FundAction Information

__Mission As a participatory grantmaker, our mission is to shift decision-making power over funding from funders to affected communities and activists working on the frontlines. We are committed to embedding care, feminist, and anti-oppression principles across all levels of our work: operational practices, community engagement, membership dynamics. On the level of funders and people of wealth, we work to facilitate transformative change by sharing our lived experience of participatory grantmaking and by inviting funders to join the journey, shift power and become catalysts of this much needed change in philanthropy. __Participatory Grant Process Back in 2016, FundAction was a true pioneer in its attempt to shift power from funders to activists. Today, FundAction is still unique as a practitioner of participatory grantmaking. Funders of FundAction play an active role in terms of learning and advising but they have no decision-making power. Instead the activist members decide collectively how they redistribute the funds among themselves. __Governance and structure Participatory decision-making processes are at the core of FundAction. We use a digital participatory platform to consult with our community, making it easy and accessible to engage in our participatory processes. FundAction is registered as a foundation in The Netherlands. The formal decision-making body of FundAction is the Board. FundAction also has a Supervisory Board (known as Community Council). Board and Supervisory Board members are representatives of the FundAction community. Daily coordination and operations are in the hands of a small team who report to the Board (known as Facilitation Group) and Supervisory Board and who work to implement decisions endorsed by the FundAction community. __Grants As a participatory grantmaking fund, our core activity consists of funding multiple grant rounds for our community of grassroots activists who seek funding to continue their vital work.