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From Learning to Action: A Foundation’s Journey to Paying Shuumi Land Tax

From Learning to Action: A Foundation’s Journey to Paying Shuumi Land Tax

Learn by doing. You don’t have to have it all figured out perfectly to take the first step.
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If we are not prepared to govern, we are not prepared to win

If we are not prepared to govern, we are not prepared to win

A just transition to a deep democracy expands our imaginations for what is possible
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Dana Kawaoka-Chen
It’s Tax Season! Philanthropy, let’s Pay Shuumi

It’s Tax Season! Philanthropy, let’s Pay Shuumi

Here’s one meaningful way we can redistribute wealth and support the return of Indigenous land
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Shared Decision-Making toward a Just Transition

Shared Decision-Making toward a Just Transition

Democratizing power through shared governance
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Rosita Lucas
Want to honor women’s hxstory? Invest in a Feminist Economy.

Want to honor women’s hxstory? Invest in a Feminist Economy.

On Tuesday night, six Asian women transitioned into ancestorhood — women whose intimate and feminized labor put food on the table. Their…
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Sydney Fang (she/they)
An End to Philanthropy, for the Love of Humanity

An End to Philanthropy, for the Love of Humanity

Notes of what we might find on the other side of the portal
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Mario Lugay
Leadership Legacy

Leadership Legacy

By Dana Kawaoka-Chen and Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
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Reflecting on our first 10 years, Part 3: Innovation and experimentation

Reflecting on our first 10 years, Part 3: Innovation and experimentation

Ten years ago, a group of Bay Area foundation program officers with deep ties to social justice movements came together to form a network…
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The Glorious Pull of Political Openings

The Glorious Pull of Political Openings

Notes on Community Organizing in the time of COVID
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Mario Lugay
Reflecting on our first 10 years, Part 2: A Just Transition for Philanthropy

Reflecting on our first 10 years, Part 2: A Just Transition for Philanthropy

When Justice Funders was founded 10 years ago as the Bay Area Justice Funders Network, the philanthropic sector had been having…
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Reflecting on our first 10 years, part 1: Following the lead of movements

Reflecting on our first 10 years, part 1: Following the lead of movements

2020 has been a turbulent year, to say the least. A global pandemic and its resulting economic fallout for people of color, historic…
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How Philanthropy Gets to Transformation: The Human Experience of Change

How Philanthropy Gets to Transformation: The Human Experience of Change

There is hope in this moment, and NOW is the time.
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Can philanthropy relinquish enough power and control to support BIPOC communities in governing…

Can philanthropy relinquish enough power and control to support BIPOC communities in governing…

Doing so requires a radical expansion of the imagination and an investment in community self-determination.
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Philanthropy’s role in dismantling white supremacy and anti-Blackness toward a Just Transition

Philanthropy’s role in dismantling white supremacy and anti-Blackness toward a Just Transition

Concrete actions for philanthropy to get us closer to a different future.
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A Philanthropic Commitment to Dismantling White Supremacy and Anti-Blackness Must include Support…

A Philanthropic Commitment to Dismantling White Supremacy and Anti-Blackness Must include Support…

Philanthropy has a moral obligation to support the systemic changes that reverse and repair centuries of harm.
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Dismantling White Supremacy & Anti-Blackness in Philanthropy

Dismantling White Supremacy & Anti-Blackness in Philanthropy

We need to acknowledge the ways in which our institutions and our field at large have perpetuated these systems of oppression.
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