{"id":5241,"date":"2007-06-27T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T08:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2007-06-27T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T08:31:22","slug":"case-foundations-citizen-centered-grantmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5241","title":{"rendered":"Case Foundation&#8217;s citizen-centered grantmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Strom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/26\/us\/26charity.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">reported yesterday<\/a> in the New York Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a first, a major foundation is offering the public a direct role in deciding who should receive some of its money, a process typically shrouded in mystery. &#8230; The foundation is asking individuals and small local nonprofit groups to send ideas for improving their communities. A group of judges will select 100 of the submissions received by Aug. 8 and ask for a more formal proposal. &#8230; Another panel of judges will then select 20 finalists, who will receive $10,000 each. And in November, the public can vote on those proposals, and the four that receive the most votes will get an additional $25,000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Strom was most interested in the process, which is innovative. But the substance of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casefoundation.org\/make-it-your-own\/awards\">grant competition <\/a>is equally important. Case is looking for &#8220;citizen-centered&#8221; work, as defined in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casefoundation.org\/spotlight\/civic_engagement\/summary\">key paper <\/a>by Cindy Gibson. Citizen-centered projects start with broad-based, open-ended deliberations about what should be done. People are not mobilized or persuaded to do what leaders or experts think. Citizen-centered projects go beyond deliberation and discussion to include direct action, from which people learn and then improve their discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Gibson also has a new blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenpost.blogspot.com\/\">Citizen Post<\/a>, &#8220;the one-stop place for all things citizen-centered&#8211;the way democracy should be.&#8221; Although it officially launches this week, it already has a series of thoughtful posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Strom reported yesterday in the New York Times: In a first, a major foundation is offering the public a direct role in deciding who should receive some of its money, a process typically shrouded in mystery. &#8230; The foundation is asking individuals and small local nonprofit groups to send ideas for improving their communities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}