Knowledge Is Power: LGBTQI and Human Rights Funders, Disaggregate Your Data!

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When several LGBTQI funders set out in 2013 to better understand the landscape of funding for trans* human rights, our first stop was the International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) and Foundation Center's groundbreaking data set on global human rights funding. To our surprise, we found very little information about funding for trans* people specifically. When I went looking last month for data on funding dedicated to lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, I found the same gap. This, I realized, is because most foundations report their funding for "LGBT" people as just that: "LGBT."

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Returning to Relationships: Effective Consulting Partnerships (and Beyond)

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The funder-grantee relationship is one of the major thematic areas covered by CEP’s grantee survey, which asks about interactions — staff responsiveness, the foundation’s approachability, and grantee perceptions of being treated fairly — as well as the clarity and consistency of communications between the funder and the grantee. Similarly, our donor perception report looks at the relationships between donors and the community foundations to which they give. Why? Because relationships are important. In our grantee survey, we see correlation between grantee ratings of their relationships with their funders and measures of impact. Quality of relationships between donors and community foundations is related to donor satisfaction, too. We say this all the time to foundation staff and board members: relationships matter.

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