Authentic Community Engagement Part 3: the Power of Collaboration with Proximate Leaders

In the third webinar of our “Authentic Community Engagement” series, we explore key pathways for building and nurturing meaningful relationships and partnerships with a diverse network of grantees. This session will expose community members to stories and tools that will leave them better equipped to design, build and sustain partnerships with proximate leaders guided by the core belief that proximity is both expertise and power.

Leaders from New Profit will share a three-part adapted framework for philanthropy for building depth of trust and familiarity with proximate leaders by considering truth-telling, redesign and equity.

In this particular moment of fundamental disruption as social distancing practices make it harder to build proximity, it is more important now than ever to build coalitions with leaders most proximate to communities with whom we seek to partner.

By building authentic relationships with proximate leaders, we can share power and be guided and informed by these partnerships in order to build more just and equitable systems led by key stakeholders and communities most systematically affected.