Learn about how The Ubele Initiative partnered with Reos Partners and Impact on Urban Health to facilitate a unique social labs process that explored participatory grantmaking with Black communities in the UK. Project Overview In seeking to explore funding, power and participatory grantmaking with Black communities, Impact on Urban Health (IoUH) initiated a process that engaged a group of […]
The first webinar, Black Led Systems Change, Accelerating Equitable Outcomes, was held in June can be viewed now online.
This webinar was jointly hosted by Reos Partners, Impact on Urban Health, and The Ubele Initiative. With our brilliant panelists, we shared insights from the ‘Black Systemic Safety Fund’ process, which aimed to accelerate equity through an innovative systems change initiative and achieve fair outcomes for Black and minoritized communities in the UK. We explored: what kinds of processes contribute to transformation, why it is fundamental to have the right people in the process, how and why to work with culture in the process, and the challenges of working effectively with power.
The second webinar, Funding, Power and Participatory Grantmaking, was held in July can be viewed now online.
This interactive webinar was jointly hosted by Reos Partners, Impact on Urban Health, and The Ubele Initiative. With our brilliant panellists, we shared insights from the ‘Black Systemic Safety Fund’ process, sharing learnings from a social lab process that implemented a unique approach to participatory grantmaking in Black communities in the UK. During this replay webinar, we explored: – Why we need to think about participatory grantmaking as more than just an approach to fund distribution – The importance of being conscious of power, rank, and privilege when undertaking participatory grant-making – The role of trust in participatory grant-making – How to create a process that leads to impactful granting Guest speakers included: Yannick Wassmer, Reos Partners https://reospartners.com/ Michael Hamilton, The Ubele Initiative https://ubele.org/ Radhika Byron, Impact on Urban Health https://urbanhealth.org.uk/ Candace James, Community Worker at BEM in Brixton Adrian Jones, who was also involved in this piece of work. The Black Systemic Safety Fund set out to address the issue of safety for Black and racially minoritised communities within Lambeth and Southwark through a unique social labs process.
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