I'm sharing a wonderful 2-minute video, Be That Woman, that the Washington Area Women's Foundation recently shared in an email. While the Washington Area Women's Foundation developed this video to help demonstrate the importance of investing in women and girls, I see a message here as well for place-based funders who are engaged in grassroots grantmaking - with its simple yet moving message about the power of relationships.
Grassroots grantmaking is inherently a relationship business, isn't it? At its core, it's about investing in the power of relationships to make our communities work and to address the things that are causing them to not work. It's also about putting a human face on grantmaking - about building the people to people relationships between funders and community residents that enable the grant process and the grant award to move dreams into action rather than to just move dollars from one account to another. It's about the change that comes from the cumulative effect of a lot of small things - person to person, one thing after the after.
This video says that to me. Check it out and see what you think. And thanks to the Washington Area Women's Foundation for sharing!
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