RSVP for October 2 From Insight to Impact Webinar — "Reframing Expertise & Impact"
Updated: Sep 24
Who gets to define what impact looks like? Too often, traditional funding processes prioritize reports, metrics, and rigid requirements over the knowledge and lived experiences of the communities they are meant to support.
Our research report, Carrying the Weight, Leading the Change, highlights how funding practices can create additional burdens for grassroots organizations led by women and gender-expansive people of color across Greater Boston.
RSVP today to learn more about this in Session 4 of “From Insight to Impact,” our community learning and action webinar series unpacking data from our report, explaining that impact and expertise are not neutral. They are defined by those with power.
Friday, October 2
12:00–12:45 PM
Virtual on Zoom
Details
In Session 4, “Reframing Expertise & Impact,” we will explore who gets to define impact and how traditional reporting requirements and bureaucratic funding processes can create barriers for grassroots organizations. We will discuss what it looks like to move toward more trust-based practices that recognize stories, lived experience, and community knowledge as meaningful forms of data and expertise.
Grassroots leader Tre’Andre Valentine, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), will join the conversation to share insights from MTPC’s Working for Lived Equity Community Needs Assessment and what it means to center transgender people as experts in their own lives and communities. Tre'Andre will also speak to their experiences navigating funder expectations and what trust-based partnerships can look like in practice.
