COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

Uses multi-funder collaboratives, rapid response small grants, and quick turnaround funding to enable agile support for grassroots organizations, fostering collaboration and responsiveness to emerging challenges and opportunities.

The organization engages in collaborative grantmaking through long-term partnerships and shared learning to advance social justice. It also employs rapid response and quick turnaround grantmaking models to provide timely financial support for networking, collaboration, and addressing unexpected challenges or opportunities for grassroots social change organizations.

Provides tailored organizational support through fiscal sponsorship, incubation, and values-aligned infrastructure development, enabling social justice groups to grow without conforming to standardized nonprofit models.

The organization provides tailored, outcome-driven organizational support by designing custom infrastructure solutions rather than applying standardized models. This includes enabling partner organizations to experiment with and integrate their own policies into fiscal sponsorship frameworks, ensuring alignment with their values and specific needs.

Uses an incubator model to strengthen emerging or growing social justice organizations by providing infrastructure, leadership development, and organizational support that deepens their movement-building capacity.

Prioritizes funding for organizations led by marginalized communities that address systemic root causes through an intersectional justice lens, with focused investment in frontline power-building efforts, particularly in California.

The organization applies an intersectional justice lens to its funding, prioritizing support for organizations led by marginalized communities. These organizations are specifically chosen for their work in addressing systemic root causes of injustice.

Applies an intersectional justice lens to funding and supports multi-funder collaboratives, ensuring resources are directed to organizations led by marginalized communities addressing systemic inequities.

Prioritizes funding for organizations led by marginalized communities that address systemic root causes through an intersectional justice lens, with a focus on building power among frontline groups engaged in major U.S. social justice issues.

Reorients evaluation practices in philanthropy to prioritize accountability to grassroots movements over traditional top-down metrics, centering movement-defined outcomes and learning.

Uses flexible, responsive, and collaborative funding models—including multi-funder collaboratives, rapid response grants, and long-term partnerships—to align with the interconnected nature of social justice issues and support frontline organizations based on movement guidance rather than predefined program areas.

The organization advocates for a reoriented evaluation model in philanthropy that prioritizes accountability to grassroots movements, shifting away from traditional top-down metrics.

Reorients evaluation in philanthropy to prioritize accountability to grassroots movements, using collaborative learning and long-term partnerships to assess impact beyond traditional top-down metrics.

Aligns funding with social justice movements rather than predefined program areas, prioritizing interconnected systemic issues and trusting movements as closest to the ground to guide strategic investment.

Aligns funding with social justice movements rather than predefined program areas, using long-term partnerships, collaborative learning, and rapid response mechanisms to support frontline organizations based on interconnected systemic challenges and grassroots leadership.

Grantmaking is aligned with and responsive to social justice movements rather than predefined program areas, using rapid response, collaborative, and long-term funding models to support frontline organizations and movement-led priorities.

The organization believes that social justice movements, driven by democratic participation, are the primary catalysts for transformative social change. Therefore, its philanthropic approach is centered on shifting power and resources to these movements, prioritizing their leadership and decision-making in grantmaking and organizational support.

Engages individual donors and families through a donor-advised fund (DAF) model rooted in progressive social movements, aligning philanthropic resources with values-forward, movement-led priorities.

Reorients evaluation in philanthropy to prioritize accountability to grassroots movements over traditional top-down metrics, fostering collaborative learning and adaptive practices that center movement voices.

The organization supports social justice movements by hosting multi-funder collaboratives, in addition to providing fiscal sponsorship and donor advising services.

The organization centers its grantmaking and infrastructure support on shifting power to grassroots social justice movements by aligning resources, decision-making, and evaluation practices with movement priorities, believing that democratic, community-led movements are the primary drivers of transformative change.

Advocates for and practices a restructuring of philanthropy to transfer control of resources and decision-making to grassroots social justice movements, emphasizing democratic participation and movement leadership in shaping funding priorities and processes.

The organization believes transformative change is driven by social justice movements and therefore restructures philanthropy to transfer decision-making power and resources directly to grassroots movements, prioritizing their leadership and accountability.

Advocates for restructuring philanthropy to transfer control of resources and decision-making to grassroots social justice movements, emphasizing democratic participation and frontline leadership as central to transformative change.

Guides grantmaking through principles of progressive, community-centered practice that emphasize equity, participation, and structural change.

Guides all grantmaking through a framework of progressive, community-oriented principles that center equity, participation, and systemic change.

The organization practices a progressive, community-oriented philanthropy, guiding its grantmaking with specific principles. It partners with individual donors and families, including through a movement-rooted donor-advised fund model, to channel philanthropic resources towards progressive social movements.

Channels philanthropic capital through a values-forward, intersectional lens by advising donors and operating a movement-rooted donor-advised fund that prioritizes funding for marginalized community-led organizations addressing systemic inequities.

Advocates for shifting evaluation practices in philanthropy to prioritize accountability to grassroots movements rather than top-down metrics, ensuring that assessment supports movement autonomy and long-term systemic change.

Provides tailored fiscal sponsorship, donor advising, and multi-funder collaboratives that prioritize values alignment, enabling partner organizations to integrate their own policies and experiment within supportive infrastructure, rather than applying standardized models.

Provides tailored fiscal sponsorship and organizational support through custom infrastructure solutions and an incubator model that enables values-aligned experimentation and capacity building for social justice organizations.

Provides tailored fiscal sponsorship and organizational development support that enables values-aligned experimentation and capacity building, using an incubator model and custom infrastructure solutions to strengthen the operational resilience of social justice organizations.

Engages individual donors and families through a movement-rooted donor-advised fund and advising services that align philanthropic giving with progressive values and social justice outcomes.