Designing Agile & Equitable Granting Systems
Join Submittable’s Caitlin Stainken as she interviews Lauren Slone, MAP Fund’s director of grants and research, on how MAP Fund has worked to design more agile and equitable systems into its granting process. MAP awards $1 million annually to support innovation and cross-cultural exploration in new works of live performance.
With an emphasis on creating application and review structures that have the potential to welcome diverse applicants, we’ll explore MAP’s process, innovations, and lessons learned over its 30 years of grantmaking. You’ll hear ideas for how to:
- Minimize the applicant’s burden and create a feedback-rich organizational culture
- Remove staff bias as much as possible
- Assemble a diverse, national cohort of peer reviewers
- And why it’s important to be willing to experiment and fail
Original air date: February 25, 2020
Lauren Ree Slone
Director of Grants & Research
MAP Fund
Lauren Ree Slone is a lifelong student of dance and a choreographic systems thinker who creates many different ways of connecting people and ideas. At MAP Fund, Lauren oversees the core grantmaking vision, strategy, and operations. She is deeply focused on aligning MAP’s structural practices with its mission and values in efforts to facilitate a truly iterative, responsive, and anti-oppressive resource distribution process.
Caitlin Stainken
Director of New Business
Submittable
Caitlin Stainken works with grantmakers, big and small, as part of Submittable’s sales team. She is passionate about helping grantmakers build community and increase their impact, and she’ll highlight some unique, successful strategies to inspire you to find new opportunities in your own process.
Grants Management Professional Competency Model
Cross-Cutting Competencies
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in grantmaking practices.
- Technology Management: Apply technology solutions to grantmaking to support grantmaker applicant, and grantee success.
Lifecycle of a Grant Competencies
- Planning and Pre-Grant: Apply the grantmaker values, mission, and goals to ensure alignment of application process and guidelines.
- Planning and Pre-Grant: Design and implement the review process to support an informed grant decision.
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