Community Co-Design: Shifting Power to Those Closest to the Solutions

Corporate partnerships and philanthropy too often flow past the communities they are meant to serve. Social Good Solutions has spent over a decade helping funders move from equity statements to equity infrastructure, but only when decision-making power shifts alongside resources. In this session, SGS Founder Kaci Patterson, Dina Walker (Co-Chair, Black Equity Fund Inland Empire), and Dr. Ange-Marie Hancock, Executive Director, Kirwan Institute, The Ohio State University will share replicable co-design tools, participatory grantmaking models, and power-sharing governance frameworks that have directed over $86 million toward Black-led organizations in California. Attendees will leave with concrete frameworks they can adapt immediately.