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title: CASE STUDY | Participatory Grantmaking in the Peel Region
description: This case study from Myriam Bérubé and Karenveer Pannu provides an overview of Tamarack’s Participatory Grantmaking project in Ontario’s Peel Region.
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# [CASE STUDY | Participatory Grantmaking in the Peel Region](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/case-studies/case-study-participatory-grantmaking-in-the-peel-region)

 Written by [the Tamarack Institute](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/case-studies/author/tamarack-institute) | Aug 8, 2022 7:08:39 PM

This case study from Myriam Bérubé and Karenveer Pannu provides an overview of Tamarack’s Participatory Grantmaking project in Ontario’s Peel Region. The pilot project was a collaboration between the [WES Mariam Assefa Fund](https://www.wes.org/fund/) and the Tamarack Institute.

The project explored the following questions:

 

- What would happen if residents were able to decide what organizations and services were funded within their community?
- What would happen if funding priorities were defined by community residents instead of philanthropic foundations?
- How might this change and empower a community?

This case study presents key lessons learned from the Tamarack team’s perspective during the first half of this two-year project, which launched in 2021.

 

### Deepen Your Learning:

- Read about [Empowering Newcomers to the Peel Region Through Participatory Grantmaking](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/library/empowering-newcomers-to-the-peel-region-through-participatory-grantmaking?hsLang=en-us)
- Learn about the [Monitoring Collaboration tool](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/interactive-tools/monitoring-collaboration?hsLang=en-us), which was used by the team profiled in this case study

*Note: This document was published in 2022 and uses the word *stakeholder *to reference the different parties connected to the outcomes of a situation or decision. *

*Since using the term, [we as an organization have learned more about the origins of this word and its original uses](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5020149/). We want to acknowledge this history and communicate our desire to change which we are still developing as an organization. *

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