When Funding Direct Services Enables Advocacy and Community Building Potential
In today’s private philanthropy, especially the part of the sector tailored to empowering and bringing about change for marginalized communities, one of the most prominent strategic tensions linked to a difference in perspectives between grant-makers and grantees is the issue of direct services and whether to engage in funding them or not. This tension, however, may not always speak to the needs of existing or prospective grantees for whom direct services can, and often are,...