This Proximate article by Kelley Buhles (May 2024) synthesizes over 175 participatory grantmaking resources—case studies, reports, toolkits and webinars—and highlights practical lessons (compensating participants, ensuring genuine decision-making power, and allowing time for relationship-based processes), the essential “inner work” for funders to examine power and privilege, and available self-assessment tools and donor-specific guidance (including family foundations). It is included in the Philanthropic Giving chapter, Subchapter Strategies for Giving, because it directly supports the book’s argument about deploying capital with intention: providing concrete frameworks, examples and practices for shifting power to communities and designing more equitable, trust-based philanthropic strategies.