Grants Shouldn't be a Riddle with Olvia Jones
In a new episode of Untapped Philanthropy, Olivia Jones, Senior Arts and Culture Funding Manager for the City of San Diego, joins hosts Kerrin Mitchell and Tim Sarrantonio to explore what happens when the systems designed to fund communities end up excluding them. Having worked on both sides of the grant-making table, Olivia discusses how inaccessible grant language introduces bias before an application is even submitted, what equitable grant-making actually requires, and why translating policy into plain language may be one of philanthropy's most powerful levers for change.
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