Courageous Giving
We provide tailored consulting to individuals, families and foundations who are ready to apply their progressive social justice values to their giving.
We specialize in crafting strategies and systems to move funds in alignment with the needs of grassroots organizations on the frontlines of social change.
Our services include:
Organizational Development
Strategic Planning
Develop mission, vision and values
Designing governance structures
Thought partnership
IT infrastructure set-up for start-up foundations
Cybersecurity
Grantmaking Program Support
Creating and refining grantmaking processes
Due diligence process design and implementation
Curriculum and program design for grantee-facing programming
Our Approach
Modern-day philanthropy sits at a complicated point in our capitalist system, where it is both a tool of support for marginalized communities while also being funded by a financial system that allows the top 1% to hoard wealth to the detriment of the remaining 99%. We engage in reparative philanthropy that redistributes wealth, seeks to disrupt oppressive systems and places grantmakers in right relationship with grantseekers.
Our consulting is guided by the following philanthropic frameworks and principles:
“It is healing behavior, to look at something so broken and see the possibility and wholeness in it.”