Sharpening Our Strategy Through a Learning Framework
ZFF’s grantmaking strategy is designed as an adaptive approach that will evolve in response to community needs and changing circumstances. Our learning agenda is intended to surface lessons that can help sharpen our strategy and approach over time. Identifying themes across the work of multiple grantees, this approach recognizes that there are many contributions to complex systems change.
The Learning Questions That Will Guide Our Evolution
A Learning Agenda is a set of questions that are most relevant to our goals and strategies. The questions guide our grantmaking with the understanding that the answers will lead to more responsive partnerships and ultimately greater community impact.
Diversify art and cultural expressions to expand people’s horizons
How does the community ensure that an increase in funding for the arts leads to a more diverse arts and culture sector?
What is the relationship between public funding and power building efforts among arts organizations across the three counties?
What types of collaboration between and among arts organizations leads to greater stability and opportunities for growth?
How are arts and culture being used to advance safety and belonging?
Build power, especially among those that have been excluded, historically and structurally, from resources and decision-making
What does it take to effectively build and sustain power among marginalized communities in Contra Costa, San Francisco, and Alameda Counties?
How are organizing and advocacy efforts focused on our priority areas best connected to other issues/needs?
What practices, structures, and supports best enable people to exercise power?
Transform public systems to invest in services and supports that reflect the strengths and meet the needs of the community
What will it take to support and empower decision makers to affect change from within the system?
What are the conditions that enable immigrants and others with lived experiences to effectively engage in/impact systems transformation?
What system transformations are needed to ensure people have access to the services they need when they need them?
What is needed to make space for imagination in systems work?
What is needed to ensure immigrants and other marginalized populations have equitable access to publicly funded services and can utilize them without fear of retribution?
What interventions at the county-level remove the barriers that block access to public services?
Promote Shared Experiences, Ally-ship, and Collective Healing so that individuals and communities with different life experiences find common purpose, build trust, and have culturally relevant opportunities to heal
What kind of individual, collective, and organizational healing is needed to support the work of safety and belonging and arts and culture?
What are effective strategies to support bridging and belonging among communities?
What are the ways narrative change can advance our goals?
Under what conditions do bridging efforts foster shared power among communities?
In what ways does the use of arts and culture, with intent and vigor, foster opportunities for bridging among different communities and/or advance organizational strategies and goals?
Our Grantees Are Partners in Learning
The Learning Framework identifies themes across the work of many grantees, understanding that ZFF’s funding and supports are just one contribution to the complex systems change we strive to achieve.
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