Decentralize Your Dollars: Incorporating Participatory Grant Making into Resource Allocation Decisions

Abstract

Participatory grant making is a concept that can support decentralized decision making, shared power, and racial equity in Extension programming. The underlying philosophy of participatory grant making is to empower individuals and communities with flexibility and support to make collective decisions about financial resources. In this article, we draw on our experiences and provide concrete examples to demonstrate the power of this model for improving Extension programming and internal procedures. We conclude that the concept could be adapted for an array of financial decision-making settings to help Extension stay relevant and rooted in the communities we serve.

Disrupting the Practice: Antiracist Participatory Antidotes to Combat White Supremacy Manifestations in Community-Based Participatory Research

“…We acknowledge that it is easy to slip back into conventional methods of research and that we must work to be vigilant in our practices while also learning new ways to build in anti-racist practices. The next steps that our team will take include incorporating the use of asset-based language (Mancoske, 2011), ethical storytelling (Voices of Witness: Amplifying Unheard Voices, n.d.), and participatory grantmaking (Harden et al, 2021) into our research processes, as we strive to continuously improve and integrate principles of equity into our PR research practice.…”

Selecting methods of agricultural extension to support diverse adoption pathways: a review and case studies

“…In smart-farming contexts, the absence of effective interaction and knowledge flows among these groups has been associated with poorer outcomes, yet such interactions have proved difficult to support (Knierim et al 2019). Farmers' variable interest in being engaged in the research and development process has been identified as an issue (Dawson and Goldberger 2008;Lyon et al 2010); however, multi-actor approaches, when combined with training, were found to improve farmers' ability to access and use precisionagriculture and climate-forecasting tools (Halbleib and Jepson 2015;Stitzlein et al 2020;Harden et al 2021) and farmers perceived that direct links with researchers were of greater benefit than was access to decision support models alone (Carberry et al 2002). In this study, farm advisers are suggested to have an important role in leading 'what-if' discussions with farmers and in helping in the interpretation of data and outputs of models (Carberry et al 2002).…”