Funding Power Ecosystems for Lasting Systems Change

Registration is currently open*

• 4-week workshop to occur on the following dates: February 20, February 27, March 6, & March 13, 2025
• Last day for early bird registration rate: January 16, 2025
• Last day to register for workshop: February 6, 2025

All workshops sessions will occur from 10:00 am - 12:30 pm PT / 11:00 am - 1:30 pm MT / 12:00-2:30 pm CT / 1:00-3:30 pm ET

*Please note that at checkout, you will only be able to select the start date for the 4-week workshop. Purchasing the ticket for the start date will give you access to the full, four-week workshop.

Is your grantmaking organization committed to increasing funding for equity and systems change? Are you seeking to learn from communities that have successfully transformed systems and shifted power? The Population Health Innovation Lab (PHIL), in partnership with the Ginger Lee Global Health Consulting Group, invites you to join us for a four-week workshop to improve your grantmaking efforts as informed by the Public Health and Racial Equity Model for Systems Change (PHaRE Model for Systems Change). PHaRE is a newly developed, evidence-based model grounded in lessons learned from The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities' 1,200+ successful systems and policy changes which were led by low-resourced communities. Data from interviews with Program Managers and related document analysis have been overlaid with Complexity Theory and Multiple Streams Framework to produce this evidence-based model.

This four-week workshop is designed specifically for grantmaking organizations focused on advancing systems change through place-based and place-conscious grantmaking. The workshop, organized around the 5 Phases of the PHaRE Model for Systems Change, will equip you with strategies and tools to support the development of sustainable community power ecosystems and identify leverage points for transformative change. We will examine and discuss case studies to better understand the PHaRE Model in action. Community members that have been deeply involved in building power and transforming systems will join us at key points along our learning journey. We will then translate this deeper wisdom and knowledge into practical action plans to promote lasting change.

• Learn from Proven Success: Gain insights from an evidence-based model informed by more than 1,200 community-led successful systems and policy changes.
• Refine Your Grantmaking Approach: Equip yourself with practical strategies to support power ecosystems that advance health and racial equity from the start of your grantmaking effort to your exit plan.
• Engage with Community Wisdom: Participate in interactive discussions and hear directly from communities that are driving systems transformation. A portion of your registration fees compensates the community representative participants directly for their time and wisdom. Additionally, a portion of workshop proceeds will be donated directly to the communities that participate in uplifing their stories during the training.
• Translate Knowledge into Action: Walk away with tangible tools to improve your grantmaking practices and create actionable, long-term plans for supporting lasting, systems change.
• Shape the Future of Philanthropy: Ensure your funding efforts contribute to meaningful transformations in low-resourced communities.

• Build Power Ecosystems: Discover how to support ecosystems that drive lasting shifts in systems and policies.
• Identify Leverage Points for Deep Change: Learn how to identify key leverage points for impactful change at different stages of the systems-change process.
• Establish Trust-Based Philanthropy: Learn how philanthropy can approach communities with humility so that those most affected by conditions are able to reframe problems as systemic and design effective solutions that create deep change, rather than maintain the status quo.
• Shift Narratives: Support communities to identify and dismantle harmful dominant discourses and conversely understand and amplify their own community-driven narratives that can lead to real systemic change.
• Meaningfully Engage with Low-Resourced Communities: Understand how the PHaRE Model equips you as a grantmaker to support and be accountable to the communities you serve, ensuring resources are used for deep, sustainable change.

• CEOs, board members, program officers, and staff members of grant-making organizations, including those from philanthropy and government.
• Grantmakers who wish to build community power in place-based and place-conscious settings.
• Grantmakers funding collaboratives in communities that face racial and income segregation.
• Grantmakers who wish to have a greater impact on systems and policy change.

If you do not fit the above profile but are interested in attending this workshop, please email us at [email protected].

Check out PHIL's website to learn more about this event's lead trainers.

• Early bird rate: $825 (processing fees included in ticket price) when you register by the early bird deadline of January 16, 2025
• Regular rate: $950 (processing fees included in ticket price). Last day to register is February 6, 2025.
• Group discount: There is a 20% discount off the regular workshop rate for any group registering at least 2 or more participants

1. Setting the Stage
2. The Significance of Place
3. Case Study: Successful Community Driven Systems and Policy Changes
4. Break
5. Overview of the PHaRE Model
6. Homework & Closing

1. Welcome & The Practice of Reflection
2. Phase 1 of the PHaRE Model: Grantmaker Readiness
3. Break
4. Phase 2 of the PHaRe Model: Preparation for Transformative Change
5. Example from the Field
6. Homework & Closing

1. Welcome & Review of Homework
2. Phase 3 of the PHaRE Model: How Systems and Policies Change
3. Break
4. Phase 4 of the PHaRE Model: Leverage Points for Deep Change
5. Understanding Problems: The Community Lens vs. the Dominant Discourse
6. Inside/Outside Strategies
7. Example from the Field
8. Homework & Closing

1. Welcome & Review of Homework
2. Phase 5 of the PHaRE Model: Policy, Systems, & Environment Output
3. Example from the Field
4. Break
5. Applying the PHaRE Model Considering What We Have Learned
6. PHaRE Action Planning Tool
7. Closing

Please reach out to us at [email protected] to transfer your ticket to another person if you are unable to attend the workshop as previously expected. The same person must be present for all four workshop sessions.

Refunds are available, minus Eventbrite nonrefundable fees and a 10% fee for PHIL administration costs, as long as registrants contact us ahead of the cancellation deadlines listed in our FAQ below. Please review our FAQ for cancellation deadlines.

Please see our FAQ below for answers to frequently asked questions. If your question is not addressed, please reach out to the Population Health Innovation Lab at [email protected].

This workshop is an offering of the PHIL Collective. The PHIL Collective supports individuals, organizations, and communities dedicated to improving health, well-being, and equity by collaborating with diverse partners. Why? Because tackling any community challenge requires some serious teamwork to keep everyone rowing in the same direction, elbow-grease to change systems, and sprinkles of humor along the journey to keep everyone sane.

We hope you'll allow us to join you on your expedition to make the world a brighter place!

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