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Social justice organizations thrive with longer, larger, and more flexible grants.
In 2015, the Ford Foundation launched its Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD) initiative, a now $2-billion dollar commitment aimed at reimagining philanthropy and centered on trusting grantees.
Firelight, a production company that makes documentary films by and about communities of color, was one of BUILD’s first grantees. Marcia Smith, President & Co-Founder, shares how BUILD allowed Firelight to create a strategic plan for their long-term financing.