{"id":6853,"date":"2023-11-14T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/?post_type=programme&p=6853"},"modified":"2024-04-15T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:48:20","slug":"uniting-philanthropy-to-support-civic-engagement","status":"publish","type":"programme","link":"https:\/\/socialinnovationexchange.org\/legacy\/programme\/six-funders-node\/retreats\/uniting-philanthropy-to-support-civic-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniting philanthropy to support civic engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Uniting philanthropy to support civic engagement<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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What can funders do to strengthen democratic institutions and civil society to better prepare and respond to the challenges for the decade ahead?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In partnership with the Headwaters Foundation, and with support from several Montana based funders, SIX brought together local, national and international funders together for 3 days on the beautiful West Creek Ranch in Montana to discuss the timely topic of civic engagement and philanthropy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From influencing policy, to championing communities to be better advocates for their own futures, the retreat explored why funders should pay attention to democracy and how they can build collective power and influence, drive momentum and take action around long term systems change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the retreat<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Increasingly, funders are recognising how democracy shapes debates about societal issues, how this plays out at local levels and the role they can play. They are paying more attention to their role in perpetuating, and resolving, the harmful effects of injustice, colonialism and racial or health inequity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using Montana as a live case study, participants had the opportunity to learn about real time, locally rooted, issues around democracy, and Montana funders had the opportunity to be inspired by global examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the months before the retreat, we hosted a series of online discussions<\/a> to better understand how this topic was being addressed by a wider group of foundations around the world. We then brought 24 people together in Montana to dive deeper into the following key questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n