2024 Grants
Toward the end of 2023, CJRF’s board approved an 18-month strategy to deploy up to US$4M in funding by “test-driving” several different participatory grantmaking methods.
As a funder who has made grants via traditional philanthropic methods and structures in the past, CJRF is now investing in a period of exploration and learning. We will undertake a series of initiatives that will allow our staff and board to test several methods for participatory grantmaking over the course of 2024-25, including:
an applicant collective process, where applicants will select the awardees;
network-driven grantmaking processes, where current and past grant partners set strategic parameters, refer organizations for funding, or otherwise drive the grantmaking;
a re-granter collective;
potentially one or more other models
We invite you to follow along with us as we test and explore these various participatory grantmaking models. All of our 2024 grants will be added to this page throughout the year. You can read more about the participatory processes and individual grants below.
