Kelley Buhles

Research Collaborator

Kelley Buhles has been a contributor to the research process since 2017, through participating in numerous interviews, virtual co-learning events with fellow breakout actors, and through reviewing draft content for the book manuscript Beloved Economies.

Kelley Buhles

Kelley is a practitioner of participatory grantmaking, community-led funding models and integrated capital. She works with funders to design and embed participatory practices into their grantmaking and investing in order to transfer power to the communities receiving funding, creating collaboration and community in the process.

Kelley envisions a world where power and wealth are shifted to communities. She believes that philanthropic capital has a reparative role to play, both for donors and communities, in the transition to a regenerative economy. She is interested in creating and supporting collaborative governance and financial models that center community wealth building.