Community Reimagined, Episode 13

20/04/2022 22 min

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Episode Synopsis

On this episode of Community Reimagined, we are celebrating Volunteer Appreciation Month by diving into an awesome conversation around our new Community Investments process with Dr. Edna Varner, Brian Beaulieu, Terrance Brown and our host, Connor Tarter.
In this episode, we wanted to highlight, celebrate, and transparently share the changes in our Community Investments process, total requests from applicants, and our thorough, volunteer dependent and led review process.
Beginning in 2017, our historical allocations process underwent an innovative process to move from transactional to transformational impact and investments. Working alongside our historically funded partners and community advocates, we embarked on a design journey to reimagine mutual power-sharing and accountability through resource investment. Our Community Investments team worked closely with historically funded partners to ensure a step-down process to maintain the trust we all worked to build throughout the years while also preparing to build new bridges of trust with new partnering organizations!