The stories or narratives that bind movements for the long haul are those that come from the ground up and resonate with multiple generations of the communities impacted.
How to Build Stories with Staying Power
We Are Powerful Because We Are Many
In philanthropy, the focus is often on innovation. But often the most powerful approaches are community-based strategies that Black and Indigenous communities have used for centuries.
Making Land Back a Reality: An Urban Indigenous Land Trust Rises in California
In the San Francisco Bay Area, a Native movement has catapulted from a land occupation to preserve burial grounds into a growing Indigenous women-led land trust.
Successful Leadership Requires Women of Color to Be Financially Confident
Women leaders of color deserve the training required to be confident in financial matters.
Why Janiece Evans-Page’s Positionality as a Black Woman in Philanthropy Is So Important
As the CEO of the Tides Foundation, Janiece Evans-Page seeks to use her position to bring about change and open doors for others.
How Can We Keep Pace with a World Warming Past 1.5 Degrees Celsius?
A new survey and study indicate the world temperature may have already risen higher than the 1.5C pledge set by the Paris Climate Agreement.
Net Zero: How Far Have We Really Come?
“Net zero” emissions strategies have been lauded as a solution to the climate crisis, but companies are failing to live up to their promises.
Women of Color Leaders: Shifting Power Dynamics within the Board–Executive Relationship
An upsetting number of women of color in leadership positions have, over the past two years alone been fired or forced out of their organizations, or “chosen” to leave, or are confronting tense-to-hostile relationships with their boards around their leadership and stewardship. There is a power struggle at play—an old guard having to make way for a new guard—and backlashes are ensuing.
Building a Reparative Organization and Nation
Our organizations exist to achieve important goals, and when we’re consumed by painful turmoil internally, it becomes increasingly impossible to focus on those goals. To meet these challenges of our time, we must work together across difference.
Jewish Academics Push Back on Claims of Anti-Semitism in Student Protests
A persistent movement of Jewish academics rejects claims that recent protests are anti-Semitic.
Reparations Requires Changing the System
Effectively reducing the racial wealth gap requires more than checks to individuals, it requires changing the racialized economic system that created the gap in the first place.
Kinship over Transaction: How Bolivians Meet Community Needs
The solidarity economy in Bolivia is deep, highly developed, and culturally grounded. It has much to teach US solidarity economy organizers.