Hannah is based in Manchester, UK and has worked in philanthropy, community activation, field building, and disability rights.
She's held various roles with one of the UK's largest funders over the past eight years, including designing and developing a wide range of funding programs and managing an extensive portfolio of complex and systemic grants.
Hannah is also the founder of the Participatory Grantmaking Community, which has grown to include over 1,500 funders seeking to understand and embed approaches to grantmaking that devolves decision-making power to the communities they aim to serve.
She is a big lover of frogs and, over lockdown, spent time cultivating a tiny garden pond so it could become a home to lots of the neighborhood frogs.
Main Quote
Nothing is permanent. Everything is movable. And if you don't like it, change it.
Additional Quotes
What rituals do you build into transitions? What does a good goodbye look like? Whether that's personal, private, with your friends and family, your whole work team.
I have also made the decision to step back from that space to enable it to thrive through its myriad of volunteers that support it, and the amazing accountability circle that the community itself has elected to kind of steer the entity into whatever iteration that is next.
To connect with Hannah or learn more about her work:
Hannah's piece
Participatory Grantmakers community
Resources mentioned:
To take the Workplace Transition Archetype Quiz
To learn more about Leaving Well
This podcast is produced by Sarah Hartley
