forum member, we invite you to apply to become one!

About the Facilitators

Ryan Li Dahlstrom

Ryan Li Dahlstrom (he/him) has worked at the intersections of LGBTQ, youth, anti-violence, and racial justice movements for over 20 years. He is currently working as a consultant and coach for social justice nonprofits and philanthropic organizations. He previously served as the Director of Programs at Borealis Philanthropy, a social justice intermediary, where he oversaw over $36 million in annual grantmaking through 9 collaborative funds and capacity-building programs. Some of his past work includes donor advising, grantmaking strategy development, grassroots and institutional fundraising, movement building and grassroots organizing, and designing participatory grantmaking processes. He sees his role in philanthropy as a network weaver, organizer, and resource mobilizer in service of elevating the work of BIPOC, queer, trans, and disability communities and movements.

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