Revolutionising Community Organising Funding with Civic Power Fund’s Martha Mackenzie

Charity Impact

Discover the power of community organising, the lack of funding for grassroots movements and how the Civic Power Fund is addressing this issue through participatory grantmaking and funder collaboration.

Episode Keywords:

Community Organising, Social Justice Funding, Self-Determination, People Power, Solidarity, Civic Power Fund, Participatory Grant-Making, Movement Building, Funders, Intermediaries, Radical Change, Philanthropy.

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Chapters:

(0:00:00) – Community organising

(0:09:30) – Social justice funding

(0:14:10) - Funding grassroots organising and national infrastructure to support organisers

(0:23:05) – Fundraising, funder collaboration, movement building and intermediaries

(0:30:25) – Shifting funder mindsets

(0:34:10) – Recommended resources.

Martha Mackenzie, Executive Director, Civic Power Fund

Martha has a background in organising, campaigning, fundraising and charity leadership.

She was previously Head of Global Humanitarian Advocacy at UNICEF in New York, and has led teams and campaigns at Shelter and Save the Children in the UK.

Martha has balanced progressive fundraising and advocacy with campaigns rooted in redistributing power. She has worked with renters to tackle revenge evictions, campaigned with parents on childcare costs, helped establish the youth activism charity Advocacy Academy and won multi-million dollar advocacy grants.

You can find Martha at Civic Power Fund and on LinkedIn or Twitter.

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