Contributed by Rajasvini Bhansali, Executive Director, IDEX - As grantmakers, it is important to take the opportunity to reflect on whether human rights grantmaking -- which attempts to address the root causes of poverty, injustice, and inequity -- actually reinforces or addresses powerlessness and exclusion among our grantees. There are a number of ways in which power and privilege are redistributed through the act of grantmaking.