AGAG Legacy Project
The AGAG Legacy Project (ALP) documents the history and contributions of the Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group (AGAG) to stimulate private philanthropic resources to benefit African communities. The Story of AGAG series explores AGAG's impact as a network where grantmaking practitioners formed a community of practice and explored the critical and sensitive issues that influenced their work.
AGAG Legacy Project
Story of AGAG - Creating Community
Creating Community is part of the Story of AGAG podcast series about the Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group. This episode features excerpts from interviews with a diverse group of 20 grantmaking practitioners who participated in AGAG's activities over the past 23 years.
Through their voices and reflections, we learn how and why AGAG emerged in 2000 and how global events and discussions about philanthropy practices and narratives about Africa influenced its evolution. Their candid comments reveal what made AGAG a unique, welcoming, and valued space where new and experienced grantmaking practitioners found a political and intellectual home that challenged them to learn from each other and grow.
Niamani Mutima, AGAG's executive director, conducted the interviews in the spring of 2022. The participants participated in the project as individual grantmaking practitioners and not as representatives of their current or former organizations.
Learn more about the people who participated in the interviews HERE
and the AGAG Legacy Project at www.africagrantmakers.org
Credits:
Created and produced by Talaya Grimes, T Muse Media, and Niamani Mutima, AGAG. The narration was written by Niamani Mutima.
The AGAG Legacy Project documents the work and contributions of the Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group.