When Innovation Lives in Communities—but Funding Doesn’t: How to Resource Community-Rooted Innovators

Last week, I shared this article called When Funders Mistake Big for Better: Why Community Innovators Stay Underfunded.

It was prompted by feedback from many who questioned why, when we say we care about innovation, communities, and localizing the SDGs, so few of the smaller, hardworking, creative, social, and systems entrepreneurs qualify for public, private, or philanthropic funding.

Part 1 unpacked why it was happening. This week is about suggestions for what could be done to fix it—drawing on… More Posted on 02-04-26