Trust-Based and Equity-Focused Disaster Grant Evaluation: Sharing Power When Stakes Are High

Join us to learn strategies for trust-based and equity-focused evaluation for grantmaking in disaster contexts!

The Greater New Orleans Foundation has learned how evaluation, if done with sensitivity to stakeholders' needs, can guide disaster response towards equitable outcomes and hold grantmakers and responders accountable. We are living in a world where disasters are occurring more than ever. In addition to the obvious example of the COVID-19 pandemic and its multiple variants, climate change is wreaking havoc on all parts of the globe in various ways. Greater New Orleans knows this all too well; the city was an early epicenter of the pandemic, and then hit by Category 4 Hurricane Ida in late August 2021, not to mention Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oil Spill.

In this webinar, you’ll learn the frameworks GNOF used for making and evaluating trust-based grants responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricane Ida. The Greater New Orleans Foundation staff and their evaluation partners will share their experiences in disaster contexts, including what has worked to prioritize grantee partners' well-being and promote equity. Through guided group discussion this webinar with elicit perspectives from others about their approaches, challenges, and lessons learned for adopting trust-based and equity-focused grantmaking and evaluation in diverse disaster contexts.

This webinar is a continuation of our Leading Locally Conference programming. Explore and register for each session in the series: Leading Locally All Year Long