About the GFCF and #ShiftThePower The GFCF works to strengthen, harness and demonstrate the value of community philanthropy as an essential element of community-led development and as a strategy for shifting power. Through small grants, technical support, peer exchange and evidence based learning, the GFCF helps to strengthen community philanthropy institutions around the world, so that they can fulfil their potential as vehicles for locally-led development, and as part of the larger global infrastructure for progressive social change. #ShiftThePower is a mobilizing force and movement of people and organizations around the world that seeks to highlight, harness, resource, legitimize and join up...

  Download the report Community is resource: Reimagining LGBTQI resourcing LGBTQI movements around the world are facing a defining moment. Hard-won rights are under attack, civic space is shrinking, and many communities are experiencing criminalization and violence. At the same time, external funding for human rights and development is becoming more fragile, with significant cuts, shifting priorities and growing constraints on international funding flows. And yet, this is not only a moment of loss. It is also a moment of possibility. Across contexts, LGBTQI communities continue to organise, care for one another, and mobilise resources — often quietly and under risk. Mutual aid, collective...