A crisis at the International Disability Alliance, International Disability Alliance (IDA), has sent tremors through the disability movement.

This newsletter is an exclusive look at what's just happened, and an exploration of strategic questions that come out of it.

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Vacancy: We are searching for our first Inclusion Advisor - a new position at Validity Foundation who will ensure persons with disabilities are involved at all levels of governance, programmes and operations. Deadline: 8 March 2024, 17:00 CET. Full details here: tinyurl.com/validity-ia

After listening to Agnes Callard, I think in philanthropy, ambition is foundations focused on top-down outcomes, while aspiration is about the iterative process of becoming a different kind of funder. Our tool to support that work: advancingparticipation.com

That’s because metrics are largely still defined by a donor’s idea of “success” or “impact” not by a community’s idea. Use the APPT tool available at advancingparticipation.com to ask these kinds of questions about who philanthropy is centering across all its functions.

Awesome to see this award made public!! Congratulations Disability Rights Fund. Great recognition of 15 years of this fund that - at the beginning when I was founding ED - seemed just adream of justice for more than 1 billion people around the world. We did it!! We changed philanthropy

Thank you Women Enabled International for lifting up our challenge to philanthropy!! Catherine Townsend

'Why do so few...large foundations shift meaningful decisions and power to the communities they serve when they know it will lead to more effective grantmaking?' Awesome to see this article out! Congrats Katy Love and Jody Myrum <3
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Are you questioning your metrics? Do you believe in #ParticipatoryGrantmaking ? Read on - from ⁦Katy Love⁩ and me, a new blog out with ⁦Blackbaud⁩ An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens blog.blackbaud.com/an-evolution-o…

Great to see this resource I worked on - How To Track Funding for Systemic Change - out today!! It will help funders track monies for disability rights. Disability & Philanthropy Forum disabilityphilanthropy.org/foundation-giv…

Read my blog on the role of philanthropy from the #InnovatePhilanthropy Symposium NEID Global alliancemagazine.org/blog/the-role-…

Come hear about how #ParticipatoryGrantmaking and its principles are expanding within the INGO sector, in addition to philanthropy The RINGO Project

Honored to be part of this Fund breaking new ground on loss & damage funding for #ClimateJustice . And way to go First Minister!!

Great to hear from Ilwad and Jamila - winners of the ⁦Aurora Prize⁩ #InnovatePhilanthropy . #disability is often not mentioned but a strength and cross-cutting - 1 in 5 women.

Is it really the end of August? The fall season of conferences is about to begin. Start yours off by coming to the Innovations in International Philanthropy Symposium in Boston, September 7-8: lnkd.in/e8F8_TXQ You can attend the below session with me and Catherine Townsend

Foundations: have you wished you had a self-assessment tool to support your work to increase #participation of those impacted by your funding? Come hear Katy Love and me talk about our tool at the Blackbaud webinar series on July 20: hello.blackbaud.com/Blackbaud-Gran…

Great opportunity for people with disabilities interested in policy analysis and development! Disability Justice Project Disability Rights Fund

It looked like a good start ⁦British Airways⁩ from Heathrow last night but it was instead brutal. Flight canceled; hours-long wait for baggage; no help with finding lodging. Ouch!! I had 4 hours sleep.

So great to be in London with ⁦Center for Inclusive Policy⁩ - the disability think & do tank!! ⁦Mont - Dis and Dev⁩ ⁦