Weekly Reads
“[Different fights for justice intersect], especially for Black queer and trans practitioners. ... I don’t even know how to do racial justice separate from queer justice separate from environmental justice. My whole life is impacted by all of those things on a daily basis, how could I be in these separate movement spaces that are only dealing with one aspect of that?” [more]
Emanuel H. Brown, Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom, for Borealis Philanthropy
“Unrestricted grants are an amplifier (and a huge responsibility). Restricted grants make amazing work possible, but can cause us to chase after the priorities of funders and set our sights too low rather than standing firm in what our experience tells us is the right path to achieving our mission. We, as nonprofits, have lamented the dearth of unrestricted funding, but hand-wringing doesn’t lead to change. We have a responsibility to our stakeholders to do what we can to change this dynamic.” [more]
Lysa Ratliff, KABOOM!, for the Center for Effective Philanthropy
“It is in reaching out across our comfort zones that we grow, learn, and build the kinds of connections we need to move forward to a more just society. Reparative philanthropy is about forging those connections. It is about recognizing wrongs that have happened, and acknowledging the necessity of returning resources to communities on whose backs those resources were built. It is about putting in the work to build and sustain relationships, and in holding the truth that we are all interconnected and interdependent.” [more]
Miki Akimoto, National Center for Family Philanthropy
“[E]mbracing community power building required the foundation to rethink its grantmaking policies and practices. The timeline for community power building required more multiyear grants. The focus on organizational capacity building meant that core support for grantees had to be increased—they could not rely on project-specific grants alone.” [more]
Frank Farrow, Center for the Study of Social Policy, and Hanh Cao Yu and Robert Ross, The California Endowment, for Stanford Social Innovation Review
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