CASE STUDY | Participatory Grantmaking in the Peel Region

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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 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

Learn about the Monitoring Collaboration tool, which was used by the team profiled in this case study

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