Tools & Resources to Shift Power to Communities
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Looking at your role/function within your foundation.
What are listening practices that can shift power?
Assess how you are listening through a set of reflection questions.
How do you think about your own power? What power do you hold and how do you wield it?
In order to listen to communities in authentic and non-extractive ways, it’s critical to reflect on your individual sources of power and how you use them.
Q: What are the sources of your power? Reflect on your identity, role/position, expertise, etc.
Q: What are the uses of your power?
Q: What are the formal and informal mechanisms available to you to help your organization shift its relationship with communities at the heart of its work?
Get going with these tools and resources
Use this resource to recognize the different ways people and communities can be marginalized. It’s a good first step toward understanding power — who has it, and how it can be used and shared.
This workshop is for foundations looking to strengthen their equity-centered practices. It includes activities to explore how power shows up within your organization and externally with community partners and grantees.
A cohort-based training for you to explore and deepen a racial equity analysis around the power you hold when in management. By engaging in self-reflection and interactive activities with other participants, you will learn tools, practice strategies, and vision around liberatory ways to lead projects and teams.
NPQ shares how nurturing “power within” can support individual agency in strategic planning processes. NPQ also shares how to navigate the tensions of positional authority and divergent perspectives with “power with” approaches that ensure exchange and reciprocity, not extraction
