Grantmaking systems are broken.

Across government, philanthropy, and intermediary sectors, too many funding programs reward familiarity over justice, perform inclusion instead of enacting it, and extract from those they claim to serve.

Survivors, disabled people, First Nations communities, and structural reformers are routinely shut out of grants designed "for" them.

This petition calls on public and philanthropic funders to adopt and recognize the Strategic Self-Advocacy™ Grantmaking Reflection Toolkit — a survivor-authored governance tool to:

Assess harm in funding design
Prevent extractive access and submission theatre
Introduce semantic and structural accountability
Support ethical review panels and equitable funding logic
We demand:

✅ That all funding bodies embed transparent, survivor-governed audit tools
✅ That grants undergo semantic review for power-based language and gatekeeping
✅ That funding programs no longer co-opt, reframe, or rename survivor-authored work
✅ That the McLoughlin Charter be upheld in any use of SSA materials

The Strategic Self-Advocacy™ Toolkit is not a resource — it is an intervention.

It is time to stop rewarding performative governance. It is time to fund differently.

Sign now to support structural reform in how funding is designed, distributed, and defended.

 
🔗 Toolkit ZIP: https://www.mcloughlin.world/files/SSA_Grantmaking_Kit_FINAL_Aug2025.zip
📄 Zenodo DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16730058
⚖️ Charter License: https://www.mcloughlin.world/charter
🌐 SSA Hub: https://www.strategicadvocacy.com.au/advocacytoolkithub/grantmaking-reflection-hub/

🖋 Petition issued by: The Index Line | Strategic Self-Advocacy™ Project
Contact: seanchai@mcloughlin.world