Resourcing Rural Organizing Infrastructure

In partnership with the Neighborhood Funders Group, Engage New York organized the New York State Rural Equity Summit in 2019 to explore how foundations could work together to develop an action agenda to promote equity in communities across the State. This convening resulted in Engage New York and Neighborhood Funers Group commissioning a landscape scan to understand what community organizing infrastructure looked like in our State and to inform our next steps. The landscape provided our network information that we are using to mobilize funders to shift how philanthropy is resourcing multiracial rural communities. The scan was published and shared at funder meetings and philanthropy conferences in 2020 and 2021, which resulted in NFG and our network to partner to develop a funder self-assessment tool and resource toolkit that is expected to be released in mid-2022.